Peel and chop your potatoes and onion. Remove the woody ends from your asparagus spears. Be sure to leave the asparagus tips and chop each asparagus spear into thirds.

Set your Instant Pot to sauté setting and add your olive oil. Add potatoes, onions and chopped asparagus spears to the pot. Add garlic cloves and saute for two minutes.

Turn off the sauté function and add the vegetable broth and bay leaf.

Stir and scrape the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon to ensure no pieces of garlic, onion or asparagus are stuck to the bottom of the inner pot.

Close the Instant Pot Lid. Set the Instant Pot to pressure cook or manual setting and cook your soup for 15 minutes under high pressure.

Once the pressure cooking time has been completed, allow the pressure to naturally release for 10 minutes then quickly release the remaining pressure.

A quick release could result in the liquid spewing out the vent. So it is better to perform a natural release.

Once all the pressure has been released, open the Instant Pot lid and remove the bay leaf.

Transfer the soup mixture to a blender or food processor and blend into a nice creamy texture.

Alternatively, you can use an immersion blender and blend the asparagus soup directly in the Instant Pot. This is a quick, easy and less messy way to blend your asparagus soup.

Season your Instant Pot Asparagus Soup. Add salt and pepper and garnish with fresh herbs.