The Essential Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook: Fresh and Foolproof Plant-Based Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker|Hardcover (2024)

Whether you are vegan or looking to integrate more meatless meals into your life, the Instant Potis here to help. This electric, programmable pressure cooker is an incredibly versatile and usefulappliance. In this cookbook, you’ll learn how to use it to make mod- ern and delicious plant-basedrecipes that everyone will love. These introductory pages will teach you the basics, and therecipes that follow will provide straightforward, specific instructions to get you pres- surecooking right away.

As anyone who has used an Instant Pot can attest, it’s an astonishingly convenient, time-savingappliance, light-years ahead of previous generations of stove-top pressure cookers. It’shyperefficient and whisper-quiet when foods are cooking under pressure. There’s no need to standaround and tend to an Instant Pot. Once a pressure cooking program begins, you can walk away untila series of beeps tell you the food is ready.
Pressure cookers are great for throwing together one-pot soups and stews and for prepping batchesof beans and grains for a busy week ahead. There are some unique advantages for vegans, too. Youcan make batches of nondairy yogurt, seitan, and sausages from scratch, and even a one-ingredientcaramel sauce (page 139) that will change your dessert game for good (if you can stop yourself fromeating it all up by the spoonful, that is).

In the seven main chapters of this book, you’ll find recipes for every meal of the day, from a widerange of cuisines. There are vegan takes on American-style com- fort foods (think mac ’n’ cheese,chili and cornbread, and sour cream mashed potatoes), internationally inspired dishes (such ascurry, tabbouleh, and cassou- let), and even some seriously impressive desserts, like browniesundaes and cheeseless cheesecakes.

The Instant Pot is not only versatile, it helps you save money, too. Grocery shopping can be expen-sive, especially when you’re seeking out high-quality organic foods. Prepared foods dominate thesuper- market more and more these days, and not only are they expensive, they are often filled withprocessed ingredients. Going as unprocessed as possible is truly the best way I know to lower agrocery bill and eat healthfully. Cooking with in-season produce, dried beans and grains, andbulk-bin pantry staples costs far less in the long run, and the Instant Pot is a great tool to ease and speed up the preparation of healthful foods.

Whether you’re an Instant Pot beginner or just look- ing for a refresher course, read the next fewpages to learn about all of the Instant Pot’s buttons, bells, and whistles. A whole world of modernpressure cooking awaits you.