Kathy Hester - The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot: 80 Easy and Delicious Plant-Based Recipes That You Can Make in Half the Time

80 EASY AND DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED RECIPES THAT YOU CAN MAKE IN HALF THE TIME KATHY HESTER BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EASY VEGAN COOKBOOK AND THE GREAT VEGAN BEAN BOOKThank you for buying thisPage Street Publishing Co. ebook. To receive special offers, bonus content, and info on new releases and other great reads, sign up for our newsletters. Or visit us online at us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. *Please note that some of the links referenced in this work are no longer active. *Please note that some of the links referenced in this work are no longer active.

This book is dedicated to Bill, Emma, and Claire, who were with me on that first amazing salt mine tour, and slid down the banister with me. Thanks for trying all the weird salt with open minds and big smiles.

Im Kathy Hester and I love my Instant Pot. Its my hope that youll be joining me in my addiction to it, too. A few years ago I had just finished writing The Easy Vegan Cookbook and I rewarded myself with a brand-new, shiny Instant Pot. The first thing I did was join a few Facebook groups that I mention at the end of this book.

I was amazed at just how active and helpful they were. It was wonderful to see how much people were cooking in their Instant Pots. I suggest you join a few, too, for the help and camaraderie. Plus, I may see you there from time to time! Not long after, I started using my Instant Pot for soups and stews and to cook dried beans from scratch. The more I used it, the more ideas I had for recipesincluding layering different dishes in the same Instant Pot to make a complete meal. There are several reasons to use an Instant Pot.

I like the fact there is a lot of hands-off time, like you get using a slow cooker. My friend Jill Nussinow loves pressure cooking in general because of the speed. She tends toward cooking a little longer and releasing the pressure manually, whereas I cook a little less and let the pressure release naturally. The food ends up perfect either way. Youll find that the Instant Pot will fit into your life quickly and you will wonder how you ever lived without it. One of my favorite things is that the pot you cook in is stainless steel.

That makes it easy to clean, and theres no icky coating that can leech into your food. There are so many options with your Instant Pot, plus you can still slow cook in it. Later in this section I go through all the cooking settings so youll be in the know. Its a slow cooker, pressure cooker, rice cooker and steamer all in one! The vegetables and grains tend to be less mushy when you pressure cook versus slow cook, and people with texture issues, like Cheryl, my grown-up picky eater, will enjoy that fact. In addition to the recipes in this book, you can see more of my recipes at HealthySlowCooking.com, which has all kinds of recipes, including ones for the Instant Pot. Ive also written several other vegan cookbooks, including: The Vegan Slow Cooker
The Great Vegan Bean Book
Vegan Slow Cooking for Two or Just You
OATrageous Oatmeals
The Easy Vegan Cookbook I just want to thank you for reading The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot and I hope it makes dinner easier!

Pressure cooking cooks things in less time.

An electric pressure cooker uses mostly hands-off cooking time, and that makes it a winner in my book. Pressure cooking cuts the cooking time significantly. But you have to remember when you read that it only takes 3 minutes to cook steel-cut oats, we are not counting the time to come up to pressure or the time to release the pressure so you can finally eat your oatmeal. But even though it takes longer than 3 minutes, the oats are still cooked in half the time from start to finish. I know some of you may be wondering whether Im giving up slow cooking. The answer is no.

I think slow cooking and pressure cooking both make our lives easier. Both have lots of hands-off cooking time and give us a much deserved break. So Ill be doing both for the foreseeable future. Slow cooking is great if you are more inclined to put together dinner before you go to work. Pressure cooking is very helpful if you like to cook when you get home from work. Either way, youll be saving tons of money and time eating at home.

I do think that pressure cooking is kinder to vegetables, and its easier for them to retain a perfect texture. There are ways to layer vegetables in different dishes or wrap in foil so that you can cook two different kinds of veggies to perfection at the same time. You will find that your Instant Pot is so versatile that you will be using it to cook up quick, last-minute meals, batches of soy yogurt and amazing three-part meals in one pot! The convenience of being able to throw some ingredients into your Instant Pot at the last minute and have a wonderful one-pot meal in less than 30 minutes cannot be beat.

Instant Pot is a brand of electric multi-cooker that happens to do all the things I need to do in the kitchen. It pressure cooks and slow cooks; has a built-in rice cooker, steamer; and can even saut. The 7-in-1-model even has a yogurt maker setting, too! Not bad for one appliance, right? I love the idea of having all these things in one.

It saves room in the kitchen and for most meals I only have one pot to clean. It saves a ton of work to saut in the same pan that you will finish your meal in. Other electric pressure cookers can be used to make these recipes. You may need to make some modifications though, since all of these recipes were only tested in the 6-quart (6-L) Lux or Duo models of the Instant Pot. Only some were tested in other electric slow cookers. At the time of writing, an 8-quart (8-L) Instant Pot is being developed; look for the most current information at HealthySlowCooking.com/VeganInstantPot.

All of the recipes in this book should still work in the 8-quart (8-L) and larger amounts may be used in addition to the ones suggested for the 6-quart (6-L) recipes. Please note that Instant Pot is the registered trademark of Double Insight Inc., and that Instant Pot was designed in Canada, with healthy living, green living and ethnic diversity in mind.