Instant Pot Miracle Vegetarian Cookbook: More than 100 Easy Meatless Meals for Your Favorite Kitchen Device

by Urvashi Pitre

100+ all-new meatless recipes for the Instant Pot by the best-selling author of Indian Instant Pot and Instant Pot Fast & Easy 

Urvashi Pitre, author of best-selling cookbooks such as Indian Instant Pot Cookbook, The Keto Instant Pot Cookbook, and Instant Pot Fast & Easy, is back with her latest Instant Pot collection featuring 100 boldly flavored vegetarian and vegan recipes. Unlike with many other vegetarian cookbooks, you won't find esoteric ingredients like seitan, tempeh, and fake meats. Instead, the emphasis is on fresh, whole foods that everyone in the family will enjoy, even meat eaters, from Mexican, French, Greek, Thai, and Indian cuisines, to name just a few. The recipes have been impeccably tested, as are all of Pitre's recipes, so they will work right every time with a minimum amount of fuss. Dishes like Eggplant Parmigiana Pasta, Harissa Bean Stew, Butternut-Ginger Soup, and Hot Fudge Pudding Cake use whole, plant-based ingredients and come together for an indulgent and satisfying meal, making this an essential purchase for Instant Pot fans--vegetarian or not.

• ISBN10: 0358379334
• ISBN13: 9780358379331
• Publish Date: 9 November 2020 (first published 29 September 2020)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.com.au/9780358379331

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Instant Pot Miracle Vegetarian Cookbook is a new tutorial for the Instant Pot with a comprehensive selection of plant based recipes written and developed by Urvashi Pitre. Due out 29th Sept 2020 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it's 256 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

This is a nice lacto-ovo-vegetarian cookbook for instant pot cooks with a busy schedule. The layout is very basic and unfussy - easy to understand and accessible. The recipes are arranged by category: vegetables, lentils beans & legumes, rice & grains, eggs & cheese, desserts & drinks, and staples/sauces/spices (used in other recipes). Many of these are -hearty- dinner dishes that even my meat loving family really devoured (without complaining).

Ingredient measurements are supplied in American measurements only. There wasn't a conversion chart for metric measures included in the eARC provided for review. Nutritional information not included. Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in sidebars with the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made with easily sourced ingredients. Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex. The author has included a handy table in the back of the book which lists recipes by category also with specifications such as: egg-free, nut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and several others. Special classifications are also listed in each recipe heading.

The photography clear and abundant; most of the recipes are illustrated, and the photographs which are included are clear and well done.

This is a large collection of recipes and even allowing for the fact that some of them are similar to others in the same category, this will keep vegetarian cooking fans going for ages. These are simple "everyday" recipes which are anything but boring. We tried several dishes and all of them were tasty and well written. (We didn't try any of the bread-y or dessert recipes, but I found no glaring errors with a quick read-through).

We're definitely going to try more of these recipes. Well written book, tasty recipes.

Four stars. This is a solid recipe book which will be used. It would make a superlative housewarming gift to a friend or family member - college student, new graduate, newlyweds, kids flying the nest, etc. The instant pot is a phenomenally useful multi-purpose small appliance and everyone should have one (in my not so humble opinion - I use mine *every* day, more or less).

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.