Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond

I have Vegan Richa’s other cookbooks. I collect them. They’re filled with delicious recipes and beautiful photos. But I have flagged every other page of THIS book to make the recipes. I bought this book because I have an instant pot and want to use it more. Richa has many blender/IP recipes on her blog that I have made with much success and my meat-eating husband cannot get enough of them. I love her basic section where she gives you simple and easy recipes for stuff like Worcestershire (pronounced wu-stuh-sher, Richa ;)) sauce, curry powder, garam masala, cashew cream etc. All the recipes make 4 servings and have soy-, nut-, and gluten-free options. She also doesn’t use a lot of oil and I never have a problem reducing the amount or using broth instead, when I need to. I love her aloo gobi, baingan barta, wide variety of lentil and bean stews and soups, dals, etc. There are also non-South Asian dishes like scrambled eggs, pastas, meatloaf, and a nice selection of desserts, too. I can’t wait to eat my way through this book, Richa’s best yet!!

Richa's recipes are very easy to follow and recreate. I don't have time or desire to mess with food presentation, I just want good food. And this is GOOD FOOD. This weekend I used some Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ to make her BBQ Lentils with Baked Potato and Sriracha Mayo. When I was making up the lentils and then the mayo, I tasted both individually. And they were good. But when it all went together the result was AMAZING. We all exclaimed right out loud at the table! I find many of her recipes are like this....she KNOWS how to combine flavors and foods that REALLY work together. Plus, don't be daunted by a spice you haven't heard of or a meal you haven't tried. These recipes are not far out, and you don't need to be a cooking expert to understand how to make them. They are very much within easy reach for anyone to make. Looking forward to more exploration of the cookbook!

Richa Hingle has perfected the art of Instant Pot cooking times and flavors, making this cookbook a sure thing when it comes to cooking an easy and delicious dinner. I never make new recipes for dinner guests, but if I was going to, I'd pick one of these because I trust this cookbook! The spinach artichoke pasta was so heavenly, and the leftovers the next day heated up beautifully making it even more delightful. The creamy sauce was so delicious and decadent, yet left me feeling light after the meal and was chock full of protein and nutrients, and best of all, I only used one pot to make dinner so cleanup was a breeze. The arroz con pollo with soy curls was also out of this world - if you haven't cooked with soy curls yet, this cookbook is an amazing place to start! They're also an awesome plant-based protein for people who aren't fans of beans or tofu, or just to mix things up. I find them super kid friendly, and the General Tso's soy curls are another recipe in this book that my kids LOVE. (Any can be subbed with tofu or chickpeas if you don't have or want to use them.) I have four different Instant Pot cookbooks and they can be hit or miss on timing sometimes, or on how well the flavors stand up to the pressure cooking. This cookbook is hands down one of the best I've ever used in terms of being easy, reliable, and delicious. I am a HUGE fan, and if I had one instant pot cookbook it would be this one. Richa Hingle is well known for delicious Indian cuisine and this cookbook includes some incredible options in that category while also having a range of casseroles and pasta dishes inspired by many other cuisine styles. It could not be more versatile. Highly recommend.

My passion in vegan whole food cooking and I have been trying recipes for 25 years. I have over 100 vegan cookbooks and try new recipes every week. Richa Hingle's Instant Pot cookbook is outstanding and head and shoulders above 99% of the vegan books published. I have tried about 10 recipes, mostly pasta/grain/vegetable dishes and soups. The recipes are very detailed and clearly written; no guess work as to what to do. Love it that the ingredients list measurements as well as by weight, as I prefer to cook by weight. Every recipe I have tried so far has not just been good, but outstanding! As I try new recipes from her book, my husband keeps saying that her version of a recipe is the best ever, whether it be mac & cheese, mushroom soup, stroganoff, etc. Her recipes are so flavorful and the seasonings are well balanced. I typically have to adjust seasonings for recipes from other books, but this one is perfection just as it is written. I pretty much am cooking from this book exclusively these days, as I know the recipes will turn out amazing. Thank you Richa!

some new stuff but basically a rehash of past books. she has great recipes, and very good advice. don't understand the obsession with instant pot these days, maybe because it is cheap. Breville and Fissler have much better pressure cookers. I have been pressure cooking for about 40 years, so am very familiar with it. also she seems to not be aware of the Oshawa cook pots that fit into a pressure cooker and are like her inserts and covers. they are excellent for beans and grains. ceramic with a cover. cooks anything with no interaction with the water. load the pot and put it in the pressure cooker which has water in it, so it cooks the pot contents with the water bath. best of the best. I really like Fissler the best, German high quality. Breville is easy is you want automatic cooking, with more control than other electric pressure cookers. I like to cook on induction for precise control of the Fissler presssure cooker.

I’ve been waiting for months for Vegan Richa to release this cookbook, and it was well worth the wait! It’s absolutely beautiful, and contains an eclectic collection of delicious sounding recipes, along with detailed descriptions of pressure cooking techniques. Clearly, a lot of time and effort went into writing this; I don’t know how she does it! I love using my Instant Pot because it’s quick and easy, so this is becoming my go-to cookbook for planning meals. So far, we’ve made the Baingan Bharta and Panch Phoran Dal….both huge hits! Looking forward to trying many more in the near future. Highly recommend this book if you have an Instant Pot or are thinking about getting one.

Vegan Richa did it again with an amazing cookbook. It is hard to top her other 2 but I love this one even more. The thought and detail that went into this book is incredible. I am vegan/gluten free and from what I’ve seen skimming through it I think all but 2 recipes are gluten free by default or have a gluten free option. That’s 148 recipes! I’ve never been able to choose from that many recipes in a book being v/gf. Almost all of them can also be soy free/nut free too. I’ve made 3 recipes so far and each one has been easy and amazing (butter chick’n, Cajun red beans, vegetable biyrani). About the first 1/3 or so of the book are Indian recipes, then sections for pastas, soups/stews, burgers, desserts, basics, and more. So much variety! Some of the recipes (especially the Indian ones) do call for some “specialty” ingredients such as cardamom pods, fenugreek, etc. I cook Indian and other cuisines calling for these ingredients often so I keep them on hand anyway but if you don’t you can easily find them on Amazon or at a specialty grocery store (it’s worth it) and I imagine you could omit what you don’t have in certain recipes. I can’t recommend this book enough! A game changer for me especially for busy weekday nights/meal prep!

I was excited to get this book and I was not disappointed! First, it's much bigger and has more recipes than I thought it would. It's also well-made and has pictures of almost every recipe so you can see how they should turn out. The recipes are clear and easy to follow. For one recipe, she noted that the IP might give a "burn" error and included a fix for what to do next, so I knew not to sweat it when my IP gave me that error. Dinner was not ruined. I went all out and made four recipes from the book for one meal: Large Batch Cashew Cream (I halved it), Large-Batch Butter Chicken Sauce (halved), Plain Naan (halved), and Malai Kofta (full recipe). I followed all the recipes as written. It was one of the best meals of my life. I can't recommend this book enough.

Es mi libro definitivo para la Instant Pot. Seguro vale para quienes tienen otras marcas de olla eléctrica o incluso stovetop, que es la que uso más para no gastar luz. Tiene verdaderas genialidades, signo de identidad típico de la creatividad de Richa. Adoro todas las opciones de sustituciones que da para las recetas. Sin duda esto es lo mejor que tienen las recetas de Richa, las sustituciones, no tienes que andarte quebrando la cabeza para hacer las recetas sin gluten o sin soja, ella tiene la respuesta para todo. No he visto libro más gluten free friendly y soy free friendly. Incluso es nut free friendly. Y hasta tiene sugerencias para sustituir ajo y cebolla. Tiene todas las recetas que quería que vinieran. Tiene pocos postres pero los que tiene son tan buenos que es suficiente. No lo puedo superar, de verdad, me encanta. Lo amo. Es el libro que recomendaría definitivamente. A gente vegana, vegetariana, omnívora que quiere consumir más alimentos de origen vegetal. A los neófitos en cocción a presión les va a resolver la vida pero a los que ya usan mucho la olla a presión como yo, también les va a gustar.

Geweldig, met mooie foto's en duidelijke instructies. Wel met suiker, olie en zout, (dus niet SOS vrij) en ook niet altijs whole foods, maar dat kan je zelf makkelijk oplossen. Verder creatief, met substituties en uitbereidingen of mogelijke aanpassingen. Tenslotte heel prettig: niet weer zo'n schrijver die zelf steeds op de foto's staat. Toch is Richa's persoonlijke touch prettig aanwezig in de teksten en met 1 foto achterin.

Ho tutti i libri di Richa e seguo il suo blog, aspettavo da anni queste ricette con l'instant pot e non hanno affatto deluso le mie aspettative: il libro è pieno di consigli e sostituzioni, è molto dettagliato, ben scritto, creativo e pieno di ricette da fare e rifare!

Bunch of ideas what to cook...and what to taste.

I love Vegan Richa's recipe. This book uses the instantpot. The squash soup where you cook the squash whole and unpeeled on the trivet above the rest of the ingredients is a firm favourite in our household. It's so easy and so delicious. There are some really different recipes. Not just the same recipes everyone else is producing.