I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.
vegan friendly pressure cooker recipes
Most are naturally or wholly vegan while others have vegan options or can be made vegan by removing or substituting one ingredient (like cheese or yogurt).
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Large Batch Tomato Sauce -Pressure Cook 6 Pounds at Once!
Here's an easy and delicious way to get rid of 6 pounds of tomatoes in one fell swoop - you're going to be making LOTS of sauce.
Once I figured out...
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VIDEO: Zucchini & Sun-dried Tomato Sorgotto (Sorghum Risotto)
The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...
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SPICY & FRESH: North African-Inspired Lentil and Spinach Soup
This Ethiopian-style pressure cooker soup adds all of the spices at the beginning of the recipe to flavor the lentils from the inside out (can't get that from a can ; ). Fresh baby...
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Chickpea Curry Rice Bowl – One Pot Meal
Pressure cook a tangy and spicy curry right along with the brown rice in just one go by stacking the rice in the pressure cooker on top of the curry.
This recipe uses the "duplex"...
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1-minute Pressure Cooker Mulled Wine
A minute under pressure is all it takes to infuse wine with fruit and spices – then serve or keep it warm for a party. Mulled wine is the perfect winter’s drink for a festive party or…
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Sweet Potato No-Soggy Mash Technique (and recipe ; )
Following the traditional white-potato pressure cooker mash method (boiling and mashing in the cooking liquid) will get you a soggy sweet potato mash! That's because sweet potatoes,...
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Skinny Cream of Broccoli Soup – Easy Pressure Cooker Recipe
The creaminess of this soup is in the texture – not the ingredients! I use one my favorite soup-thickening tricks to make this soup light yet satisfying.
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Steamed Broccoli & Steamer Baskets
Steaming broccoli sounds simple, right? But, first, we need a steamer basket to steam them with!
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Turn Any Frozen Veggie Into a Pressure Cooker Stew
This technique will work with any frozen vegetable. There’s no measuring, slicing or dicing, just dump and go!
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Super-quick-pickled Green Peppers !
The pressure cooker pickles chilies in 60 seconds - it infuses the seasonings and spices evenly while bringing out their heat. Of course the chilies can be Jalapenos or any kind of hot...
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Black Bean & Lentil Chili – pressure cooker recipe
This pressure cooker chili is a one pot meal made with items you can find in any pantry. The black beans add depth and the lentils add a little spice – the mushrooms tie everything together into savory, satisfying dish.
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Pressure Cooker Steamed Brown Rice
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker’s steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
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Pressure Cooker Confetti Basmati Rice Recipe
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
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Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash – Sneaky Healthy Pressure Cooker Recipe!
Make this recipe with any kind of potato – leave the skin on for extra fiber and protein or peel it off before starting. It’s up to you. The pressure cooker will tenderize the skins so they’ll add color, but they will be barely noticeable texture-wise.
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Millet, Veggie and Lentil One Pot – recipe & strategy
Jill Nussinow (aka The Veggie Queen) shares her hip strategies for preparing a satisfying vegan one pot meal, along with a recipe from her latest cookbook: Vegan Under Pressure - Perfect...
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Easy Pressure Cooker Corn on the Cob + Tips!
Want intensely-flavored corn on the cob with plump kernels waiting to burst open with every bite? Pressure cook it for a fast flavor-packed meal!
Pressure cooking corn is faster than...
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Basic Recipe: Pressure Cooker Quinoa
I came up with the 1-minute Quinoa pressure cooker method five years ago after seeing wildly different cooking times cited by other experts. I didn't like ending-up with mushy gruel-like...
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No Pressure Salsa Recipe
This salsa can be used to dress your favorite Mexican Pressure Cooker recipe. This salsa is not watery or runny I'll show you how to do it!
It's very easy to make and can be prepared up...
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Pressure Cook the PERFECT bowl of oatmeal
Pressure cooking oatmeal is convenient and hands-off. The pressure will squeeze the creaminess right out of the cereal making a cozy and nutritious breakfast. Here's my technique for the...
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No Pressure Guacamole Recipe
Ever have guacamole turn brown? It might taste the same but it's pretty difficult to look at and enjoy if it's not bright green. Here are my tips for keeping your guacamole green, bright and...
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Candied Lemon Peels – new pressure cooker technique!
Another pressure cooker first that will save you loads of time (10 min pressure cooking vs. 60-90 simmering) and preserve lemon peels to use as home-made candy or to use in your...
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Pressure Cooker “Baked” Apples – really easy!
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took forever to figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
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Sage & Nutmeg Butternut Squash Autumn Risotto
This pressure cooker risotto coaxes flavor from butternut squash without the laborious step of pre-roasting it in the oven, without a rich stock to muddy the flavors and, most...
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Asparagus Spring Risotto & making micro stock
Asparagus is nature's welcome mat to spring vegetables. They're nutty, greeny, nutritions and require very little prep.
Personally, my family adores the wild asparagus but it's very hard...
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Sweet Potato and Black-eyed Peas One-pot-meal
The black-eyed peas boil in the base of the pressure cooker, while their cooking liquid steams the potatoes above – making this a delicious and healthy one pot meal!
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Hot Hot, Hot Chocolate Fondue!
Sometimes you've just got to try something to believe it. Melting chocolate in the pressure cooker is one of those things.
Using the pressure cooker to melt chocolate goes against...
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
Sometimes, a boiled potato won’t do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
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Quick Cranberry Sauce from Dried Berries
The pressure cooker is used to quickly re-hydrate the cranberries with a squeeze of lemon to bring them back to life- the result is thick, tart, and lightly firm cranberry sauce.
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...