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20 Vegan Instant Pot Recipes with no fake meats, no soy, no dairy. Instant Pot Vegetarian Recipes to cook up as meals. Vegan Gluten-free Soyfree.
Instant Pot is a 1 pot cooking appliance that can cook by pressure cooking, slow cooking, warming (yogurt or other fermentation), sauteing, steaming. It is programmable and has been getting popular in the last few years. I use Instant Pot whenever I need to pressure cook. I have been pressure cooking for many years as Indian food uses Pressure cooking for cooking the variety of beans and lentils used in the cuisine. Stive top cookers have been used in India for decades. Some of the old posts on the blog use a pressure cooker and are getting updated IP instructions over the next few months.
Instant Pot works out well to make 1 pot meals, set it and forget it and the meal is ready when needed, and works well for summer as it doesnt heat up the entire kitchen.
Here are a few of the popular IP recipes from the blog. Almost all also have Saucepan cooking options. For more Recipes see the Instant Pot Category. What are your favorite Instant Pot meals for Summer?
Kitchari – Mung Bean Brown Rice Stew – for a yellow mung dal kitchari, see my first book
Barbacoa Mushrooms , serve in tacos or make a bowl over lettuce, roasted veggies and avocado
Chana Saag – Chickpea Spinach Curry
Instant Pot Vegan Butter Chickin (soy curls and chickpeas!)
IP Lentil Sweet Potato Eggplant/Veggie Curry.
Mixed Veg Khichdi in a Jar for Instant Pot.
Eggplant Sambar– Split Pea soup with Tamarind and Eggplant.
Vegetable Biryani with Chickpeas
Dal Makhani – Buttery Black Lentils
Chickpea Sweet Potato Spinach Curry
Lentil Brown Rice Soup – spiced Kitchari
Lentil Veggie Dhansak (stew)
Vegetable Kolhapuri – Veggies in Coconut Sesame sauce
Black Eyed Pea & Cauliflower Stew
Kidney Bean Curry – Rajma
Jill’s Red Lentil Sweet Potato Burgers
These are great! I am bookmarking for later. Thank you!
Are these recipes for the 6qt or 3qt mini?
6 qt. i’ll add the info
Thank you for your recipe. Can you please tell me when we start the pressure mode in high for, say 11 minutes, after that should we enable keep warm mode? Or should we turn off the IP, and let the steam release naturally? I think I ended up keep it on keep warm for ~3-4 minutes, and let the steam release naturally, and the sweet potatoes and eggplant got very overcooked.
Also does the size of the pot matter for natural release time? I have a 6 QT pot, and I suppose it will take more time (since more volume) for natural release of steam. Do you think that will overcook the dish inside? Pardon my basic questions, I am very new to Instant Pot. Will definitely be checking out your other recipes! Thank you!
Once the cook time is done, press cancel, so that the pot doesnt stay warm and starts the natural pressure release. You can reduce the cooking time by 2 mins and once done, cancel the stay warm and release the pressure if it hasnt already released in 7 to 8 mins.
Thank you so much for that tip!
I got an IP for Christmas and have been slowly acquainting myself with it. This list of vegan recipes is just what I was looking for. Last week, I made your Lentil Sweet Potato Eggplant/Veggie Curry recipe and it turned out perfectly! Thanks for putting this list together. I look forward to trying another recipe from it soon 🙂
I just made my first IP dish- applesauce, Your recipes sound the Best of any I have seen on internet or books for vegan etc dishes…I like your tastes…we love Indian food! I’m sooooo super happy I found your site …thank you for sharing your recipes!
Awesome! Thank you Deb. Try the butter soycurls, sweet potato lentil soup or the lasagna soup i just posted last week.