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.
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