Just acquired - An Instant Pot

[Werner1950]

I just came home with a Cuisinart Instant Pot. Now I am looking for pointers. I think the first thing i will try is to cook some dry non-presoaked chick peas. Because the manual says I can!

[patty]

I love mind. And making chickpeas by scratch, how great is that! Lindsay Nixon gave it a great review.
https://happyherbivore.com/2015/01/pres ... ot-review/

Aloha, patty

[Werner1950]

The instruction booklet tells me in cooking beans, to use two teaspoons of oil to prevent foaming. Do anyone do this? Is foaming a problem?

[patty]

I have never added oil and never had a problem. The Cuzinart isn't my first pressure cooker and I have never added oil to anyone. Enjoy!!!

Aloha, patty

[Risto]

Here's a Moroccan Sweet Potato and Lentil Stew, from the Instant Pot website. I made it in a stovetop pressure cooker and found it tasty:

https://instantpot.com/moroccan-sweet-p ... ntil-stew/

Chef AJ's Red Lentil Stew (haven't tried this one yet but everyone seems to like it):

http://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/ ... til-chili/

[Timaca]

I have an Instant Pot. I live at 7000 feet in elevation. It takes me much longer to cook beans than the manual suggests (even after adjusting for altitude). I do have to add oil if I cook Lima beans or yellow split peas....when I tried green split peas I didn't have that same issue (have no idea why). I use 2 teaspoons oil. If I don't use the oil, it does foam up with those two legumes and squirts out the lid and makes a royal mess. Tomorrow, to avoid the oil issue I am cooking Anasazi beans in my IP (those beans don't need oil) and the Lima beans in my crock pot (won't need oil there).

I love my IP! I use it every day, several times a day. I always cook sweet potatoes and yams in it (daily) and legumes often.

There are a few recipes on my blog....I'm working on one now (writing it up) for a yellow split pea dal / soup. I think I ate 3 bowlfuls tonight!

Here's the recipe page on my blog. A few of the recipes do have oil, you can ignore those recipes of course. I hardly use it anymore....

Wishing you happy cooking times with your new pressure cooker! I love mine!

[Risto]

Here's the recipe page on my blog.

Thanks for the link! I'm going to try the red lentil dal (no pressure cooking in that recipe).

I'd just been reading about metrication and lack thereof in the US and UK, and was very impressed by your website's automatic conversion to metric units. It doesn't seem to quite work right, though. I selected metric for the pressure cooker pea soup recipe, and it lists "331.22 mL dried peas", "828 1/17 mL vegetable broth", "7/10 teaspoon salt". The advantage of using milliliters is supposed to be that you don't need decimals, much less fractions, or non-metric customary units like teaspoons. That recipe could read simply "330 mL peas, 830 mL broth, 4 mL salt" (a piece of software can easily do the rounding).

[Yomom]

Werner, I do not add oil to Instant Pot recipes. Foaming has never been a problem for me with split peas.

[Werner1950]

Thanks for that info. I made our first dish with the Pressure Cooker.. hummus from scratch. No soaking necessary. That was amazing!

[VeggieSue]

Jill Nussinow, a chef who has been a presenter at the McDougall ASW's and 10 Day program, has 2 pressure cooker books out and IIRC both are all McDougall-safe recipes. If you do a search on-line for Jill's bean chart, that one is the most accurate. She also has a few videos on YouTube.

There are also a few Facebook communities devoted to eating our way using the Instant Pot, and Jill is also active in them:

Pure McDougall Instant Pot Users
https://www.facebook.com/groups/563717077065568

Plant Based Instant Pot People
https://www.facebook.com/groups/790787064328258

InstaPot users group- G-BOMBS - the nuts and bolts of Eating to LIVE (Obviously an Eat to Live/Fuhrman community, but the recipes are 100% McDougall/MWLP safe and has LOTS of IP information, including discount codes, files of cooking charts, etc.)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/InstaPotUsersETL


Instant Pot Vegan Recipes (not all WFPB)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/InstantPotVeganRecipes


Also, look for Chef AJ's Chef & the Dietitian shows on YouTube and her FoodyTV shows. She does many with the InstantPot, and all of those are McD/MWLP safe:

Chef & Dietitian
https://www.youtube.com/user/therealchefaj

Healthy Living with Chef AJ - Foody TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6pK3tU1IgM&list=PLV696RfDO-rCJe6JrpHSsGXS7liNX9rCZ

[VeggieSue]

Forgot to mention Jill McKeever! She's a wacky gal who wears bunny ears and every time she says "Instapot!" she hollers "Woot Woot!"

She uses her Instant Pot a LOT and has many IP recipes on her Simple Daily Recipes website and YouTube channel:

http://simpledailyrecipes.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/SimpleDailyRecipes

She not only uses it to pressure cook but to saute, boil water, and slow cook - all the things the Instant Pot was made to do. She is 100% vegan (now) BUT not 100% whole foods or S-O-S free. I've heard that her early recipes contain some meat (but I've never seen them), but she's been converted since then. Once in a while oil will be in a recipe, and she uses tortillas with oil, meat analogs like Gardein strips, and products with white flour. But MOST of the recipes *are* McDougall safe.

[Werner1950]

Wow. This is a treasure trove of info. Thanks!

[Timaca]

I did post the oil question with beans in the Instant Pot G-Bombs facebook group mentioned above, and no one seemed to need the oil. I have seen it mentioned as being needed in some instructions, and I know for me, it does seem necessary for Lima beans and yellow split peas. Maybe it has something to do with the elevation I live at.

I can get around that to some extent....eg I cooked Lima beans in my crock pot today....and I have Anasazi beans going right now in the IP that are doing fine without the oil.

Have fun and let us know how you do!

[mike at the river]

Since pressure cookers cook at a very high temperature (over 212 F), are any nutrients lost?

[Timaca]

Here's the recipe page on my blog.

Thanks for the link! I'm going to try the red lentil dal (no pressure cooking in that recipe).

I'd just been reading about metrication and lack thereof in the US and UK, and was very impressed by your website's automatic conversion to metric units. It doesn't seem to quite work right, though. I selected metric for the pressure cooker pea soup recipe, and it lists "331.22 mL dried peas", "828 1/17 mL vegetable broth", "7/10 teaspoon salt". The advantage of using milliliters is supposed to be that you don't need decimals, much less fractions, or non-metric customary units like teaspoons. That recipe could read simply "330 mL peas, 830 mL broth, 4 mL salt" (a piece of software can easily do the rounding).

Thanks for letting me know about the metric conversion. I'll let the programmer know!