Summer Instant Pot Vegetable Dinner

A Plant-Based Summer Vegetable Plate

Growing up in the south, you are bound to eat a vegetable plate. In fact, they are at almost every home-style restaurant. There’s a catch, though – most of the choices are not vegetarian, much less plant-based!

There’s hidden animal fat in beans, bacon in green beans and sometimes even potatoes. So don’t be fooled by the term vegetable plate and ask if things are cooked with meat when you’re eating out in the south.

Check out my other Instant Pot Cookbook, Gluten-Free, Vegan Cooking in Your Instant Pot.

What is the Pot in Pot Method?

You may have used a separate smaller pot in your Instant Pot liner already. You do this if you’re steaming a cake or cooking a cheesecake. Both of those involve putting one pan on top of the rack that came with your IP.

Cooking More than One Dish with a Pot in Pot Method

So unlike cooking cakes, we going to cook up to 4 veggies at one time. There are several ways of doing this including using oven safe Pyrex pans as I show you in the video below.

Stackable Stainless Steel Instant Pot Pans

In the Summer Instant Pot Vegetable Dinner video I used a 3 qt Mini Stackable Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Insert Pans with Sling Handle to stack on top of the corn and potatoes in my 6-quart Instant Pot.

The 6-quart stackables I have fill up the pot and are perfect if you want to cook dal in one and rice in the other or other 2 recipe meals.

You’ll need to pay attention when you choose pans to make sure they will fit in the size electric pressure cooker that you have (3, 6, or 8 quart.)

Watch the video below to see all the different ways there are to layer this dish.

Important Pot in Pot Layering Tips

• Always have the longest cooking item in the bottom.
• If all your food is in a pot in pot you will need to increase the time.
• Put the item that needs the least cooking at the top.
• To slow cooking even more on an item you can wrap it with parchment paper, then with foil, and put it in a pot with a lid.

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