Best Instant Pot Cookbook for Vegans in 2020

This is the debut cookbook from the popular "Rainbow Plant Life" blogger Nisha Vora. As the name of the blog might suggest, this book contains colorful, healthy, and delicious vegan recipes explicitly tailored for the Instant Pot pressure cooker. Along with advice on how to get the most out of your machine, there are more than 90 recipes, including inspiration for tasty breakfasts, guides to creating hearty, healthy mains, and decadent desserts, including our favorite — Double Fudge Chocolate Cake.

With a focus on the time-saving abilities of an Instant Pot pressure cooker, Kathy Hester offers a clever line in layered vegan entrees and sides, such as herbed French lentils with beets and pink rice, all of which are cooked together. There are also more traditional one-pot recipes with a focus on beans and lentils — ingredients that cook in half the time in a pressure cooker. There's also a basics section in which Hester shows you how to save time and money on homemade staples.

Described as an ideal first cookbook for vegans who've just invested in a new Instant Pot, "Veggie Queen" Nussinow takes you through the pressure cooker basics, including how to use the appliance safely and effectively. As far as recipes go, this collection is extensive, with over 150 different meals, dishes, staples, and sides. Nussinow takes inspiration from world cuisine and adds flavor with herbs and spices, rather than salt and oil, so if you're more adventurous with your flavors and techniques, you should get a lot out of this book.

This comprehensive cookbook begins by teaching you all about the vegan diet and philosophy, goes on to explain in useful detail all about the Instant Pot and its features and functionality. Then it offers up no less than 600 vegan Instant Pot recipes. With a focus on veganism for health reasons, all the recipes have nutritional information, prep time, cook time, and the number of servings. Obviously, you can pick and choose recipes that take your fancy, but there is also a handy 21-day meal plan included.

Fields promises you filling, nutritious meals in under an hour and with little mess or cleaning up. With a guide to which pressure cooker will best suit you, this book will take you from beginner to pressure cookin' winner and offers some handy cooking time charts. There are sections on beans and grains, soups and stew, one-pot meals, sides, sauces and dips, and desserts. If you're stuck in a rut, Fields should inspire you with some really interesting ingredients, such as jackfruit, miso, Anasazi beans, amaranth, and farro.

From certified dietitian and weight loss expert Alec Norton comes this collection of over 70 creative vegan recipes with options for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts. The "creative" claim is not just a boast; there are recipes for out-there options that really work, such as coconut rice pudding (for breakfast!), kimchi pasta, lasagna soup, garlic pumpkin seeds, and vegan monkey bread. With clear, easy to follow instructions from Norton, there are also photographs of most of the recipes so you can really get excited about what you're about to create.