Instant Pot Vegan Chili With Quinoa And Sweet Potatoes

This is a great Freezer meal where you can throw all the ingredients in a freezer bag, dump it in the instant pot and cook! It is Vegan, Gluten Free,Dairy Free.This is a great Meatless meal especially for people who want to given being meatless a try. You know whats the best part of this Chili though? It’s a very forgiving dish, so don’t fret if you don’t have all the ingredients! Just skip them.

Ingredients for Instant Pot Vegan Chilli

Beans- Precooked Black Beans.You can either cook them yourself in the instant pot or use canned.I have tried it with both. You can also mix your beans - add pinto beans, red kidney beans or cannelloni beans.Diced Tomatoes- Use fresh tomatoes or canned.Quinoa- I have used white quinoa but fell free to use any color.Vegetables- Onions,Red Peppers,Celery,Sweet Potatoes & Garlic.You can add more veggies like Frozen corn or replace sweet potatoes with Butternut squash.Spices & Flavourings- The main flavours here are smoked chilli, Cumin,Cocoa and Cinnamon.You can use any smoked paprika you can find.You can also add jalapeños if you like your chili spicy.Toppings- This is think is very personal!But the usuals are Sour Cream or Yogurt,Cheddar Cheese,Cilantro, Avocados, Chips

How to make Vegan Quinoa Chili in Instant Pot

Step 1: Prep

Cut the onions, Celery and Red Pepper into small squares.If using canned beans, rinse the beans and discard the juices. Peel and Dice the sweet potatoes.

Step 2: Saute the onions,Red pepper and Celery

Heat the instant pot.When it says “HOT”, add olive oil.To this add onions,red pepper and celery. Saute till it’s Softened and soft.

Step 3: Dump everything in and Pressure Cook

Add the Sweet Potato, Quinoa, Tomatoes, Spices and water or broth.Close the lid and set the pressure for 10 minutes on HIGH.

Step 4 : Pressure Release

After the cooking time is over, let the pressure release naturally.This will take about 20-22 minutes. At this point the chilli would be a little watery but as it cools down, it will become thick.

Instant Pot Vegetarian Chili Recipe with Dry Beans

This recipe calls for already cooked beans.If you want to use dry beans you have two options Option 1: Pressure Cook 1 Cup beans with 3 cups of water and little salt.Select HIGH PRESSURE for 35 minutes with the pressure valve sealed. If you presoak the beans for 6-8 hours, reduce the pressure time to 25 minutes. Option 2: Skip adding the sweet potatoes and add rest of the ingredients.Pressure cook for 30 minutes on HIGH pressure.Let the pressure release for 5 minutes, then do a controlled release. Add sweet potatoes,Pressure cook for another 10 minutes on HIGH with the pressure valve sealed

How to convert Vegan Quinoa Chili in instant pot into a Freezer Meal

You can make easily make this into a freezer meal. Chop up all Fresh ingredients- Onion,Garlic,Celery,Sweet Potato and Bell Peppers. Add them to a freezer bag along with the Beans, Quinoa, Spices and Freeze.Add everything except the water. When it’s time to cook, dump the frozen meal in the instant pot, add water.Set the time to 15 minutes HIGH pressure.