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I have made:
1) Borscht with Lemon twist and greens -LOVED IT! A+++ We LOVE this recipe! I shared it with my sister and mother-in-law. This recipe alone is worth the price of this cookbook!
2) Lebanese Vegetable Soup – LOVED IT! grade B+ delicious. Will make it again.
3) Red Lentil Sweet Potato And hemp Burgers – LOVED IT! grade A+, delicious. Keeper.
4) Atakilt Wat Ethiopian Cabbage, carrots and potatoes- LOVED IT! Grade B+, good . Will make for my family again.
5) Lentil Tomato Sauce – LOVED IT! Grade B or 4 out of 5 stars. I did a lentil tomato spaghetti sauce recipe taste test with 3 different cookbooks. I included photos. The recipe from Everyday Happy Herbivore was an epic fail. We flushed it down the toilet. And Isa Moskowitz’s from Appetite for Reduction also failed and got flushed down the toilet. Jill Nussinow scored a B grade.
6) Posole Chili – LOVED IT! Grade A-. My husband said “It’s good and I like it. He gave it 4 out of 5 stars. I give this 5 out of 5 stars. It was really delicious!
7) Shane’s Fabulous Lentil Soup – LOVED IT! A+ 5 out of 5 stars. I only added half the lentils she stated in the recipe and half the vegetables and the soup was very, very thick. She says you can change the flavor of the soup by adding Berbere spice blends or another curry powder you like. I added my Great British Chef’s Berber spice blend as I do not like Jill’s. My husband likes it plain with no Berbere spice blend added and I LOVE adding the Great British Chef’s Bereber blend to it.
8) Jill’s Berber spice blend. PASS. It tastes more Indian than African. I give it a B grade or 4 out of 5 stars. We like British Great Chef’s Berbere spice blend much more.
9) Harissa spice blend. Grade F or 0 stars out of 0. I like Fresh From the Vegan slow cooker by Robin Robertson’s Ethiopian lentil harissa spice blend much more.
10) Pumpkin Spice Oats - grade C. Or 3 out of 5 stars. This is healthy but nothing special.
11) Ethiopian Red Lentil Stew Misir Wat- grade B- or 3.5 stars out of 5 stars. I love Fresh From the vegan slow cookers Ethiopian Style Tempeh and Lentils (I substitute TVP for Tempeh) recipe a million times more. We did not like the spice combination.
12) warming chickpeas - grade Epic fail! Flushed it down the toilet.
13) Gomen Ethiopian collard greens - grade Epic Fail. Flushed it down the toilet. I think this would have been perfectly fine IF I had omitted the hot spices. My family did not like spicy greens. The directions were good and the greens were perfectly cooked.
14) Middle Eastern chickpea and tomato soup - grade Epic fail. Flushed it down the toilet. Nobody in my family liked it. We love spice filled foods. It’s just this combo was not a winner for our family.
15) Moroccan chickpea stew - grade Epic fail. Flushed it down the toilet. We love two recipes from Robin Robertson’s cookbook-the African inspired peanut stew from Robin Robertson’s Fresh From the Vegan slow cooker and her North African chickpea soup is a family favorite.
16) Sloppy Jill’s sloppy Joes. Grade epic fail. I made 3 sloppy Joe recipes from 3 cookbooks and included photos. I tried Crockpot’s original vegetarian recipes and Vegan Under Pressure’s and Fresh From the Vegan Slow cooker by Robin Robertson The winner hands down and what our family loved was from “Crock-pot the original slow cooker vegetarian recipes “ All-American meatless sloppy joes.
17) Holy Mole Black Bean Soup - My husband gave this 3 out of 5 stars and said “Eew I do not like it at all.” I gave it 2 out of 5 stars. So our family gives it a D grade. I flushed it down the toilet. Our family’s favorite black bean soup is from Lorna Sass’s Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure and Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight! Cookbook.
18) Spanish Brown Rice - good . It took 35 minutes on High pressure with a natural release to cook the brown rice. Not 25 minutes. I tried this with short grain, medium grain and long grain brown rice.
19) Veggie Paella p 88. 0 stars out of 5. Epic fail. Disgusting! I did a 3 paella cookbook cook off. This was horrible. Crockpot the original vegetarian recipes paella was a huge fail. The third paella from Lorna J Sass’s Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure won. With 3 1/2 stars out of 5.
20) Spring Split Pea Soup. 0 stars out of 5. Yuck! I did a cook off with Robin Robertson’s Fresh From the vegan slow cooker “smoky split pea soup” 5 stars out of 5 stars! I made both in my pressure cooker.
21) Smoky cheesy steel-cut oats - 2 1/2 stars out of 5 stars. Okay. Edible. But I won’t make it again for my family.
So out of the 21 recipes I have made from Vegan Under Pressure by Jill Nussinow, 5 are family favorites and scored A+ or 5 out of 5 stars. And were epic fails and got flushed down the toilet. And 2 got B+ so I will make them again. The remaining I will not make again. I would buy this cookbook again. It is a great guide on how to use the pressure cooker. And I love that there are real whole food ingredients in the recipes. I do recommend this cookbook. But I also highly, highly recommend my most used and beloved Great Vegetarian Cooking Under pressure by Lorna Sass and Robin Robertson’s Fresh From the Vegan Slow cooker because I have tested between 45-50 of each of the recipes and found family favorites in both. With food costs sky rocketing and inflation hitting cooking from these books will save you money. My family is brutal when it comes to rating food. I hope you try the recipes I tried. If you are new to pressure cooking Jill’s book will help.
