This time of year I’m doing lots of cooking demos about the wonders of using a pressure cooker to make delicious vegan holiday meals…fast! One thing that amazes folks (and me!) is how succulent a vegan holiday roast is with just a few minutes under pressure…
PHOTO: Kate Lewis
…and how fab it is to make a holiday roast and root veggies in one-pot (Field Roast, Gardein, and Tofurky make tasty holiday roasts). Here’s the recipe!
Holiday Roast with Mashed Vegetables
Recipe from Vegan Pressure Cooking: Beans, Grains, and One-Pot Meals in Minutes by JL Fields (Fair Winds Press, January 2015)
- 1 to 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 cup 160 g diced yellow onion
- 2 cups 260 g diced carrot
- 2 cups 220 g diced potato
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 vegan stuffed roast (1 pound, or 454 g, thawed)
- 3/4 to 1 cup 180 to 235 ml vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon 15 ml almond milk
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon vegan butter (optional)
- In an uncovered pressure cooker, heat the oil on medium-high. Add the garlic and onion and sauté for 1 minute. Add the carrots, potatoes, and salt. Mix well. Place the thawed roast on top of the vegetables and pour the vegetable broth over the roast.
- Cover and bring to pressure. Cook at low pressure for 8 minutes. Use a quick release.
- Remove the lid, remove the roast, and set aside.
- Add the almond milk, black pepper, and vegan butter to the vegetables in the pressure cooker and mash with a potato masher. Slice the roast and serve with the mashed vegetables.
If you’re using a multifunction electric pressure cooker, you can also use the slow-cooking function for 1 hour.
You know what’s great drizzled over this mouthwatering roast and mashed veggies dish? My favorite white bean gravy recipe.
How about a pressure cooked dessert? Make this Chunky Applesauce,
stir in your favorite granola, and you have a quickie apple crumble to spoon over vegan ice cream!
If you’re looking for other quick and easy vegan holiday cooking tips, check out my most recent newsletter – Vegan Thanksgiving: Keepin’ it real – and you’ll be able to grab the recipe for these delightfully easy, and definitely delicious, vegan Green Beans and Bacon.
By the way, consider signing up for my newsletter; you’ll receive a FREE one-week vegan meal plan immediately! Sign up here: JL’s Newsletter.
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Responses
HOW AMAZING IS THIS? super quick holiday dinner? love. we may be traveling on the actual holidays this year, so a fun alternative day might be in order… or just a weeknight after work, ha!
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I love the Field Roast Celebration roast year round, @spa@spabettie:disqus!
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OMG! I made this tonight! I will never go back to baking my Tofurky again! Ours was frozen. We followed the directions on the box for defrosting (15 min). Then put it in the InstantPot for 8 min on a bed of potatoes and onions with liquid. BAM! Done! We put a bit of liquid smoke in the broth, sprinkled it with poultry seasoning and smoked paprika. The potatoes were so flavorful mashed with the broth and a splash of almond milk.
Tofurky should put this method of cooking on the box, website, or at least a link to this page! I’m sold.
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Oh, @juderichardseastman:disqus, I’m so happy you love this method, too! I’ll pass along our suggestion to Tofurky! (Seriously!)
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I just went on the contact us link at Tofurky with this link to your blog and raved about this method!
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Aw, thanks, @juderichardseastman:disqus!
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Yum! What an easy way to put a meal together. I used Field Roast’s Celebration Roast. The IP method made it come out moist but I wanted a little crunch so I put it in the air fryer at 300 for 5 minutes. The mashed veggies were so flavorful and soaked up a bit of the roast drippings. I served this all with corn on the cob and green beans. Perfect! I love simple but tasty recipes like this.
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Thank you! And i LOVE that you finished off the roast in the AF … I’ll have to try that, @disqus_tHvoeRRcvL:disqus!
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Bailey, was the roast still moist inside after you air fryed it? It sounds AMAZING.
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Yep! The roast has so much moisture already that 5 minutes just slightly browned it.
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Yay! My stove isn’t working, and now that I know I can make the roast that’s been sitting in my freezer waiting on the repairs, I may forget about it forever! Thank you so much.
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You’re welcome, @disqus_qX6JZEGQTb:disqus!
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I was looking everywhere on Pinterest for this method and couldn’t find it!! A kind person on one of the FB IP groups posted this after I asked. Soooo glad this was recommended to me and I can’t wait to try it!
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Let me know what you think!
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