VEGETARIAN
Instant Pot Vegetable Curry
A weeknight vegetable curry with sweet potato, cauliflower, chickpeas, and spinach in coconut milk and red curry paste.
The paste needs its minute
This curry leans on red curry paste, and the paste needs a minute in hot oil before any liquid goes in. Skip that minute and the whole pot tastes flat. Give it the minute and it tastes like you knew what you were doing.
Everything else is weeknight simple. Coconut milk, sweet potato, cauliflower, and a can of chickpeas. It is a full dinner from the pot, and the leftovers hold up well for lunch the next day.
Quick release, on purpose
When the cook ends, open the valve right away. That is a quick release, and vegetables are why it exists. Sweet potato and cauliflower go soft fast, and a slow wait under pressure would turn them to mush.
Stir the spinach through at the end and it wilts in the heat of the curry. Serve it over rice with a lime wedge on the side. The lime is not decoration. It wakes the whole bowl up.
THE RECIPE
Instant Pot Vegetable Curry
Serves 6 · Total time 35 min · Easy
- Prep
- 15 min
- Pressure
- 4 min
- Release
- Quick
Amounts are written for a 6-quart cooker. Total time includes estimated pressurization and release.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Set the pot to Sauté and melt the coconut oil. Add the onion and cook until soft, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in the garlic, ginger, and curry paste and cook for 1 minute, stirring so the paste coats the onion.
- Pour in the coconut milk and broth and scrape the bottom of the pot clean. Add the sweet potato, cauliflower, and chickpeas.
- Lock the lid and pressure cook for 4 minutes.
- Open the valve right away to release the pressure. Stir in the soy sauce and salt to taste.
- Add the spinach and stir until it wilts, about a minute. Serve over rice with lime wedges.
PER SERVING
Nutrition breakdown
295 calories per serving.
- Fibre
- 7 g
- Sugars
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 540 mg
- Saturated fat
- 11 g
Approximate values based on the listed ingredients and 6 servings. Brands and substitutions can change the totals.