Vegetable and Bean Stew (Stove Top and Instant Pot)

Vegetable and Bean Stew - A perfect hearty filling dish to serve on a cold winter's day.

An amazing dish to make for Meat Free Mondays, if you are Vegan or simply just fancy a filling vegetable dish.

It's packed with healthy vegetables, mixed beans and has a delicious flavour that the whole family will enjoy. 

This is one of my go-to recipes to make when I am batch cooking some stew and soup type dishes, as the ingredients are always items I have on hand in my fridge and pantry.

The only hard part is the chopping of vegetables. Unless of course, you use one of these vegetable choppers- It can come in super handy when you have lots of ingredients to dice up.

I recommend using a big casserole type pot to cook this in or a dutch oven, my favourite to cook stews and casseroles in, is my Staub Cast Iron Pot.

Own an Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker? You will be pleased to know you can cook this yummy Vegetable and Bean Stew in your pressure cooker.

I use an Instant Pot which is basically a 7in1 cooker, which can slow cook, pressure cook, sauté and has various settings for soup, chilli, rice, porridge and even makes yoghurt (I haven't tried that yet).

Manual high pressure is my choice of setting the majority of the time, picking my own timings depending on what it is I am making.

I use canned beans - six bean blend for the Vegetable and Bean stew, as it adds a great mixture, but you really can add in any beans you have on hand if there is a particular bean you don't enjoy. I just like all the flecks of different colours from the variety of beans. 

I do recommend using the little bit of fennel, it is okay without, but it really does make such a difference to the flavour. 

Love vegetable dishes like this? Check out some of my other Vegetarian recipes:

• Vegan Creamy Coconut Mushroom Lentils (Stove Top and Instant Pot)
• Asparagus Soup
• Easy and Tomato Soup
• Chinese 5 Spice Chickpeas
• Sticky Sriracha Mushroom Omelette
• Spicy Sweet Potato and Lentils 
• Curried Butternut Squash and Brown Rice Soup
• Coconut Vegetable Curry

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Love dumplings? Give these Vegan Lentil Dumplings a try, they pair perfectly with this Vegetable and Bean Stew.

Gotta love a yummy dumpling in your soup, stew or casserole right? These are not quite like your traditional dumpling, but perfectly hold together and are super easy to make. 

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