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This is a vegan Lebanese dish of spiced lentils, though Egypt has a similar dish (different spice profile, natch). If you have lentils, onion, garlic, rice, and some olive (or other high temp) oil kicking around and you want a quick and filling meal, this is a good dish to try.

You will need two mixing bowls, a knife, a big stirring spoon, and a cutting board as well as the Instant Pot. Also, if you want, a third mixing bowl and a strainer that fits within it so that you can freeze up some vegetable stock.

Why would anyone write Instant Pot instructions for a frozen skillet meal? Small children taking every opportunity to try to destroy the house while you are slaving over a hot stove you cannot step away from, that's why!

I have not tested this recipe with any other frozen skillet meal but the one listed in the title, yet I highly suspect that it will work identically. If you try it, drop me a line and let me know whether my suspicions are accurate.

Let's talk about No Scrap Left Behind, which is one of my frequented subreddits. It is a movement all about taking the scraps from one recipe and using them in a different recipe. Since I'm a vegetarian, my scraps are almost always vegetables. And so, I make soup. In my Instant Pot. And so can you!

First, let me say that this recipe is not a quick way to put dinner on the table, but in terms of actual time you have to do any actual thing, it will only involve your human labor for about 10 minutes. Meets my patient-yet-lazy standards.

Don't you hate recipes that call for 1/2 an onion or 1/4 an onion? I do. What am I going to do with the rest of the onion? I do batch cooking, so it will be a long time before I get to using up the rest of that onion. I used to just throw the whole onion in, but that often times would upset the flavor balance.

But then I figured it out: dehydrate the onion.

Need that in more detail?