Ep. 218: Nisha Vora - How this Corporate Lawyer Traded the Courtroom for the Kitchen
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Nisha Vora was raised in a traditional vegetarian Indian household, went to undergrad at Berkeley, Harvard Law School, and then worked as a corporate lawyer for a few years in New York City.
It didn’t take long for her to realize that this was NOT what she wanted to do because, even as a young girl, Nisha loved food and cooking. She was the girl who would watch cooking shows on TV and take cooking classes for fun. And, as a corporate lawyer, she definitely didn’t have time for cooking and she wasn’t having any fun.
So, in 2016, after binge-watching food documentaries all weekend long, Nisha became fully plant-based and started a food blog side hustle – rainbowplantlfe.com. That “side” hustle has now become a full-time career as she teaches her one million YouTube subscribers how to be better cooks and consume fewer animals.
In 2019, she released her first book, The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook: Wholesome Indulgent Plant-Based Recipes and that’s what we dive into today. People are so intimidated by this wildly popular kitchen tool and she breaks it down, teaches us how to start simple, and then shows us the magic you can create with the Instant Pot.
Rip and Nisha discuss:
- Her parent’s reaction when she told them she was leaving her law career to become a food blogger
- Transitioning from Instagram to her own food blog
- Her personal journey from vegetarianism to veganism
- Exploring the versatility of the Instant Pot and why she wanted to write this book
- How to start with the basics of Instant Pot cooking
- Her unique approach to cooking
- A sample of delicious recipes from the book including breakfasts, veggies, soups/curries, and comfort foods
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, do you ever wish that you had a shortcut to making quick and easy dinners |
| 0:05.3 | with just a handful of ingredients straight from your pantry? |
| 0:10.1 | I always have a freezer full of vegetables and brown rice, but making a sauce at the |
| 0:17.6 | end of a long day can be exhausting and frankly is the straw that breaks the camel's back. |
| 0:23.7 | And bottled sauces at the grocery store, they're loaded with oil, sugar and all kinds of |
| 0:29.1 | nonsense, and it's like pouring motor oil all over your beautiful meal that you've created. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, today I'm going to let you in on a little secret plan strong's all new, just launched secret |
| 0:42.2 | sauce mix. It is your secret weapon for quick and delicious dinners that everyone in the family |
| 0:48.8 | will adore. Our first secret sauce is an organic peanut curry mix, and it's specially formulated |
| 0:55.5 | to make a creamy, dreamy sauce that will make you want to lick the bowl clean. The secret is its |
| 1:03.1 | base. We've used a powdered, defatted peanut butter with lots of body and you just whisk it up |
| 1:09.4 | to make this delicious sauce. Now to boot, it's warm spices give a depth and complexity that's |
| 1:15.4 | really spectacular. And having this secret weapon in your pantry will guarantee that you never |
| 1:21.3 | grow bored with just brown rice and broccoli. You can use it as a salad dressing, a warm grain |
| 1:28.2 | bowl topper, a dipping sauce, or as a simmer sauce for absolutely any meal. My favorite way |
| 1:35.7 | to enjoy it is by throwing a bag of frozen rice in the microwave. Then I toss a bag of frozen |
| 1:41.8 | vegetables along with a cut up brick of tofu in a warm skillet. And while that's doing its thing, |
| 1:48.3 | I'll mix the peanut curry sauce packet with one cup of water and stir that up. Then I pour |
| 1:54.5 | the sauce into the skillet with the veggies in the tofu until it's hot and starts to bubble. |
| 2:01.4 | And then I serve it over the brown rice, and now you've got a delicious plant-strong meal. |
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