It's winter. I need comfort food. Collected some pre-chopped mixed vegetables (carrot, leek, celery, parsnip, turnip, broccoli and parsley), two big meaty lamb shanks, pearl barley, red lentils, yellow and green split peas, black turtle beans, red kidney beans, toasted farro grain, vegetable stock powder and water. All of these went into the 11 function-in-one device multi-cooker using the pressure cooker/steamer lid with the pressure vent open in low power slow cook mode for seven hours.
I then removed and deboned the shanks and shredded the meat, returning it to the pot and giving it all a taste.
I hadn't added enough water at the start so I added two litres of boiling water, stirred it and tasted again. After allowing the mix to settle for a few hours it thickened and was very rich and intense with vegetable and meaty flavours throughout.
Absolutely delicious result.