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Step 1: Add together the amounts of liquid that go with those amounts of chickpeas, lentils, and barley, put it all in the Instant Pot, close, and press go.
Step 2: Realize--fortunately about 1 minute after starting the thing, so it hasn't even melted the slushy bits from the recently thawed broth, never mind attained pressure--that you have misbrained tablespoons as ounces, and thus overshot the requisite amount of liquid by 2x, which will likely result in soup instead of a grain-bowl kind of thing that you can put sauteed vegetables on top of.
Step 3: Say "Dammit."
Step 4: Say "What the hell" and toss all the vegetables in there along with the tomato sauce you needed to use up and some Berbere seasoning and turn it into vaguely Ethiopian chickpea-lentil-barley-vegetable stew.
Step 2: Realize--fortunately about 1 minute after starting the thing, so it hasn't even melted the slushy bits from the recently thawed broth, never mind attained pressure--that you have misbrained tablespoons as ounces, and thus overshot the requisite amount of liquid by 2x, which will likely result in soup instead of a grain-bowl kind of thing that you can put sauteed vegetables on top of.
Step 3: Say "Dammit."
Step 4: Say "What the hell" and toss all the vegetables in there along with the tomato sauce you needed to use up and some Berbere seasoning and turn it into vaguely Ethiopian chickpea-lentil-barley-vegetable stew.