Pressure cooker recipes / questions

morganlefay

Well done cooking-mama, I will be v surprised if you don't love your KR. I must admit that I am grappling with the idea of buying a KR pressure 'frying pan' thingie, as there are just two of us now it would be good just for smaller meals I suspect, tho I haven't space for it !
Thank you for recipe which is so similar to the Suzanne Gibbs one that I won't repeat it here...I did try it rather nervously and the spuds were nice, but there was water left in the pan so they were a bit wet, and not a patch on proper crispy roasties done in the oven - but a good quick alternative.
There is also a recipe in the KR cookbook (you can buy it from them for about £6 - see the website) for pan fried potatoes with rosemary. You take 1kg spuds, 25g butter, salt and pepper and a bit of nutmeg and 2 tbs fresh rosemary or teaspoons dried. AND NO WATER.
You peel and very thinly slice spuds and dry well, then sprinkle with all the seasonings. Then melt half the butter in a pressure cooker frypan (so not my big p cooker) add the spuds and form them into a cake. Dot with remaining butter and fry until golden brown on the bottom.
Then bring pressure up to 2nd red ring and maintain for 10 mins. reduce pressure by touch release method and turn the spud cake out onto a plate for serving. I don't think I'd try this in my big p cooker, but it sounded a bit scary since it has no water at all !
I will do the thing to get the recipe pdf as I hadn't seen this on the website, so thanks cooking-mama and hope you're enjoying your pc.
And thanks again seraphina for chick pea recipe, my hummus is delicious and the chickpea cooking completely painless 1

cooking-mama

Thanks morganleyfay,unfortunately Rosemary is one of the (very few )things i dont like...cant even stand the smell of it:D

I havent found the book for sale yet,but i did find these other recipes on the website

http://www.kuhnrikon.co.uk/products-duromatic-recipes.asp

morganlefay

Cooking-mama, I have just looked for the Uk cookbook which was (I think) in the accessories bit of the KR Uk website, but it seems to have gone. Still I think it had fewer recipes than in the good download you found, so I wouldn't bother. If you like I can pm you a list of the recipes it has in it and if you like any of them I'll send them ? How are you getting on with the KR ?

cooking-mama

im waiting on delivery,only ordered it on Monday,im hoping it will arrive tomorrow(well,im actualy hoping it will arrive today,but thats wishfull thinking)
I also got the choice of 2 free gifts from lakeland,either a set of 2 chopping boards,or a quarter pounder burger press with 100 wax sheets...ive gone for the burger press,just wondering if i could do homemade burgers in the PC,then finish them off on the grill???...maybe?after all apparantly i can do meatballs,
Im thinking about asking for the pressure fryer from Santa...OMG,i must be bad,most women ask for perfume or clothes etc...and now im thinking about asking for kitchen gadgets:rotfl:,Years ago id have thumped my OH if he bought me a "household item" as a gift...now i look forward to it:o

morganlefay

Not sure about doing burgers in the pc - if you're going to grill them after anyway I think you might as well just grill them completely. PC not good for things you want a crisp/'chargrilled'/brown surface on.
I wondered if Santa might bring me the pc frying pan, so there are at least two sad people sending messages to Santa this year !:beer:

morganlefay

Pressure cooker to the rescue...
Yesterday I got some diced welsh lamb (just enough for 2)from Waitrose as a special treat, and cooked it with some Patak's Rogan Josh paste + onions and tinned toms - as per the recipe on the jar. Simmered it gently for the 30 mins specified, and found it still rock hard. gave it about 15 mins more, and then a hungry face appeared round the kitchen door, loooking hopeful. The meat was still uneatable so I whacked it into the pc gave it 10 mins at full pressure and it emerged all tender and delicious. I shall do that again but not bother with the simmering bit - straight to the pressure cooker with it. We had spicy rice with it and OH, who claims to hate curry said he'd be very happy to have it again...hoorah 1

unhappy_shopper

morganlefay wrote: »

Pressure cooker to the rescue...
Yesterday I got some diced welsh lamb (just enough for 2)from Waitrose as a special treat, and cooked it with some Patak's Rogan Josh paste + onions and tinned toms - as per the recipe on the jar. Simmered it gently for the 30 mins specified, and found it still rock hard. gave it about 15 mins more, and then a hungry face appeared round the kitchen door, loooking hopeful. The meat was still uneatable so I whacked it into the pc gave it 10 mins at full pressure and it emerged all tender and delicious. I shall do that again but not bother with the simmering bit - straight to the pressure cooker with it. We had spicy rice with it and OH, who claims to hate curry said he'd be very happy to have it again...hoorah 1

Rogan Josh from scratch cooked in a pressure cooker. HTH.

cooking-mama

morganlefay wrote: »

Pressure cooker to the rescue...
Yesterday I got some diced welsh lamb (just enough for 2)from Waitrose as a special treat, and cooked it with some Patak's Rogan Josh paste + onions and tinned toms - as per the recipe on the jar. Simmered it gently for the 30 mins specified, and found it still rock hard. gave it about 15 mins more, and then a hungry face appeared round the kitchen door, loooking hopeful. The meat was still uneatable so I whacked it into the pc gave it 10 mins at full pressure and it emerged all tender and delicious. I shall do that again but not bother with the simmering bit - straight to the pressure cooker with it. We had spicy rice with it and OH, who claims to hate curry said he'd be very happy to have it again...hoorah 1

Brilliant,im assuming the sauce didnt stick to the PC?,ive only tried a ready made sauce once in the prestige and it burnt black(was easy enough to clean off,but dinner was ruined...im still waiting on delivery of my K.R...just about to phone lakeland,im hoping its coming today cos the money has been debited from my bank.

cooking-mama

Apparantly my new pressure cooker was despatched 2 days ago,money out of bank yesterday but no delivery today..itl probably be delivered tomorrow....when im at work!!!...I wanted it today,to play with it

cooking-mama

Update on the kuhn rikon...ive just cooked a chicken in it for todays dinner(im working backshift,so will take mine to work and leave the rest for family)..Instruction manual stated 15mins for 1.4kg...I thought this was a bit quick ,so cooked it for 18mins..but it still didnt reach 180 degress cooked on the meat thermometer(only 156 ),gave it another 7mins taking it to a total of 25mins,it looks perfect,its cooling on a rack,i dunno how the breast/legs will be,but i tried a wee bit wing meat and that was kinda "chewy",like everything else its just gonna take time to get used to,i had a wee bit trouble regulating the 2 rings on my gas cooker,even at lowest setting it looked as tho the thing was popped up too high...Im amazed at how little water it uses,cant wait for my days off,to use it properly and with more time.
PS,i sprinkled it with Schwartz perfect shake for chicken..(paid around £!.60 for it)wouldnt bother,waste of money,looks and smells good,but im sure a chicken oxo wouldve done just the same.