Pressure cooker recipes / questions

zippychick

you can use that meat providing it was frozen safely and youve beared in mind how many times it's been cooked

Ive merged this with the pressure cooker quick qs - to see if someone can help with an answer

Zip

morganlefay

I've just cooked the most delicious and modestly priced thing which tasted wonderful (so modest !) We had it for a dinner party and it was a big success

For 4 + hungry people

Two packs of Morrison's pork cheeks (about 16 bits) - very cheap at present

1 carrot
2 sticks celery
Half a pack of de-stoned prunes (not expensive 'no soak' ones - mine were quite small, came from the co-op)
Half bottle of cheap red wine
About 2 tbs tomato puree
Splosh of HP sauce
Sprig of fresh thyme (could have used any dried herbs I think)
1 bay leaf
2 Oxo cubes

I browned the cheeks in hot oil in the bottom of my KR pressure cooker, and at the same time sweated the chopped veg gently in another pan. In the past I have cut the cheeks into smaller bits but I forgot this time and they were fine left whole.* When all meat brown and veg melted a bit I tipped the veg into the PC and stirred in about 1 tbs flour , then added the wine, 2 stock cubes dissolved in about 1/2 pint boiling water, prunes, herbs, tomato salt and pepper.
I brought it all up to high pressure and ignored it for 30 mins. I let the pressure reduce naturally and opened it to find a wonderful, dark brown, very tasty casserole, with melting meat and the prunes mostly softened and dissolving into the extremely tasty gravy.
We had it with baked spuds (done in Remoska) and spring greens.
If you have any other make of PC you might need more water since the KR seems not to lose any liquid at all while cooking under pressure. But if you have too much liquid when you open the PC you can just reduce it a bit by bubbling. I put it into a casserole dish and people thought I'd cooked it for hours in my big oven - ha ha !

*(Some people seem squeamish about the thought of pork cheeks - they do indeed look like what they are - but if that's a problem then just cut them into neat pieces. For myself I'm with Hugh F-W and thind we should give the piggies their due and not refuse to eat the bits of them which make us aware that we're eating an animal. Thank you, pigs)

sb44

morganlefay wrote: »

I've just cooked the most delicious and modestly priced thing which tasted wonderful (so modest !) We had it for a dinner party and it was a big success

For 4 + hungry people

Two packs of Morrison's pork cheeks (about 16 bits) - very cheap at present

Can you tell me how much the pork cheeks were please?

gillian62

Not sure of exact price - sure I saw about 6 of them for about £2.25 this morning - would be enough for a casserole for 4 I would think.

sb44

gillian62 wrote: »

Not sure of exact price - sure I saw about 6 of them for about £2.25 this morning - would be enough for a casserole for 4 I would think.

That's great, thanks for that, off to look for some tomorrow.

Alan_Vickers

Went to Morrisons yesterday but did not see any pork cheeks. However I got a pork shank, slightly more than 1.0kg in weight for £1.77. Cooked it today in one PC with vegetables in another. Lovely when cooked. Worth having a go with one sb44 but be careful that you do not purchase one that is too large for your pc.

Encouraged by the recent programmes on Channel 4 regarding using alternatives to cod, I also bought some whiting fillets to be cooked in the pc during the week. It may be worth having a go with fish as well, only takes a very few minutes at 15psi.

Alan Vickers.

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sianfish

I was given a pressure cooker on the weekend and had never used one, I decided to be adventurous and try using it on normal recipes to start with rather than tailored to the PC. So far I've made (veggie) coq au vin in 10 mins, sweetcorn chowder in about 8 mins and rice pudding from scratch in 8 (from a Jamie Oliver magazine especially designed for the PC and it was excellent!).

Almond & apricot rice pudding

4tbsp caster sugar
160g pudding rice
140g dried apricots (optional)
50g ground almonds
1/2 vanilla pod (I used a whole one)
3tbsp amaretto (I added this at the very end as shared it with my little one)
1 litre of milk
crushed amaretti biscuits & honey to serve

Put sugar in the pan and heat it normally until it melts into a light caramel (keep stirring it so it doesn't burn).

Add rice, apricots, almonds, vanilla & amaretto and stir until coated. Stir in the milk and keep stirring until anything that might be stuck to the bottom of the pan. Once it's simmering put on the lid, bring to pressure then turn down to the minimum heat that keeps pressure.

Cook at pressure for 8 mins, turn off heat and allow to de-pressurise without releasing the pressure yourself (about 10 mins) then open, stir and serve.

I had to put mine on for another minute at pressure and then used the de-pressure valve as mine was still a bit too watery. It was excellent and saves the 2 hours baking in the oven!

Alan_Vickers

Well done Sianfish. What PC have you got? I hope that you have an instruction manual and recipe book for it.

Hope that you enjoy using your PC.

Alan Vickers.

harvestmoon

Hi
Got a pressure cooker last month and the recipe book is the next best thing to useless!
I've googled etc and apart from miss lizzie and fs cookery websites, pretty much drawn a blank for recipes.
Anyone out there able to help me out with tried and tested soup/meat/poultry recipes?
I'd be REALLY grateful and thank you in advance

BitterAndTwisted

Erm, I could have misunderstood your question or I'm completely thick but I've never used special recipes for my pressure cooker. I just use my normal everyday recipes and use the p/cooker to cut radically down on the cooking times.