Did you know that most vegetables only need about 5 minutes at pressure to be fully cooked? It’s easy to over-do it, so be sure to follow our recommendation or look-up the veggie’s pressure cooking time. If your pressure cooker didn’t come with one, you may want to invest in a steamer basket to increase the cooking options.
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Sweet Potato and Black-eyed Peas One-pot-meal
23 Jan 2015Laura Pazzaglia
The black-eyed peas boil in the base of the pressure cooker, while their cooking liquid steams the potatoes above – making this a delicious and healthy one pot meal!
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Cozy Cream of Mushroom Soup
19 Dec 2014Laura Pazzaglia
This recipe gets a concentrated mushroom flavor from the addition of dried mushrooms - try different types tocompletely change the flavor. To thicken the soup we went withpotatoes instead of...
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
29 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Sometimes, a boiled potato won’t do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
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Pumpkin Cutie Pies OR Filling for baked pumpkin pie – from scratch
27 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Make pumpkin pie filling, or crust-less pumpkin cutie pies, from scratch- starting with a fresh “pumpkin” and ending up with dessert in under an hour. The process is simple with our easy-cooking tips
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
26 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
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Tease spaghetti right out of that squash!
1 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Spaghetti squash has yet to be discovered or grown outside of America. Its flesh is so fibrous that it resembles home-made pasta – and the pressure cooker, in my opinion, gives this squash the best texture.
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Stand-up for Asparagus!
8 Apr 2014Laura Pazzaglia
When you want to steam asparagus, but not cut the stems down to the size of your steamer basket, stand them up! <span aria-label="Continue reading Pressure Cooker Tip: Stand-up for...
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Comfy Cottage Pie – Speedy Brit Comfort Food
5 Dec 2013Laura Pazzaglia
We’ve made this classic dish not just faster, but easier, too – there is very little prep and we pressure cooked the meat and potatoes at the same time!
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11 Nov 2013Laura Pazzaglia
However you think these three ingredients will taste together, this dish will taste even better. I sometimes put my tasteination (taste imagination) to work when combining...
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Pesto!
13 Aug 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Don't tell the picky eater in your household that this pasta sauce is a vitamin-charged Zucchini puree'- at least not until after they take the first bite. Only then should you...
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Instant Tabasco – 1 minute in the pressure cooker!
22 Jul 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Your pressure cooker can extract most of the the color and flavor from hot peppers in one minute at high pressure. This hot sauce is a bold, vivid red and the flavor is amazingly...
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3 Jul 2013Laura Pazzaglia
This dish is not only quick to cook, it's also quick to prepare. Unlike most pressure cooker veggie dishes, it will not take you more time to prep the vegetables than it does to cook...
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QUICK! Pressure Cooked Pasta with Tuna and Capers
29 May 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Everyone in Italy cooks, knows and loves this pasta recipe but it's almost unknown in America - where tuna and pasta typically bring visions of a cold pasta salad and not the cozy family...
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Mission Artichoke: Creamy dip from scratch!
22 May 2013Laura Pazzaglia
This artichoke dip is unique in several ways - beyond being pressure cooked! It's made with fresh artichokes, not marinated hearts, and does not contain a single drop of mayonnaise or cream....
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Chicory Bittery? Not!
7 May 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Chicory, also known as Italian Dandelion, is a tricky green to cook - there are many ways to do it wrong and serve-up a dish of in-edible bitter and twiggy greens. <span aria-label="Continue...
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Mother-in-law’s Pressure Cooked Stuffed Artichokes
23 Apr 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Margherita is my Southern Italian mother-in-law who, in typical fashion, took over our kitchen during her recent visit. She made Lucanian specialties from the little-known Italian...
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Fancy in a FLASH! Pressure Cooker Porcini Mushroom Pate’
5 Mar 2013Laura Pazzaglia
We're being sneaky this week, making this spread with dry porcini -supermarket mushrooms add volume and fresh creds to this fancy pressure cooked spread.
My 7-year old son, who calls these...
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21 Feb 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Spring is almost here and I just can't wait. In giddy anticipation here's another one pot meal that is low prep, fast and...
..dare I say it?!? Healthy.
We used a very lean cut of pork,...
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Clean, Cut and Pressure Cook Bok Choi
16 Jan 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Time to eat more greens but how to prepare them? Here's our guide to cleaning, preparing and pressure cooking Bok Choi- also called Pak Choy, Chinese Cabbage, White Mustard Greens and, in Italy,...
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3 pressure cooker nutrition myths that just won’t go away… ’till now
16 Oct 2012Laura Pazzaglia
UPDATE: Visit our new section on pressure cooker nutrition, too!
We read available scientific literature and even contacted the researchers directly to find the latest data on the pressure...
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The Stinking Rose – perfectly roasted garlic in 20 minutes!
21 May 2012Laura Pazzaglia
Delicious, perfectly "roasted" and caramelized garlic in just 5 minutes under pressure and 5 more under the broiler - not an hour in the oven!
The folks who published Modernist...
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Whole Fresh Fava Bean Saute’ Roman Style!
22 Apr 2012Laura Pazzaglia
When fava beans are freshly picked, you can eat the whole bean (no peeling the skin around the bean) - if you picked them within a few days you can even pop freshly shelled favas in your...
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Arroz – Spanish Rice: Mexican Pressure Cooker Recipes
19 Apr 2012Laura Pazzaglia
In America, the basic rice used in Mexican cuisine is referred to as "Spanish Rice" - which confuses Spaniards because they have never heard of it. My guess: the rice got its name when someone...
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Reader Recipe: Nilam’s Split Pea and Calabash Squash Curry
16 Apr 2012Laura Pazzaglia
Nilam, from the Khavanu Blog, shares her family's Gujarati curry - don't let the exotic squash dissuade from trying it - you can also use zucchini!
She grew with most of her meals prepared...
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Whole Beets: White Beet and Garlic Saute’
7 Mar 2012Laura Pazzaglia
Fresh beets are two vegetables in one. Delicious greens and earthy tuber. You can pressure cook the beet and then wilt the greens using the residual heat from the cooker. Sauteing them...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Taming Leafy Greens!
15 Feb 2012Laura Pazzaglia
It's tricky to pressure cook large quantities of leafy greens because they can easily overrun the maximum capacity line of your pressure cooker- threatening to clog the primary or safety...
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Braisen! Pressure Cooked Artichoke, Pancetta and Egg Sauce
25 Jan 2012Laura Pazzaglia
The luxurious and silky Carbonara sauce, dotted with smoky pancetta, helps the artichoke's naturally nutty and sweet flavor bloom.
Carbonara is a fairly new traditional dish in Italy -...
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Ooooh: Roast Potatoes – from the pressure cooker!
21 Dec 2011Laura Pazzaglia
Fluffy on the inside with a lovely browned skin on the outside, baby or fingerling potatoes can be perfectly cooked in no time by combining traditional and pressure cooking techniques.
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JA! Beer Braised Cabbage with Bacon – Kohl mit Bier und Speck
7 Dec 2011Laura Pazzaglia
When I brought home this cabbage, I remembered the Austrian farmer's market from a few years ago behind Graz's Opera House at this time of year.
The ground was not yet covered with snow,...
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T3: Tomato, Tomato, Tomato Soup!
9 Nov 2011Laura Pazzaglia
This pressure cooker recipe marks the end of all other tomato soups!
Although tomato soup is American, I made a version that exemplifies Italian cookery: Exalting one ingredient and making it...
