New Pressure Cooker Tip: Taming Leafy Greens!


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 valves.



Push them down and pressure cook them with the metal lid from one of your other pots (no plastic handles). A steamer basket might be too light to push down the leaves, but if that's all you've got... try it!

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6 comments:

  1. I do think pressure cooking leafy greens is a bit much.

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    1. Why? Collard greens need a long time to boil but need only minutes in the pressure cooker!

      Ciao,

      L

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    2. I actually have made a delicious spinack and sausage soup, the spinach fillednthe pot to the top, fortunately I had no problem

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  2. If you have a hot soup going below most greens will begin loosing their volume when they touch the soup. However, I would be careful about filling the leaves over the max line. As they wilt, they could wrap themselves around the primary and/or exhast or secondary safety valve.

    For the above, I just added a touch of water and the spinach - needless to say 2 lbs and potful of spinach turned into about two cups of cooked spinach! But at least I can jam as much as I can squish in there and not have to worry about it's safety.

    Ciao,

    L

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  3. hi laura any recipes for swiss chard?

    ps love that you put search on top right. it was not all that convenient before

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    1. I've been meaning to write a recipe for Swiss Chard...

      Marcella Hazan has a traditional method that is well described (click here to see it) . What I do, is that if there are thick stalks I boil them underneath and put the leaves in the steamer basket aboved pressure cook the whole thing for 2-3 minutes on High with normal release. Then, as Marcella does in her recipe. saute' everything with a touch of oil and garlic (sometimes with a pinch of hot pepper and an anchovy, too). If the stocks are not particularly thick, just steam the whole lot for the same amount of time.

      Enjoy!!
      L

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