This pressure cooker risotto coaxes flavor from butternut squash without the laborious step of pre-roasting it in the oven, without a rich stock to muddy the flavors and, most...
course: first
First course pressure cooker recipes that include soups, pastas, rice and veggie dishes that are ordinarily served before the second (main) course.
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Asparagus Spring Risotto & making micro stock
Asparagus is nature's welcome mat to spring vegetables. They're nutty, greeny, nutritions and require very little prep.
Personally, my family adores the wild asparagus but it's very hard...
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Cozy Cream of Mushroom Soup
This recipe gets a concentrated mushroom flavor from the addition of dried mushrooms - try different types to completely change the flavor. To thicken the soup we went with potatoes instead of...
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Instructions & VIDEO: How to make a pressure cooker bone broth
Unlike a traditional stock, which is crystal clear and nearly free of fat a bone broth actually aims to be cloudy. That's because with a bone broth you want bits of calcium,...
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
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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Millet! It’s the new quinoa.
Millet is a high-protein grain that will pressure cook in a flash to tender perfection. The mild, delicately nutty and lightly sweet-tasting millet can replace rice, couscous or quinoa in any recipe.
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Lentil Risotto – peasant cooking under pressure
This dish is satisfying, healthy, filling and one of my husband's favorites! Italians make this dish by cooking lentils and then making a white risotto and mixing it all together before serving....
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Potato & Porcini Green Bean Salad OR Casserole!
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!
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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Chicory Bittery? Not!
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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PERFECT Pressure Cooker Rice – two easy ways!
Who needs a rice cooker when you can get perfect results from the pressure cooker! Here, we show you two ways to steam rice perfectly: The classic way, right in the pot that usually works for most pressure cookers; and, the Bain Marie way, also called pan in pot, for troublesome pressure cooker/cooktop combinations or to create a one-pot meal.
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Braisen! Pressure Cooked Artichoke, Pancetta and Egg Sauce
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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Peasant Fare: Pressure Cooker Ligurian Bean Stew
The January cover of La Cucina Italiana caught my eye with a wonderfully wintery soup. The recipe seemed like a perfect candidate for the pressure cooker - and improvisation!
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Pressure Cooker Pasta Casserole! A Cheesy, Meaty, Mess!
In Italy, whenever you bake a pasta that's not meant to be baked (like lasagne and cannelloni) you get a delicious pasticcio... mess! This recipe can actually end up as one of two dishes. Once the...
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Pressure Cooker Mac & Cheese Italian Style!
This recipe is the Roman version of Mac 'n Cheese - fresher, lighter and well... Italian! Even though you add the "sauce" after pressure cooking, this recipe takes advantage of the boiling...
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Pressure Cooker Pasta with Spinach Pesto – Casarecce ai Spinaci
This recipe was born out of desperation and improvisation during a long Austrian winter. I turned to spinach when basil was nowhere in sight and we'd had about all of the tomato sauce we could...
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Spicy Pressure Cooked Pasta Butterflies
Here are the recipe and “secret formula” to always get perfectly cooked pasta from your pressure cooker. Cooked in the sauce, and not just coated with it, the pasta changes color and promises to be flavorful, spicy – and also al dente!
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CRACKED! Soft, Medium, and Hard Boiled Eggs in the pressure cooker
I would never recommend pressure cooking something unless this cooking method improves the food or recipe in some way. For example, I didn't publish a pressure cooker frittata...
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Pressure Cooker Stewed Green Beans
This Italian pressure cooker green bean recipe is a family favorite - we make it often in many different ways.
It's a multi-use recipe that can be served as side dish, or used as sauce to be...
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COZY! Pressure Cooker Chikpea Minestrone
Once the chickpeas beans are soaked and ready to go they only need about 15 minutes under pressure and 10 more minutes of rest to be fully cooked. Then, just pop open the pressure cooker, add...
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Surly Kitchen’s Pressure Cooker Refried Beans – Reader Recipe
An avid cook and photographer, from The Sruly Kitchen, read her blog to find out who gets "surly" when they're hungry, offers the easiest recipe for refried beans that I've ever seen! It's just...
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Mushroom & Gorgonzola Pressure Cooker Polenta Lasagna
This lasagna is layer, upon layer of decadent flavor. The polenta itself is infused with lemon thyme who's fresh bright flavor contrasts with the woody mushrooms and the salty, yet sweet,...
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Polenta Five Ways – Pressure Cooker Recipe & Technique with Variations
Boiled, baked, grilled, fried or even room-temperature, polenta is one of those dishes that is incredibly flexible in it's methods and recipe! You can top it with almost anything...
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Pressure Cooked Calamari Tomato Sauce or Side Dish!
You can double this recipe and serve it as a side dish - Italians actually use it as a second course - or make it as written and mix it in with spaghetti, serve it with rice... or surprise...
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Hip Stuffed Zucchini on a Tomato Bed
You can thank Angelo's winning Cucumber cups on Top Chef for inspiring the look of this dish! I was going to make stuffed zucchini boats, but the cups really make a statement and happen to be...
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Pressure Cooked Sicilian Summer Vegetable Medley – Caponatina
Caponatina is a lighter and easier version to make than its cousin Caponata – which requires frying three ingredients separately. With this recipe, you lightly brown all of the vegetables...
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Pressure Cooker Risotto in 7 minutes!
I present you with an Italian-approved risotto pressure cooker recipe. The rice comes out creamy and delicious just like the original – faster, and without all that stirring and baby-sitting. This technique will not result in boiled rice and will only take 20 minutes from start to finish.
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Bright & Tasty Pressure Cooker Lentils
Bright, tasty, al dente lentils. My sister said it best after tasting this recipe, "Wow! This is not mom's brown mushy lentils that we were forced to eat. I like lentils now!" And...