A minute under pressure is all it takes to infuse wine with fruit and spices – then serve or keep it warm for a party. Mulled wine is the perfect winter’s drink for a festive party or…
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Make Ricotta Cheese with the Instant Pot SMART, DUO, ULTRA (or any pot)
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
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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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Italian New Year’s Eve Tradition Pressurecookerized! Pork Sausage & Lentils
Cotechino, a special partially cured Italian sausage, and lentils are traditionally cooked separately but served together. We’re making new year’s eve hip by cooking both at the same time!
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Pressure Cooker Rosemary Veal Stew – a hug in a bowl
Cozy, comforting and, most of all, easy! The pressure cooker is a master of stews and here is a very basic recipe with extraordinary flavor that can easily be modified to include your favorite...
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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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SPILL the beans! Pressure cook fresh legumes
Fresh borlotti have a green and fresh flavor that no amount of soaking could ever put back into dry. If you happen to see fresh beans at the market grab them and rush home to make...
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QUICK! Pressure Cooked Pasta with Tuna and Capers
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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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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Mother-in-law’s Pressure Cooked Stuffed Artichokes
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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DELISH! Pressure Cooked Upside-down Apple and Ricotta Cake
Ready to love your pressure cooker even more? Now you can make dessert out of almost any fruit that is past its prime... dangerously quickly!
I had been searching everywhere to find a...
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JUMP! Pressure Cooked Chicken and Prosciutto Rolls
Here's another quick pressure cooker meal, because I know you are all busy with the holidays! This is also our first pressure cooker chicken breast recipe. Why did we wait almost three years to...
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Whole Fresh Fava Bean Saute’ Roman Style!
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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Whole Beets: White Beet and Garlic Saute’
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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Turn Tough Meat into Jelly: Italian Boiled Beef with Rustic Green Sauce
Boiling meat in the pressure cooker can turn chewy nerves and ligaments from a cheap cut of meat into gelatin in about an hour. What really makes this dish unique is the rustic green sauce - a...
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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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Creamy & Dreamy: Chestnut Soup (Potage di Marroni)
The fruits of autumn are a bright spot of what would ordinarily be a dull, gray season. Chestnuts, in particular, are so versatile. They can be served both in savory and sweet dishes, they can...
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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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Pressure Cooker Potato Salad – Italian Style!
When I first started pressure cooking I kept trying to make this potato salad but the potatoes kept falling apart into a mash. I finally figured out that by reversing the process -...
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Easy Pressure Steamed Mediterranean Style Fish
Do you always eat fish with lemon? Try using tarty and sweet cherry tomatoes and vinegary capers, instead! Salty olives and husky Thyme add excitement to an otherwise ho-hum white fish...
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Prosciutto-wrapped Asparagus Canes
Super easy and fast to make, pressure steaming the prosciutto and the asparagus together give each a more intense flavor! Though asparagus should usually be cooked at low pressure, a quick burst...
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Modern Venice: Perfectly steamed mussels (Cozze Serenissime)
A unique appetizer that continues cooking right in front of you! The mussels are steamed for one minute in the pressure cooker and served on a bed of radicchio and spinach that wilts in the...
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Surprising Side: Milk-poached Fennel
Five minutes under low pressure, and you'll have a healthy, delicious and unexpected side dish to accompany meat or poultry.It breaks all of the pressure cooking rules, using milk and flour, but...
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Easy and Chic: Pressure Cooker Creme Caramel!
This is a dessert that never fails to impress. It is incredibly easy, but requires you to learn a new skill - making caramel. Pressure cook this flan in 10 minutes and the transformation to...
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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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How to make stock with a pressure cooker
A rich, flavorful stock can be had from chicken parts that you, or your butcher, would ordinarily discard and can be ready from start to finish in under an hour.