This Ethiopian-style pressure cooker soup adds all of the spices at the beginning of the recipe to flavor the lentils from the inside out (can't get that from a can ; ). Fresh baby...
bean pressure cooker recipes
Pressure cooked beans are 60-90% faster to make than conventional cooking. Remember to never fill the pressure cooker more than half full with beans (and their cooking liquid) and always open the pressure cooker using natural pressure release!
Forget to soak? Here’s how to remedy that in about 10 minutes using the quick-soak method. Some bean varieties don’t need soaking, find out which in the pressure cooking time chart for legumes.
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Chickpea Curry Rice Bowl – One Pot Meal
Pressure cook a tangy and spicy curry right along with the brown rice in just one go by stacking the rice in the pressure cooker on top of the curry.
This recipe uses the "duplex"...
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Black Bean & Lentil Chili – pressure cooker recipe
This pressure cooker chili is a one pot meal made with items you can find in any pantry. The black beans add depth and the lentils add a little spice – the mushrooms tie everything together into savory, satisfying dish.
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Pressure Cooking DRY versus SOAKED Beans
Here’s a bowl of red kidney beans that I took right out of the package and put in the pressure cooker. Do you see how unevenly cooked they are?
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Long-soaking and Quick-soaking beans in the Pressure Cooker
Let me show you two ways to soak beans. The first one is the traditional overnight soak, and the second one only takes twelve minutes – that’s the quick-soak!
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Millet, Veggie and Lentil One Pot – recipe & strategy
Jill Nussinow (aka The Veggie Queen) shares her hip strategies for preparing a satisfying vegan one pot meal, along with a recipe from her latest cookbook: Vegan Under Pressure - Perfect...
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Is It Better to Microwave or Pressure Cook Chickpeas?
A recent paper published by Virginia State University's Agricultural Research Station compared how different cooking methods affected the nutritional value of U.S. grown...
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Pressure Cooker Chicken, Black Beans & Rice Burrito Bowl
Make all the fixin's for a burrito in the pressure cooker in one pot - the beans, the chicken and the rice. Serve it in a bowl or wrap it into a burrito.
I used a few healthy...
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BBQ Pork Ribs & Spinach-Bean Salad from the cookbook!
Last year I launched the "Hip Pressure Cooking: Fresh, Fast & Flavorful" cookbook in New York with St. Martin's Press/Griffin. It's more than a cookbook, it's a reference for pressure...
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Creamy Split Pea and Bacon Soup
Split peas are the pressure cooker's forbidden food - too thick and foamy to be cooked without a care. Here's my version of this classic American soup and a list of precautions to cook this...
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Sweet Potato and Black-eyed Peas One-pot-meal
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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VIDEO: Red Bean and Turkey Chili
This chili is light on the fat but heavy on the flavor and satisfaction because although we use a very lean meat it’s paired with flavorful beans.
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TART! Pressure cooking beans with acidic ingredients (plus recipe)
Until a couple of years ago I pressure cooked every recipe with an acidic ingredient twice. First, I pressure cooked the beans and then I added the “offending” ingredients and pressure cooked everything again to infuse
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Got soy milk? Make it in the pressure cooker!
Make delicious ivory silky soy milk at home in minutes (after a day or two of soaking the beans) and without using any special equipment - other than your pressure cooker!
Making your own...
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Borlotti Bean Brownie Cake – for the LOVE of beans!
This chocolate dessert is made almost completely out of beans - the pressure cooker cooks the beans and then steams their batter to transform them into a cake.
The cake holds together quite...
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Make the 7-layer dip from scratch
Here's an amazingly flavorful seven layer dip. I like to serve this dip with just-made re-fried beans - their heat melts the cheese and adds a nice contrast to fresh ingredients on top - but it...
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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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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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Bessara – Pressure Cooked Moroccan Fava Bean Dip
The moroccan version of Hummus, this dip is made with favas, instead of chickpeas. This recipe is easy, exotic and, most of all, fast!The main ingredient here is dry Fava Beans. You can buy them...
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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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Pressure Cooker Re-fried Beans – all the flavor without the frying!
Re-fried beans, much like carnitas, are usually cooked twice (boiled and then fried). Your pressure cooker can infuse flavor while boiling; so, let's switch this classic recipe around to capture...
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Book Review: Pressure Cooker by Australian Women’s Weekly
With sample recipe: Chili Con Carne
“ An icon on the cover of the AWWPC cookbook announced that the recipes therein were triple tested, and a note from the food director, Pamela Clark, ...
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Reader Recipe: Nilam’s Split Pea and Calabash Squash Curry
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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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 Three Bean Salad – SUPER FAST!
With it's unique sweet and tart dressing and stunning color combination, this salad made quite an impression at a recent Italian BBQ! Admiration came with recipe requests and I realized I did...
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VIDEO! Simply Delicious: Hummus – Pressure Cooked Chickpea Spread
The trick is in the details that can raise your hummus from simply pureed chickpeas to wow! The most important step, of course, is to pressure cook the beans yourself instead of using...
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Reader Recipes: Kristine’s Boston "Baked Beans" Pressure Cooked in an hour!
Refusing to spend four hours in her sweltering summer kitchen actually baking beans, Kristine decided to take matters in her own hands and adapt her favorite recipe...
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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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JL’s Pressure Cooker Farro & Beans in Collard Green Wraps – Reader Recipes
JL, from JL Goes Vegan, resolved to go vegan last year and her pressure cooker is the perfect helper to eating more whole grains. After she hit 40 she became a marathoner and triathlete, changed...