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Pressure Cooking School
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Sweet Desserts – Pressure Cooking School
It’s time to get sweet! We’re going to make a Mascarpone Cheesecake and lava mug cake. But first, we’re going to discuss what containers to cook those desserts in, how their size and shape affect the cooking time, and I’m going to give you the low-down on how baking powder reacts under pressure.
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Pressure Cooker Heat-safe Containers: Materials & Shapes
How to choose a heat-safe container to use in the pressure cooker – and how its materials and shape affect the cooking time of the food inside them!
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How Baking Powder Reacts Under Pressure
To illustrate how baking powder behaves in the pressure cooker, we need three cooks to bake a cake. One lives at sea level, the other in a high-altitude location, and the last one in a low-altitude location..
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Mascarpone, Ricotta, Chocolate Chip Cheesecake – pressure cooker recipe
Here’s a pressure cooker cheesecake recipe inspired by my friend and fellow karate classmate, Susanna – it’s a one-of-a-kind cheesecake featuring both ricotta and mascarpone cheese – sorry Philly, I’ll whip you into a cheesecake next time.
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Pressure Cooker Cheesecake DO’s and DON’Ts
I’m about to tell you that everything you’ve heard about pressure cooking cheesecakes is wrong. But don’t start typing an angry comment, yet… hear me out!
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Pressure Cooker Chocolate Lava Mug Cake
What is the point of whipping out the pressure cooker when you can just slide the mug in the microwave and call it a day? It’s how the pressure cooker heats-up foods that makes the lava in this cake possible.
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Marvelous Meats – Pressure Cooking School
I’ll reveal four secrets to marvelous pressure cooker meats and share my best tips while we make two recipes: a savory Spiced Beef Stew and an easy Chicken Cacciatore.
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Choosing the Right Cut of Meat for the Pressure Cooker
The reality is that by the time the cooker has reached pressure, some meats will already be overcooked. So let’s take a look at what cuts of meats are best for the pressure cooker and the tricky ones.
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Restrict Cooking Liquid for Flavorful Pressure Cooked Meat
Fresh meat can be 45-70% water. Plus, if you add 10-15% more liquid for brined and frozen meats you’re going to end up with AT LEAST and an additional cup of cooking liquid for each pound of meat that goes into the pressure cooker.
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STOP Overcooking Meat in Your Pressure Cooker!
Unfortunately, once you overcook a piece of meat in the pressure cooker, there’s no going back. You’ll be left with a pile of dry, tasteless…
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Wrong Pressure Release Can Ruin Meat – here’s why & a cheat
When I pressure cooked my first roast, I was so excited. But then, I couldn’t recognize what was on that serving platter! The roast had shrunken into a dark, tasteless, hard thing that…
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Tender Pressure Cooked Spiced Beef Stew & Meat Tips
A classic stew that showcases how the pressure cooker can give boundless flavor and tender meat by using few well-chosen ingredients and techniques.
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Pressure Cooker Chicken Cacciatore & Magically Increasing Liquid
The liquid appears to magically increase while pressure cooking this recipe, but – don’t worry – no one snuck into the pressure cooker to add more! Let me explain.
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Vivid Veggies & Opening Methods- Pressure Cooking School
We’re going to steam some broccoli and then I’m going to show you a technique that will turn any package of frozen veggies into a delicious stew. But wait… there’s more!
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Pressure Cooker Veggie Confession
Sigh… I have a confession to make.Not everyone is going to enjoy…
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Steamed Broccoli & Steamer Baskets
Steaming broccoli sounds simple, right? But, first, we need a steamer basket to steam them with!
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Turn Any Frozen Veggie Into a Pressure Cooker Stew
This technique will work with any frozen vegetable. There’s no measuring, slicing or dicing, just dump and go!
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Pressure Cooker Opening Methods – Pressure Cooking School
How you open the pressure cooker is actually an important part of the recipe. Let’s review the four pressure cooker opening methods and…
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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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Bean Essentials – Pressure Cooking School
Today, we're pressure cooking beans! We'll discuss the difference between pressure cooking beans straight from dry, versus soaked. I will show you a technique on how to quick-soak...
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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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Rice Basics – Pressure Cooking School
Today we're going to use the pressure cooker as a rice cooker. We're going to make two recipes. First, a perfectly steamed brown rice and second, a super simple Basmati Confetti Rice....
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Turn Your Pressure Cooker Into a Rice Cooker!
Ok, are you ready for this? The key to perfectly cooked rice in the pressure cooker is… to
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Pressure Cooker Steamed Brown Rice
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker’s steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
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Add Veggies to Pressure Cooker Rice – without making a big mess!
At the beginning of this lesson, I mentioned how if you add vegetables to your perfect pressure cooker rice you might get a mess – let me explain why.
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Pressure Cooker Confetti Basmati Rice Recipe
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
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The First Recipe – Pressure Cooking School
Today we're going to make our first pressure cooker recipe: a delicious Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash - don't worry, it's easy! We're also going to discuss your pressure cooker's...
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Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash – Sneaky Healthy Pressure Cooker Recipe!
Make this recipe with any kind of potato – leave the skin on for extra fiber and protein or peel it off before starting. It’s up to you. The pressure cooker will tenderize the skins so they’ll add color, but they will be barely noticeable texture-wise.