Following the traditional white-potato pressure cooker mash method (boiling and mashing in the cooking liquid) will get you a soggy sweet potato mash! That's because sweet potatoes,...
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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.
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Pressure Cooker “Baked” Apples – really easy!
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took forever to figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
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Sage & Nutmeg Butternut Squash Autumn Risotto
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...
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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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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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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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Easy Stuffing Stuffed Turkey Breast Roast
The pressure cooker keeps the turkey meat moist, juicy and perfectly seasoned with our traditional-style stuffing.
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Pumpkin Cutie Pies OR Filling for baked pumpkin pie – from scratch
Make pumpkin pie filling, or crust-less pumpkin cutie pies, from scratch- starting with a fresh “pumpkin” and ending up with dessert in under an hour. The process is simple with our easy-cooking tips
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Quick Cranberry Sauce from Dried Berries
The pressure cooker is used to quickly re-hydrate the cranberries with a squeeze of lemon to bring them back to life- the result is thick, tart, and lightly firm cranberry sauce.
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
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Tapioca Pudding – no soaking, stirring or waiting!
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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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Old is New, again: Kamut, Arugula & Orange Salad
Kamut has a long, varied and mostly forgotten past. Theories of its origins boil down to two: an Egyptian staple in ancient times or, as it is still used today in Iran, camel feed. Since my...
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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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1-minute Quinoa Golden Pressure Cooker Pilaf
This fluffy and spicy quinoa pilaf is pressure cooked in just 1 minute. It continues cooking using the cooker's own residual heat and steam - without any energy at all!
I developed this...
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Chocoflan – The Mexican Impossible Cake!
This Mexican flan is three layers of delicious excitement. A husky caramel, a sweet flan and fluffy chocolate cake. Two of the layers siwtch places during cooking - this cake is as much fun to eat...
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Cranberry Braised Turkey Wings – Pressure Cooker Recipe
Poultry wings don't get much respect - they are small, bony and often chucked into stock. Turkey wings, because of their size, are the exception. The meat from a turkey wing is equivalent to...
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T3: Tomato, Tomato, Tomato Soup!
This pressure cooker recipe marks the end of all other tomato soups!
Although tomato soup is American, I made a version that exemplifies Italian cookery: Exalting one ingredient and making it...
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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 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 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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Red, White, and Green Pressure Cooker Brussels Sprouts!
The sprouts taste buttery when paired with tarty pomegranate and toasted pine nuts and the color combination is perfect for a winter table.
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Spicy Cauliflower & Citrus Salad Pressure Cooker Recipe
This side dish will brighten up your winter table. When my husband tasted it his eye-brows hit the ceiling. The spicy citrus vinaigrette gives this steamed vegetable side dish bim, bam and boom!...
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Cream of Butternut Squash & Ginger Soup – pressure cooker recipe
Our last soup for Soup Month is another easy recipe. Just peel, brown, boil and puree' for instant, creamy sophistication!
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15 Minute New England Clam Chowder
OK, if you use fresh clams it's 5 more minutes but who wouldn't want a chowder from scratch in under half an hour? You saute' the bacon and onions for 5 minutes, pressure cook the... -
Red Wine Stewed Pears – Fruity & Sweet!
Sweet and tart at the same time, no dessert stuns more with it's beauty than wine stewed pears! Just peel, stew and serve!
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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...