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The Pressure Cooker Cookbook: Homemade Meals in Minutes
This book offers a collection of recipes and techniques for soul-satisfying meals using a stove-top or electric pressure cooker. The recipes all have the rich, layered flavor of slow-cooked meals, but take a fraction of the time to prepare.
The book begins with a primer on the types of pressure cookers available today and how to use them to achieve the best results. Next are four recipe Soups & Stews, Beans & Grains, Meats & Poultry, and Vegetables. The back matter offers a visual step-by-step guide on how to prepare pressure-cooked meals, and serving suggestions make it easy to pair the main course with tasty sides and other accompaniments.
Comfort food classics like barbecued brisket sandwiches, home-style pot roast with root vegetables, and Boston baked beans will make everyone feel at home. Cold weather favorites such as pork chile verde, beef stroganoff, and pasta with bolognese sauce are perfect for après ski meals or busy winter weeknights. Vegetables, often thrown together as an afterthought, will become center stage with tasty dishes like winter squash purée with brown butter and sage, artichokes braised in white wine, and braised fennel with garlic.
This book will help you make delicious, hearty meals— that usually take hours to make—in very little time. Instead of watching the pot all day to make your favorite stew or braise, you can enjoy an all-day activity while your pressure cooker does all the work.
The book begins with a primer on the types of pressure cookers available today and how to use them to achieve the best results. Next are four recipe Soups & Stews, Beans & Grains, Meats & Poultry, and Vegetables. The back matter offers a visual step-by-step guide on how to prepare pressure-cooked meals, and serving suggestions make it easy to pair the main course with tasty sides and other accompaniments.
Comfort food classics like barbecued brisket sandwiches, home-style pot roast with root vegetables, and Boston baked beans will make everyone feel at home. Cold weather favorites such as pork chile verde, beef stroganoff, and pasta with bolognese sauce are perfect for après ski meals or busy winter weeknights. Vegetables, often thrown together as an afterthought, will become center stage with tasty dishes like winter squash purée with brown butter and sage, artichokes braised in white wine, and braised fennel with garlic.
This book will help you make delicious, hearty meals— that usually take hours to make—in very little time. Instead of watching the pot all day to make your favorite stew or braise, you can enjoy an all-day activity while your pressure cooker does all the work.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published January 3, 2012
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April 12, 2012
Make a Pressure Cooker Your New Best Friend
Pressure cooker popularity rises and falls over time. Fortunately, they are trendy again. With improvements over the last decade or so in safety, that trend is well justified. In addition, the pressure cooker helps you turn affordable ingredients into amazing dishes in less time.
“The Pressure Cooker Cookbook” makes a great maiden voyage guide for those who want to learn how to use this specialized cooking vessel. The instructions are well-written and easy to follow. On the other hand, the flavors produced in the recipes remain sophisticated. If you are new to using a pressure cooker your taste buds don’t have to go back to kindergarten.
The specific combination of manageable techniques and sophisticated flavors really boosts the value of this lovely little book. The images are inspiring and helpful for the completed dish. I did, however, wish my version of the “Braised Chicken in Lemon-Basil Sauce” got the gorgeous color in the photo. I’m still working on matching that color. Of course the flavor was so great no one who tested the results found it lacking in any way. With the lemon slices cooked down tender while retaining the enlightened lemon flavor, any leftover lemon bits were fished out and devoured.
Another favorite was the “Moroccan-Style Tomato-Rice Soup.” The dish would be a fabulous, fast (only 9 minutes of cooking time) meal when fresh tomatoes reach over abundance. Keep the kitchen cool with this short-order dinner. The earthy spices play against naturally acidic tomatoes. The resulting flavor clears your palate and inspires just one more bite, then another and another. My husband wished for some lamb to accompany the soup—and we still finished all about ½ cup of the recipe!
Among all the satisfying flavors, one recipe really stood out. The results were an extra blessing as the main ingredient was on sale due to seasonal supply. I highly recommend “Curried Cauliflower Soup with Spicy Croutons.” You’ll be surprised how silky the soup is without any dairy, so it’s great for anyone who avoids animal or dairy products. The flavor surprised me. I just never expected cauliflower and curry to come together in a stunning relationship.
Roasted Cauliflower is a trendy recipe in many new cookbooks today, so the different twist on this ingredient got me in the kitchen to try it out. My head of cauliflower cost less than a dollar! With such great results more is coming soon. Even better, with your pressure cooker it’s only 5 minutes cooking time—what’s not to love! Find the recipe on my website.
Giving this cookbook a rare, 5-star rating may seem a bit of stretch. However, it’s about the sum of the parts being greater than each alone. First, using a pressure cooker means you spend less time preparing meals and more time eating good food. In addition, you get impressive results with affordable ingredients: definitely a plus in today’s reality. Last and certainly not least, the book is actually affordable as well. Most books offering this level of flavor and photographs will cost you more. The size of the book is a little smaller and most likely is where the savings comes in for the publication. You know what, you won’t care! The retail price is a small splurge, it will be easy to fit on your bookshelf, and you’ll come back to these recipes over and over. In my world that is the ideal cookbook for my kitchen.
So grab a copy of “The Pressure Cooker Cookbook” and try a new recipe. Invite someone over to share it with you: it’s time to Cook! Eat! And Laugh! You don’t need fois gras or truffles on your table to have a great time and feast on fabulous food.
Pressure cooker popularity rises and falls over time. Fortunately, they are trendy again. With improvements over the last decade or so in safety, that trend is well justified. In addition, the pressure cooker helps you turn affordable ingredients into amazing dishes in less time.
“The Pressure Cooker Cookbook” makes a great maiden voyage guide for those who want to learn how to use this specialized cooking vessel. The instructions are well-written and easy to follow. On the other hand, the flavors produced in the recipes remain sophisticated. If you are new to using a pressure cooker your taste buds don’t have to go back to kindergarten.
The specific combination of manageable techniques and sophisticated flavors really boosts the value of this lovely little book. The images are inspiring and helpful for the completed dish. I did, however, wish my version of the “Braised Chicken in Lemon-Basil Sauce” got the gorgeous color in the photo. I’m still working on matching that color. Of course the flavor was so great no one who tested the results found it lacking in any way. With the lemon slices cooked down tender while retaining the enlightened lemon flavor, any leftover lemon bits were fished out and devoured.
Another favorite was the “Moroccan-Style Tomato-Rice Soup.” The dish would be a fabulous, fast (only 9 minutes of cooking time) meal when fresh tomatoes reach over abundance. Keep the kitchen cool with this short-order dinner. The earthy spices play against naturally acidic tomatoes. The resulting flavor clears your palate and inspires just one more bite, then another and another. My husband wished for some lamb to accompany the soup—and we still finished all about ½ cup of the recipe!
Among all the satisfying flavors, one recipe really stood out. The results were an extra blessing as the main ingredient was on sale due to seasonal supply. I highly recommend “Curried Cauliflower Soup with Spicy Croutons.” You’ll be surprised how silky the soup is without any dairy, so it’s great for anyone who avoids animal or dairy products. The flavor surprised me. I just never expected cauliflower and curry to come together in a stunning relationship.
Roasted Cauliflower is a trendy recipe in many new cookbooks today, so the different twist on this ingredient got me in the kitchen to try it out. My head of cauliflower cost less than a dollar! With such great results more is coming soon. Even better, with your pressure cooker it’s only 5 minutes cooking time—what’s not to love! Find the recipe on my website.
Giving this cookbook a rare, 5-star rating may seem a bit of stretch. However, it’s about the sum of the parts being greater than each alone. First, using a pressure cooker means you spend less time preparing meals and more time eating good food. In addition, you get impressive results with affordable ingredients: definitely a plus in today’s reality. Last and certainly not least, the book is actually affordable as well. Most books offering this level of flavor and photographs will cost you more. The size of the book is a little smaller and most likely is where the savings comes in for the publication. You know what, you won’t care! The retail price is a small splurge, it will be easy to fit on your bookshelf, and you’ll come back to these recipes over and over. In my world that is the ideal cookbook for my kitchen.
So grab a copy of “The Pressure Cooker Cookbook” and try a new recipe. Invite someone over to share it with you: it’s time to Cook! Eat! And Laugh! You don’t need fois gras or truffles on your table to have a great time and feast on fabulous food.
June 22, 2013
Just got my first pressure cooker, so I checked this book out from the library. Great little book for a novice! It gives just the right amount of information about pressure cookers past and present as well as tips for success. The recipes aren't too challenging which makes cooking for the first time stress-free. I made pork tacos the first day I had the cooker and was very happy with the results. Two days later I tried the bbq pork recipe and was giddy from the simplicity. Awesome pork sandwiches in an hour! So now I've gone from fearing pressure cookers to wanting to use it all the time. Thank you, Tori Ritchie!
March 25, 2012
I really liked the history given about the pressure cooking and how it is used today. It was very informative about how to choose between electric or stove top.
I recently purchased my first electric pressure cooker and found that this book answered a lot of questions I had about using it first and the variety of meals I can make with it. I look forward to using my pressure cooker real soon and finding more recipes.
I can't comment on how the recipes taste, because I haven't tried them yet, but I know the Parmesan Risotto will be my first. I can't believe it will cook in 6 minutes. :D
I recently purchased my first electric pressure cooker and found that this book answered a lot of questions I had about using it first and the variety of meals I can make with it. I look forward to using my pressure cooker real soon and finding more recipes.
I can't comment on how the recipes taste, because I haven't tried them yet, but I know the Parmesan Risotto will be my first. I can't believe it will cook in 6 minutes. :D
July 21, 2016
Excellent pressure cooking cookbook! I checked this out from the library, made a few recipes, loved them, then bought a copy of the book myself.
The recipes are easy to follow and work great with an electric pressure cooker.
Recommended! Love the pictures, too.
The recipes are easy to follow and work great with an electric pressure cooker.
Recommended! Love the pictures, too.
February 16, 2015
I love the photos. Recipes are easy enough. Well written. I just didn't care for final product on the recipes I tried.
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