Pressure Cooker Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated April 24, 2017
The benefits of a pressure cooker include faster cooking times and less energy usage. These recipes—think warm white bean salad with smoked trout and pressure cooker pork carnitas—utilize the pressure cooker in ways both traditional and unexpected.
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Braised Pine Nuts with Butternut Squash

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In this risotto-like dish, the pressure cooker's intense heat penetrates the pine nuts' outer membranes and makes them soft inside.

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Sunflower-Seed Risotto

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Chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman of Memphis's Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen worked together to make this risotto. Their secret weapon: a pressure cooker.

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Warm White Bean Salad with Smoked Trout

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Dried beans are one of the best things to prepare in a pressure cooker: After a 30-minute quick-soak, the beans become creamy in just seven minutes.

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Veal Ragù with Porcini

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In the relatively brief time it takes for the veal chunks to become fork-tender in a pressure cooker (25 minutes versus 2 hours of conventional cooking), the carrot, onions and sage melt into a heavenly sauce.

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Honey-Glazed Spareribs

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These crispy, sweet-and-spicy pork spareribs are a hundred times better than Chinese takeout char siu ribs, and they're a particularly good example of what's so great about using a pressure cooker. Pork spareribs typically require very slow cooking--usually braising--to tenderize them before grilling. A pressure cooker does that braising in a fraction of the time.

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Caramelized Carrot Soup

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To caramelize carrots in a pressure cooker, Nathan Myhrvold adds a bit of baking soda: It increases the pH, which speeds up the Maillard (browning) reaction.

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Pressure Cooker Pork Carnitas

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"Pressure cooking is great for braises," says Modernist Cuisine co-author Maxime Bilet. "You can make pork shoulder tender in 35 minutes." Thanks to the rapid cooking time, this dish is a realistic weeknight meal.

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