Pressure Cooker Recipes
Braised Pine Nuts with Butternut Squash
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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.