Create Healthy Meals in Minutes Using a Pressure Cooker
Creating healthy meals for your family is quick, easy and economical using your pressure cooker.
Here are a couple of recipes that will make you a hero in your family's eyes.
Chicken Stew Cut up a chicken into 1 inch chunks, brown in 1 tablespoon olive oil.
Add a couple of carrots sliced into 2 inch pieces, a couple of potatoes also cut up in pieces, 2 stalks of celery cut in pieces and an onion also chopped into pieces.
Add 1 ½ cup chicken broth.
Season with salt and pepper.
Put lid on and lock into place, set pressure at 10 or high, depending on your cooker.
Refer to the manual for the correct pressure and time.
It is always advisable to set the time for the ingredient that takes the longest to cook.
For this recipe 8 minutes should be just right.
Use the quick release method to lower the pressure.
When pressure is lowered, remove pressure cooker lid.
Remove chicken and vegetables to a bowl.
Mix 1 tablespoon flour with 1 tablespoon butter and whisk into liquid in pressure cooker.
This will thicken the liquid.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Return chicken and vegetables to pressure cooker and stir.
Ladle into a pretty bowl and watch your family eat with gusto! Here is another recipe.
Try this next St.
Patrick's day.
Corned Beef and Cabbage Place 3 pounds corned beef in the pressure cooker.
Add 4 cups water.
Quarter 4 potatoes and place in with the meat.
Place lid on pressure cooker and lock into place.
Bring pressure up to 10 pounds and cook for 55 minutes.
Check your manual for exact time in your own pressure cooker.
Use natural release method to bring down pressure.
When pressure is normal, remove meat and potatoes.
Make sure there is at least 1 cup of liquid and add one head of cabbage cut into quarters to the pressure cooker.
Place lid on and lock, bring pressure up to 10 pounds and cook for 3 minutes.
Use quick release methods to reduce pressure.
Remove cabbage with tongs.
Slice corned beef across the grain and place on a pretty platter, surround with the potatoes and cabbage.
Actually, who says you have to wait until St.
Patrick's Day? This dish is delicious anytime you want to eat it.
When planning the preparation time on any recipe, remember the time to bring the pressure up to cook is not included in actual cooking time.
So if you need to cook something for 10 minutes that would be 10 minutes plus the time to bring the pressure up.
This could be as quick as 5 minutes or as long as 50 minutes.
Here are a couple of recipes that will make you a hero in your family's eyes.
Chicken Stew Cut up a chicken into 1 inch chunks, brown in 1 tablespoon olive oil.
Add a couple of carrots sliced into 2 inch pieces, a couple of potatoes also cut up in pieces, 2 stalks of celery cut in pieces and an onion also chopped into pieces.
Add 1 ½ cup chicken broth.
Season with salt and pepper.
Put lid on and lock into place, set pressure at 10 or high, depending on your cooker.
Refer to the manual for the correct pressure and time.
It is always advisable to set the time for the ingredient that takes the longest to cook.
For this recipe 8 minutes should be just right.
Use the quick release method to lower the pressure.
When pressure is lowered, remove pressure cooker lid.
Remove chicken and vegetables to a bowl.
Mix 1 tablespoon flour with 1 tablespoon butter and whisk into liquid in pressure cooker.
This will thicken the liquid.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Return chicken and vegetables to pressure cooker and stir.
Ladle into a pretty bowl and watch your family eat with gusto! Here is another recipe.
Try this next St.
Patrick's day.
Corned Beef and Cabbage Place 3 pounds corned beef in the pressure cooker.
Add 4 cups water.
Quarter 4 potatoes and place in with the meat.
Place lid on pressure cooker and lock into place.
Bring pressure up to 10 pounds and cook for 55 minutes.
Check your manual for exact time in your own pressure cooker.
Use natural release method to bring down pressure.
When pressure is normal, remove meat and potatoes.
Make sure there is at least 1 cup of liquid and add one head of cabbage cut into quarters to the pressure cooker.
Place lid on and lock, bring pressure up to 10 pounds and cook for 3 minutes.
Use quick release methods to reduce pressure.
Remove cabbage with tongs.
Slice corned beef across the grain and place on a pretty platter, surround with the potatoes and cabbage.
Actually, who says you have to wait until St.
Patrick's Day? This dish is delicious anytime you want to eat it.
When planning the preparation time on any recipe, remember the time to bring the pressure up to cook is not included in actual cooking time.
So if you need to cook something for 10 minutes that would be 10 minutes plus the time to bring the pressure up.
This could be as quick as 5 minutes or as long as 50 minutes.
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