Showing posts with label Pressure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pressure. Show all posts

2011-10-27

Making Chicken Soup Using Pressure Cookers

Among all pressure cooker recipes, one simple, healthy one everyone must know is the chicken soup. Used to rid flu and a great body warmer, the benefits of chicken soup is only made better using a pressure cooker.

First, gather the following ingredients. For the main flavoring, get a pack of chicken breasts that has a lot of skin. The additional flavorings can be made using the following vegetables: carrots, parsnips, shallots, and garlic. To make the soup more fragrant, also include herbs like dill and parsley, as well as salt and pepper.

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The first thing you will want to do is to cook the chicken. In order to do this, put the chicken into the cooker's pot and fill enough water until its pressure is increased to its maximum. Then, heat the pot on medium-high until the indicator indicates that enough pressure is built. You can then set the heat to low, and leave it be for 20 minutes.

Making Chicken Soup Using Pressure Cookers

After the 20 minutes, turn the heat off and leave the pressure cooker on its own until the pressure drops down low enough for the pot to open on its own. An alternative is to run cold water over the lid so that the cooling process will be faster. When the soup has become slightly cooler to deal with, pick up the chicken breasts with a strainer. Remove the bones, and then put the meat back into the pot of soup.

As the taste of the soup will not be as fragrant without any herbs, add some water, the remaining ingredients listed earlier according to your liking. This way, you will not need to add in any artificial flavorings, as the flavors would have come from these ingredients instead. Make sure your ingredients are fresh in order to get the best of its nutrients. Cook these for an additional 5 minutes, and let it cool naturally.

Making Chicken Soup Using Pressure Cookers

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2011-10-09

Smart Pressure Cooker - Smart Chef

Forget all the horror stories you hear about Grandma's pressure cooker. To save time, taste and nutrition is a method of cooking pressure cookers today safe and reliable. You can go home at 7:00 and has a complete food, fresh and homemade on the table before 7:30 or even earlier. Put the wet food, microwave soft behind you, and be ready to accept the adulation of his family worships.

This is like a pressure cooker works its magic. The locks on the cover or lidplace creating a closed system in a standard 15 pounds of pressure. This reduces the water pressure at 257 degrees F instead of 212 degrees F. The higher temperature cooks the food quickly. Three times faster than regular cooking methods. Potatoes cooked in small and medium-sized five minutes, and a whole chicken cooks dinner "roast" in just twenty minutes. All foods, vegetables, in particular, retain their color and flavor. The nutrients are trapped in the well, instead ofdissipating in a cloud of steam.

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For family use the Kuhn Rikon 7 liter stainless steel pressure cooker is the gold standard. An aluminum disk in the base, sandwiched by stainless steel, cooks evenly on gas, electric, ceramic and induction stovetops. That old, dancing pressure valve that scared the beejezus out of your grandmother is replaced with modern safety features that quietly regulate pressure and keep the lid safely locked while the contents are pressurized.

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Presto pressure cookers have been around for a long time and offer a variety of different sized stainless steel and aluminum pots. Professional chefs prefer a stainless pressure cooker because it is nonreactive and can be safely cleaned in a dishwasher, but aluminum is also a good choice if weight is a consideration. You want heat resistant double handles, one on each side of the pot, in every case. A 6 quart pressure cooker is minimum family size. Go larger if you will use it as a canner.

You are better off sticking with a name brand manufacturer even when price is your primary consideration. Quality control is likely to be better but more importantly you want to be able to get replacement parts when you need them five or ten years from now. Valves get lost. Gaskets wear out or get damaged. A loose fitting lid doesn't affect your stock pot but it will put your pressure cooker out of business.

Many models come with useful accessories like racks, trivets or vegetable steamers which keep food from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Most chefs brown meats before attaching the lid so sticking does occur. You may still want to avoid nonstick interiors, however. The occasional inconvenience of a little extra cleaning far outweighs the risk of a pitted or peeling interior coating. Nonstick interiors are less of a potential problem with electric pressure cookers.

Cuisinart makes a programmable electric pressure cooker worth considering. Priced between the Presto and the Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker its push-button controls and digital display make an attractive package. The Cuisnart can be programmed for high or low pressure cooking, browning, simmering, sauteing or warming. And you got to admit that an electronic thermostat is more foolproof than setting a stovetop control to a precise position. You do give up some flexibility, however, because you can't open the lid until the cooker says you can. With the stove top models you can instantly drop the pressure and open the lid by putting the unit under cold water.

Dozens of specialized pressure cooking recipe books are available.

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2011-10-05

Cooking Beans in Pressure Cooker

OK, so you have one of these amazing vessels and now you're thinking of cooking the beans in a pressure cooker. In fact this is one of the simplest things you can do. It 's fast, easy and very tasty.

Once you have cooked grains, which are ready to be used in a wide variety or recipes, even recipes canned beans. They are soft and tasty, and everything you need to remember is to adjust the seasoning.

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So here's the basic method:

Cooking Beans in Pressure Cooker

I always start bysoaking the beans in hot water for an hour. Place the beans in a suitable bowl, pour boiling water over them and soak for an hour.

After the soaking process, drain them and place them in your pot. Cover them with water, up to a few inches above them and close your pot. Now you can place it on the stove and cook it at the highest pressure for about thirty minutes and you're done. You are now ready to make any dish you desire with them.

You will be surprised at how soft and tasty they will be. Now you can use any of your favorite recipes to make tasty bean dishes. Our family particularly loves a nice thick and tasty soup. I add lots of stuff such as fried bacon, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes and veggies to it.

All you have to do with it now is cook it for about another fifteen minutes to thirty minutes and your soup is ready. The time will depend on the amount of veggies you add and how finely you have chopped them.

One very important thing I have to draw your attention to is, never add salt to them until they are completely soft. If you add the salt before that, you will never get them really soft no matter how long you cook them!

So, as you can see, cooking beans in a pressure cooker is really fast and easy.

Cooking Beans in Pressure Cooker

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