BajaNomad - pressure cooking...

pressure cooking...

rhintransit - 1-30-2009 at 06:48 PM

these cooler nights my pressure cooker and I are re-bonding. great meals, fast, and saves on propane. am wondering if anyone has any good recipes to share. and I'll post a few if there seems to be any interest.

vgabndo - 1-30-2009 at 07:05 PM

Well, I chunk up the yellowtail fillets and marinate them in a salt and Mrs. Bragg's mixture. Thoroughly air dry them, and kipper in the smoker for half an hour and can them in half pints in the pressure cooker for 110 minutes at 11 lbs.

Now, mix the contents of a jar with equal quantities of Mayo, Crema, and half a can of Herdez Salsa Casera, break out the Totopos and stand back. :lol:

longlegsinlapaz - 1-30-2009 at 07:14 PM

If you get desperate or exhaust your creative culinary skills, try crock pot recipes! Same theory, just faster in a pressure cooker! :yes:

BajaNuts - 1-30-2009 at 07:23 PM

for a more everyday cooking use,

pressure cookers work GREAT for beans. I make a black bean salsa and I use the pressure cooker to cook the beans. Unfortuantely the recipe I have is commercial quantities, but it can be scaled down.

I use a Large pressure cooker, approx 15" diameter and 24" tall.

Put 1 gallon dry beans (sorted, of course) and 2 gallons water in the cooker. here's a hint.........I put spices into the cooking water (chili powder, garlic and onion powder, salt, cumin, etc, could add chiles and onions.....).

I bring it up to high pressure (don't have the cooker in front of me, but I think it's about 15#). Maintain pressure for 50 minutes and ......

almost 3 gallons of cooked beans! Sure beats the open pot for 5 hours.

This ratio leaves a little bit of water around the beans and the beans are still intact, not totally mush. Cook for a little longer (maybe 15 minutes) for softer beans.

As always the food service experience comes out..........
If you have a large cooker like this kind and want to cook up a large pot of beans, portion them out into pints or quarts and freeze them for easy future use.

rhintransit - 1-30-2009 at 07:43 PM

hey, yum and thanks so far. I'm mostly doing pot roast, chicken, pork dishes so far. will write out a few recipes tomorrow and post.

as for crockpot, yes, in the states I like to use one, however they require electricity and for us off the grid folks aren't an option. I figured there would be some campers, RV'er's, cruisers with favorite recipes to share.

vgabndo - 1-30-2009 at 07:46 PM

I have a fishing guide friend who lives VERY simply, he uses his little pressure cooker to turn poor cuts of Mexican beef into tender morsels lickety split. He treasures it for that.

I might add that the juice that cooks out of the fish, if mixed into the makins for your Mariscos Veracruzana salsa recipe is instant rich flavor with a touch of smoke.

[Edited on 1-31-2009 by vgabndo]

woody with a view - 1-30-2009 at 08:54 PM

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I have a fishing guide friend who lives VERY simply, he uses his little pressure cooker to turn poor cuts of Mexican beef into tender morsels lickety split. He treasures it for that.

my granny used to do the same thing with some shoe leather cuts of beef?!!! :light:

gnukid - 1-30-2009 at 09:13 PM

Carnitas in pressure cooker

2 kilos pork shoulder with the bone - cut into 1-2" pieces
5 cloves of galric
1 quartered onion
1 teaspoon salt
ground pepper, spice to tatste
teaspoon olive oil

15 minutes
Brown meat while turning often at med-high temp leave slightly uncovered.

60 minutes reduce to simmer and leave covered and closed.

Turn off heat and let cool for 15 minutes before opening

Turn up the heat, reduce down the fluid, crisp meat as desired.

Ya!

longlegsinlapaz - 1-30-2009 at 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by rhintransit
as for crockpot, yes, in the states I like to use one, however they require electricity and for us off the grid folks aren't an option. I figured there would be some campers, RV'er's, cruisers with favorite recipes to share.

I meant using crock pot recipes....but cooked in the pressure cooker.

vandenberg - 1-31-2009 at 08:51 AM

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Originally posted by longlegsinlapaz
I meant using crock pot recipes....but cooked in the pressure cooker.

Carol,
Glad you clarified that.
I was just ready to put the crockpot in the pressure cooker.
We have a large one. :biggrin:

[Edited on 1-31-2009 by vandenberg]

rhintransit - 1-31-2009 at 10:56 AM

French Dip Sandwiches

3 pounds of whatever looks like a beef chuck roast
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 tsp seasoned salt, or plain
1/2 tsp black pepper
3 cups beef broth, from cubes or cans or homemade
1 bay leaf
2 cloves of garlic (more never hurts!)

put meat on rack in pressure cooker, sprinkle with all spices, add broth, bay leaf and garlic. close and process medium high heat, slow steady rocking for one hour.
remove from heat, reduce pressuce, remove beef, pull apart with two forks, discard bay leaf and garlic. serve on french bread with broth for dipping

Joy of Cooking has a GREAT French Bread recipe for this.

more recipes to come, keep yours coming...