Quick Potato Salad in the Pressure Cooker

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Old fashioned potato salad is a summer favorite at picnics and barbecues. My mom always made a big bowl of potato salad for family get togethers in the summer.  I use to dread making the potato salad, but making potato salad in the pressure cooker is quick and easy.

Instead of cooking the eggs and potatoes separately, I just nestle the eggs in between peeled and diced potatoes. After steaming them for four minutes on high in the pressure cooker, the potatoes are tender and the eggs are perfectly cooked.

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Smokey Beef Brisket in the Pressure Cooker

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My sister made beef brisket two years ago for a family Christmas party. It was so tender and flavorful I asked her for the recipe and I made it the following year for the family Christmas party as well. While I was making it, I thought this would make a great pressure cooker recipe, and I was right.

What’s great about this recipe is the smokey flavor the brisket gets from the liquid marinade. The brisket marinates overnight, but then only has a 1 hour cook time in the pressure cooker, compare with 6 – 8 hours in the oven.

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Easy Pork Chops in Mushroom Gravy

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Fork tender, fall off the bone pork chops in a creamy mushroom gravy. Served over creamy pressure cooker mashed potatoes for an old fashioned comfort food meal. 

When I got married 35 years ago, one of the meals my husband asked me to make was pork chops in mushroom gravy. It was a recipe that his mom made often and it was one of his favorites. Now it’s one of my kids’ favorites too.

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Lemon Rice in the Pressure Cooker

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Lemon rice cooks in the pressure cooker in just four minutes. It’s a perfect side dish for one of our favorite dishes, Greek Souvlaki. 

Souvlaki with Lemon Rice is a meal my family loves all year long, but especially when barbecue season comes around. I marinate cubed pork overnight in a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and marjoram. I skewer it and quickly grill it.

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Picante Chicken and Black Bean Soup in the Pressure Cooker

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When I was looking at Cinco de May recipes on Pinterest, I came across Skinny Taste’s Crockpot Picante Chicken and Black Bean Soup. I loved that it was a “skinny” recipe and I knew it would make a great pressure cooker recipe. I also loved that it would give me a good excuse to finally make black beans from scratch.

The soup is thickened with pureed black beans instead of cream. I used the soup setting on my Blendtec and blended until the beans were silky smooth.

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Root Beer Pulled Pork Sandwiches in the Pressure Cooker

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Tender pulled-pork in a sweet root beer barbecue sauce cooked in the pressure cooker for a slow cooked taste in a fraction of the time. 

Have you seen the new Recipe Girl Cookbook yet? It’s filled with wonderful recipes perfect for every day and special occasions. Lori recently gave me a copy of her cookbook to review. I’ve bookmarked several of the recipes to make, but her Root Beer Pulled Pork Sandiwch recipe seemed perfect for Pressure Cooking Today. I adapted it for the pressure cooker from her slow cooker recipe.

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Quick and Easy Spanish Rice

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We eat a lot of rice at our house and I always cook it in the pressure cooker. It’s super easy and cooks perfectly every time.

Since Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, and the perfect time to share my quick and easy Spanish Rice recipe. The rice only takes four minutes to cook in the pressure cooker, so it’s the perfect side dish for almost anything you’re cooking this year for Cinco de Mayo.

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Apple Cherry Breakfast Risotto

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A lightly sweetened risotto loaded with apples and dried cherries. A delightful way to start the day, and it’s ready in under 15 minutes when you make it in the pressure cooker.

Kalyn, Kalyn’s Kitchen, also blogs at Slow Cooker from Scratch. She recently posted a recipe roundup – 20 Delicious Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes from Food Bloggers. All 20 recipes looked delicious, but it was the Crockpot Breakfast Risotto from A Year of Slow Cooking that I decided I wanted to try first.

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Cooking up a Pot of Black Beans

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Today I’m featuring a pressure cooker recipe from MJ’s Kitchen. Black beans are MJ’s favorite bean and she doesn’t use canned beans because they’re often somewhat tasteless and mushy. She prefers to pressure cooks her beans which yields the best tasting beans possible in a relatively short period of time. My family prefers black beans too, so perhaps that’s why MJ’s post Cooking up a Pot of Black Beans caught my eye.

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Giveaway: Lowes Outdoor Grill with Built in Rotisserie

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All this week I’m doing giveaways on Barbara Bakes to help Carrian, Sweet Basil, celebrate her 29th birthday, and to celebrate my five year blogiversary and say thank you to all my wonderful readers for their support over the years. I decided my Pressure Cooker Today readers needed a thank you and a chance to win too. 

I love grilling in the summer. This summer my plan is to grill more often and use my pressure cooker to cook fantastic side dishes so I don’t have to heat up the kitchen using the oven.
I love grilling in the summer. This summer my plan is to grill more often and use my pressure cooker to cook fantastic side dishes so I don’t have to heat up the kitchen using the oven.

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