If you don’t have an electric pressure cooker in your home, you need to think twice because the pressure cooker like Instant Pot, is handy. An electronic pressure cooker can do things that were once limited to stove top or oven. It makes cooking so much easier and less stressful. If you are looking for a good pressure cooker recipe, here are some of the easiest food recipes using an electronic pressure cooker.
Brown rice
Brown rice is your typical rice because it is more nutritious and more expensive compared to commercial white rice. Not only that, brown rice is tough to cook. If you mess the rice-to-water ratio, it will be either mushy and soupy or hard and undercooked. If you leave the rice too long in the fire, it will come out dry or burnt. Cooking brown rice will take 45 minutes to one hour. Using instant pot will make cooking brown rice a lot easier. An electric pressure cooker can be used as a rice cooker with little to no babysitting on your part. If you are using instant pot when cooking brown rice, you can 2 to 2 and a half cups of water according to food blog www.ourbestbites.com. Cook it from 20 to 25 minutes and open the pressure pipes to release some pressure for 5 to 10 minutes. The rice will turn out flavorful and fluffy.
Cheesecake
Cheesecake is one of the most popular cakes that is very hard to do. If you are making it homemade, it rarely turns out good compared to the one you ordered in sweet shops. Compared to other cakes, cheesecakes need to be cooked in a hot water bath. If you don’t do this, the cake will end up with cracks, and the top will break. It is also time-consuming because you need two hours to prep the ingredients, two hours to cook and ten to fifteen minutes to cool. It is an all-day affair. Instant pot can make cooking cheesecake very easy. According to the blog site Little Spice Jar, you need to prepare the cheese filling and the Graham cracker crust the way you usually do and place the cake in a steaming rack inside an electric pressure cooker with2 cups of water beneath. Instead of a water bath, you steam the cake inside the pressure cooker, ensuring a perfectly stable and smooth top. Cook the cake in high pressure for 38 minutes. After cooking, let the instant pot release its pressure for 20 minutes and your cake is baked in under an hour.
Poached eggs
It is not easy to cook a perfect poached egg. If you do it right, you will get a perfect white pillow with its yolk runny the moment you pierced it with your knife or fork. If you do it wrong, your egg with wispy and rugged egg white and broken or overcooked yolk. Cooking poached egg in stove involves dropping the egg in boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar and stirring it gently. If you use a pressure cooker in cooking poach an egg, is like cooking a hard-boiled egg. You can use silicone cups instead of directly putting it into the boiling water. Put the cups insist the steaming rack with one cup of water. Seal the lid of the pot and steam the egg for 3 to 5 minutes and your perfect poached egg is ready.
Mac and cheese
Mac and cheese are one of the most popular comfort foods on the planet. It also requires hard work and patience to cook it. You need to cook the pasta, make the Roux, make the cheese sauce and bake it all together inside the oven. If you are using an electronic pressure cooker, you will save time, and instead of using a lot of pots, you are just using one pot. You can put all the ingredients that include the pasta, butter, water, and seasonings, inside the pressure cooker and leave it to cook for at least 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, release the pressure and add milk and shredded cheeses. Mix the ingredients and enjoy the gooey and cheesy Mac and cheese in less than an hour.
Baked potatoes
Baked potatoes are not tricky and time-consuming to make. It will only take 30 to 45 minutes to make it. But if you don’t want to wait that long, you can use a pressure cooker to make it faster and simpler. According to Self-Proclaimed Foodie, you only need to add a cup of water to your pressure cooker, place the potatoes in the steaming rack and close the lid. Cook it for 10 to 20 minutes and release the pressure cap. Wait 10 minutes and enjoy your soft and creamy baked potatoes.