Day to day PressureCookery

Pressure cookers can save you a lot of time and money by turning tough meat tender in a matter of minutes. It also means that you're using the oven less and in hot places like Queensland, a warm kitchen is rarely a good thing.

While the following recipes may be adjusted for use in your thermomixer or slow cooker (I will pop the variations and times in), please note I'm actually only familar with the electronic kind, which is a feature of my multi-cooker. Use of a pressure cooker and slow cooker allows me to cook more food in one go as well as meat with bones.

 

For copyright reasons, I will not be putting in all the ingredients stated in the book. Don't own/cant find your D2DC? No worries... I will pop links to similar recipes in with my "method".

Day to day PressureCookery

Navarin of Lamb 

I have used neck chops instead of chump chops in my multi-cooker with success in this recipe. If using a thermomixer ensure to use bone-free meat such as sugested in this recipe, which also uses larger serves of vegetables (and may be too much for the thermomixer jar, in which case; use half and leave out pearl onions). Beef stock cube/paste or a tbsp of whatever passes for vegemite in your house is a nice addition too.

1a. If choosing to prep with thermomixer, sautae the onion and garlic (heat oil 120/S/1 min, programme 100/5/5 add quartered onions and garlic to spining blades), if not using MyCook, whiz onion and garlic on sp 5 and cook 100/1/5 min.

1b. Set multicooker to brown and cook diced onion and garlic till transparent, then remove from the bowl. 

2. Trim fat from lamb and coat with flour, melt more oil in machine of choice and brown lamb 120/1/5-6 minutes, if not using MyCook, use blunt blades/reverse.

3a. Add canned tomatoes (with juice), tomato paste, add onion and garlic, herbs and cook 120/1/20 mins MC on. Add peeled, sliced veggies around the meat cook 120/1/20-45 minutes, MC on, till lamb is soft.

3b. Add canned tomatoes (with juice), tomato paste, add onion and garlic, herbs and peeled, sliced veggies around the meat. Set pressure cooker for 45 minutes.

For a slow cooker set 6 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high. Every slow cooker is different so keep a check on it.

Irish Stew

I love stew, especially on a cold night - but even in summer I like it too (just not a hot kitchen). Here is a much larger but similar recipe to our D2DC.

1.  Layer the meat (which has been coated in flour) and vegetables in the pressure/slow cooker bowl and season with salt and pepper. 

2. Cover with liquid (stock and sauce).

3a. Set pressure cooker for 45 minutes.

3b. For a slow cooker set 6 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high. Every slow cooker is different so keep a check on it. 

Curry and Rice 

This is a sweet curry, a similar recipe can be found here which includes some optional extras. D2DC offers a carrot or tomato, I have used both and it was nice too. 

1a. If choosing to prep with thermomixer, sautae the apple, curry powder, onion and carrot/tomato (heat oil 120/S/1 min, programme 100/5/5 add quartered onions, peeled quartered apples and sliced carrot to spining blades), if not using MyCook, whiz onion and garlic on sp 4 and cook 100/1/5 min.

1b. Set multicooker to brown and cook diced onion, carrot/tomato, apple and curry powder till transparent.

2. Add sultanas sugar, pepper, lemon juice and 1 1/4 cups of water. 

3a. Trim fat from meat and coat with flour, 100/1/55-65 minutes, until meat is soft. MC should be in if not using MyCook, use blunt blades/reverse.

3b. Trim fat from meat and coat with flour, and set pressure cooker for 40 minutes. For a slow cooker set 6 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high. Every slow cooker is different so keep a check on it. Sauce should be thickened in the last hour of cooking.