Pressure cooking makes multi-step recipes into simple one-pot recipes that are not only easy to make but family and child friendly, tasty, and not compromising on nutritional value. Pressure cookers are must-haves in most Indian families, but often their use is limited to cooking rice, lentils or steaming vegetables. The recipe list below opens doors to a number of options that make cooking simple, healthy, and clean. Here are the 10 best pressure cooker recipes you should know this 2021.
10 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes You Should Know This 2021
1. Lentils and Vegetables rice
Wash and soak 1 cup rice and half a cup of moong dal. In your Premier Cucina Trendy Black Induction Bottom Handi Pressure Cooker With Glass Lid, add a spoon of oil and sauté, 2 green chillies, an inch of ginger chopped, 1 onion finely chopped. Once the onions are translucent add vegetables of your choice and sauté with turmeric, ½ spoon of cumin powder and ½ spoon of coriander powder.
Now add the soaked rice and dal, with 2 cups of water and desired amount of salt. Close the lid of your Premier pressure cooker and wait for 3-4 whistles for the rice and lentils to cook. Remember to wait for the pressure to release before you serve the tasty lentil rice with a dollop of ghee!
2. Bisi Bhele Bhaat
Preparing a sambar rice is often thought of as an arduous task. Let us simplify it by making a one pot sambar rice. Wash and soak rice and dal for 20 minutes. (1 cup rice and ½ cup of toor dal). Soak a small gooseberry sized tamarind and extract tamarind juice. In your Premier Express Trendy Black Aluminium Pressure Cooker Pan, heat one spoon of oil or ghee and Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida. Once the mustard and cumin crackle, add shallots and sauté them.
Next add vegetables of your choice and sauté. Next, add in the tamarind extract, some jaggery and two spoons of sambar powder (store bought or homemade). Now add the rice and toor dal, your desired amount of salt. Cook for 4-5 whistles and cook till rice and dal turn mushy. Once you turn off your cooker, sprinkle some chopped coriander for added flavour.
3. Beans Sabzi
Add two spoons of oil to your Premier Stainless Steel Induction Bottom Handi Pressure Cooker and add a spoon of mustard, a generous amount of urad dal and curry leaves. Finely chop beans and add it to the pressure cooker once mustard seeds splutter. Top this with fresh coconut and salt and sprinkle some water before you close the lid.
Adjust the heat such that the first whistle comes in 2-3 minutes. Switch off after the first whistle and a traditional south Indian beans curry is ready to serve.
4. Pal Payasam
Using a cooker for making a traditional pal payasam for your favorite celebration and festivals can be simple and hassle free. Start by sauteing ¼ cup rice in your Premier Cucina Trendy Black Induction Bottom Handi Pressure Cooker with a generous amount of ghee. Now add 1.5-2 litres of milk. Once milk comes to a boil, cover the lid, and cook on low flame for another 20 minutes. Turn the cooker off and once the pressure is released, add 1 cup of sugar, sauteed cashew and cardamom.
Now switch on the flame once again and place the whistle on the cooker lid. Cook for another 20 minutes on low flame and turn off. An optional step is to add half a tin of condensed milk. Your flavorful payasam is ready to serve for your celebrations.
5. Quick Punjabi Chole
To your Premier Commercial Aluminium Pressure Cooker add oil and add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and cumin seeds. Once the cumin crackles, fry one large finely chopped onion till it turns translucent. Next add a spoon of ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell has gone. To this, add finely chopped tomatoes or tomato puree of two medium sized tomatoes.
Once this is cooked, add all spice mix – turmeric, Kashmiri red chilli, amchur, dry ginger, anardana powder and a spoon of garam masala. Add soaked chickpeas with 2 cups of water and required salt. Close the lid and cook for 5-6 whistles on medium flame. Top your Punjabi chole with some kasuri methi and serve with roti or rice.
6. Kerala Stew
Heat coconut oil in your cooker and add cardamom pods, cinnamon, and cloves. Fry ginger, garlic, green chili, and onions (1 onion, long and thinly sliced). Add cauliflower, carrot, beans and potato and fry. Add a pinch of white pepper powder and salt. Cook for 1-2 whistles. Meanwhile blend cashew and coconut milk.
Open your Premier Appy Trendy Black Induction Bottom Inner Lid Pressure Cooker 3 Ltr, add coconut milk and cook for 2-3 minutes and turn off the flame. Kerala style vegetable stew is ready to serve.
7. Andhra Style Mango Pappu
To make a one pot mango dal, start with tempering with mustard, cumin, red chili, and curry leaves. Once they crackle, add 2 garlic cloves and finely chopped ginger. Next add one finely chopped onion and fry. Add 1 cup toor dal and 1 chopped raw mango to the cooker and add salt as required. Using Premier Trendy Black Inner Lid Induction Bottom Pressure Cooker for 4-5 whistles till the dal and mango are mushy.
8. Dhokla
Mix 1 cup chickpea flour with 2 spoons of semolina, grated ginger, 1 spoon sugar, 1 spoon salt , a pinch of citric acid, turmeric, and asafoetida. Mix with ¾ cup of water and ensure it is lump free.
Pour the mix into a greased vessel. Place the vessel in a stand in your Premier Turn on Pressure cooker 5 Ltr Stainless Steel Induction Bottom filled with water to a height of two inches. Close the lid and steam for 5-7 minutes. To check if it is done, insert a knife and let it come out clean. Temper with mustard green chilli and curry leaves.
9. Tomato Soup
Crackle cumin in heated oil and fry 4-5 garlic pods. Add one roughly chopped onion and fry till translucent. To this, add 5 medium sized tomatoes and fry for 1 minute. Add salt and a few peppercorns and using Premier Aluminium Handi Pressure Cooker for 3 whistles. Once the pressure settles down and the mixture cools, blend this to a smooth soup.
Additionally, this can be cooked again in the cooker with a spoon of corn-starch if you like your soup thick. Nevertheless, your soup can be heated and served.
10. Instant Tomato Rasam
Heat oil and add garlic and cumin seeds. Once the cumin splutters, add tomato puree and ¼ cup of toor dal. And ¼ cup tamarind juice, rasam powder, turmeric powder ,salt and using Premier Inner Lid Aluminium Pressure Cooker for 3 whistles. Once the pressure is released, whisk the rasam and temper with mustard seeds.
Hope you try these recipes and experience the convenience of pressure cooking. A Premier pressure cooker is truly versatile, clean and hassle free and suited for all forms of cooking.
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