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Pressure Perfect: Two Hour Taste in Twenty Minutes Using Your Pressure Cooker
By Lorna J. Sass
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2004
Oxtail Stew : page 121
Deep bold flavor and very rich! I've had a hankering for oxtail ever since reading this review by @AJ12754 nearly a year ago. I was also intrigued by the idea of pressure cooking tougher cuts of meat - I think inspired by an episode of masterchef.
This recipe entails cooking the oxtails in a wine-broth-onion mixture for a full 30 minutes! One reduced the wine before pressure cooking, and I used a home-made chicken broth in place of the beef broth. At the end, frozen peas are mixed in.
The result was almost too flavorful. Deep rich flavor, but so rich that one could only eat a small amount.
The leftover broth I used as a starting point for a minestrone-type soup, this time inspired by this recipe reviewed by @kfranzetta. I used a lot of celery, but instead of lentils I threw in a can of kidney beans.
Two successful dishes in one!
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Pasta with meat sauce : page 220
Very decent mid-week meal - and fast!
I used Italian Sausages in place of ground meat (Costco sweet italian pork sausages are really good), browned the meat, added onions, a quick saute, then vermouth. To this, you add some garlic, fennel seeds, water, and bring it to a boil. Then you add uncooked pasta and a can of crushed tomatoes (no stirring), seal up the pressure cooker, and bring to high pressure. Five minutes later your are releasing steam, stirring, waiting a few minutes, and serve!
Fewer dishes and perhaps better than pasta with prego, but not amazing. However, if you consider its only one dish, and that start to finish it takes less than half an hour, that is good.
DH loved it, but the pasta was not uniformly perfectly cooked. The instructions say to let it sit for 3 - 5 minutes. If I make this again, I'll let it sit for more like 8 to 10 minutes.
This is the basic recipe in this cookbook - it is followed by several good alternatives.
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