The responsibility of providing freshly cooked meals daily can get stressful especially if you’re working long hours at the office. After a long day at work, the thought of having to cook a complete meal from scratch may seem farfetched.
However, what if you were told that it is possible to cook a complete meal without having to stand in the kitchen and all you need is one pot (which equates to less dishes to wash!).
A pressure cooker is a tool to consider for every modern family. All you’ll need to do is to put all the ingredients in a pot, turn on the cooker and allow it to cook while you complete other chores. Here are some simple recipes that you could whip up in a jiffy with a pressure cooker.
Creamy Chicken & Veggies
Ingredients
- 2 Whole chicken breast, sliced
- 1 Carrot, chopped
- 200 g Fresh button mushrooms
- 1 tbsp Thyme
- 200g Cauliflower florets
- 200g Mozzarella
- 1 tsp Ground black pepper
- 4 Baby potatoes,
- 100g Baby spinach, sliced into half
- ½ cup, Milk
- A pinch of sea salt (optional)
Method
- Place all ingredients in the pressure cooker pot, except for baby spinach, sea salt and black pepper.
- Cook in pressure cooker for 30 minutes. If you own an electric pressure cooker, simply put it at Poultry mood with the keep pressure time (KPT) of 30 minutes.
- Once cooked, carefully release the pressure, be careful of the hot steam.
- Then, mix baby spinach, black pepper and salt if necessary.
Note: Mozzarella cheese contains salt and it may be sufficient to flavour the dish.
Soy sauce chicken with Mushrooms
Ingredients
- Whole chicken thighs, chopped into pieces
- 1 tbsp Oyster sauce
- 2 tsp Light soy sauce
- 1 tsp Thick soy sauce
- 1 tsp Ground white pepper
- 2 tsp Sesame oil
- 1 tbsp Cooking wine (optional)
- Shiitake mushrooms, sliced
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 1 ½ cups Water
- Spring onion, chopped
Method
- Marinate chicken thighs with oyster sauce, dark and light soy sauce, white pepper, sesame oil and cooking wine (if desired).
- Then, rinse desired amount of rice and place into pressure cooker.
- Fill the pot with the right amount of water to cook the rice.
- Then, place marinated pieces of chicken thighs together with mushrooms and the leftover sauce into the pot.
- Cook in pressure cooker for 20 minutes (or longer if you’re cooking more rice).
- Once pressure is released, gently stir rice and garnish with spring onion.
Tips:
Be careful when manually releasing the pressure from your pressure cooker. Do stand away from the device and use a long ladle to release pressure.
