This Old Gal's Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 120 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Your Instant Pot and Pressure Cooker

by Jill Selkowitz

Whether you are new to the electric pressure cooker or are looking to get more out of yours, this is your go-to reference for perfectly pressure-cooked and delicious food. Incorporate from-scratch cooking into your busy life with 120 recipes that include all the traditional favorites, plus a range of international dishes—and the best cheesecake recipe you will ever taste!

Are you looking for more creative ways to cook with your electric pressure cooker or Instant Pot (or any other brand of multicooker?) Do you have a pressure cooker that has been sitting in your cupboard since your wedding shower? This is the perfect pressure-cooking companion. Millions of people visit This Old Gal blog to access Jill’s simple-to-make and satisfying pressure cooker recipes, and now you can have her classic favorites at your fingertips, along with brand-new, never-before-seen recipes.

Want to learn how to make Bacon Butternut Pasta? How about Drive-Thru Tacos? Beef Stroganoff? Or Chicken Tikka Masala? With step-by-step recipes that have been extensively tested and perfected, Jill will show you how to use your pressure cooker to make anything—appetizers, pastas, meats, grains, breakfast, desserts, and more (including pot-in-pot recipes). You’ll find tried and true pressure cooker favorites, plus an array of flavors from around the world in Indian, Mexican, Thai, Italian, Chinese, and Jewish dishes. You'll never be at a loss for a delicious meal! 

This Old Gal Tips throughout give variations, shopping tips, substitutions, and recipe and cooking time adjustments. There’s even space to jot down your cooking notes.

This Old Gal’s Pressure Cooker Cookbook demystifies the electric pressure cooker, setting you free to explore its endless possibilities for creative cooking.

• ISBN13: 9781631064883
• Publish Date: 27 September 2018 (first published 25 September 2018)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Race Point Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 196
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Food in many cultures is more than just nutrition. Cooking and feeding our friends and loved ones, the whole idea of hospitality and eating is cultural identity and a way to strengthen bonds of friendship and love. Philosophy aside, comfort food is probably a part of most of our lives and the author of this cookbook 'gets it'.

This Old Gal's Pressure Cooker Cookbook is packed full of recipes for new and old comfort food favorites. With the addition of pressure cooker preparation, these recipes are tasty and convenient.

One thing I really liked about this cookbook was the addition of a large number of ethnic favorites. Hot and sour soup is one of the things I always order in a new-to-me Chinese restaurant. This version of the standard ubiquitous spicy soup was a perfect blend of spicy and succulent. It's -definitely- on the standard family recipe list now. This version is vegetarian friendly and nicely spicy but not overly so.

Beef and broccoli is another one of those Chinese restaurant standards that very few people bother to make at home. The recipe in this collection is a nice substitute. We honestly didn't find it exactly like the restaurant version, but it was certainly a wholesome (and cost effective) substitute.

The third tryout from this collection in our case was another ethnic recipe... in this case sweet and sour stuffed cabbage. I hail from a very 'mixed' family and this eastern European/Jewish dish was a staple comfort food from my childhood and my wonderful stepmom. I have such fond memories of this dish growing up and this version is wonderful.

I review a fair number of cookbooks and this one was really great. Well prepared flavorful dishes made from easily sourced raw materials. There is a really wide variety of cultural cuisine covered, from Jewish to Asian to fusion to good ol' American. The photography is well done and the dishes themselves are superlative.

I find nothing at all to detract from this being a useful staple cookbook in the kitchen.

Five stars. I'm going to try all of these.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.