The Pressure Cooker Cookbook

With more than 150 delicious recipes for use with the latest time-saving, money saving kitchen gadget, the Pressure Cooker Cookbook will revolutionise your mealtimes

Now more than ever, the nation needs and wants to be able to cook in a quicker, easier, cheaper, healthier and greener way. Look no further than the pressure cooker! Guardian writer Catherine Phipps's mouth-watering recipe book, with stunning colour photography throughout, is the essential guide to cooking with the kitchen appliance that will save you both time and money! 
 
'This humdrum tool of grandmother's thrifty cooking is resurrected with an amazing amount of glamour' - The Times 
'Phipps's exceptional book shows that the pressure cooker has moved far beyond its spluttering, drab 1970s incarnation' - The Sunday Times 
'Recipes you'll want to cook' - The Financial Times 
'The holy grail of cheap, quick, delicious food' -- ***** Reader review 
'I just can't wait to cook more things from it' -- ***** Reader review 
'Changed my life' -- ***** Reader review 
'Inspirational!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Magical!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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Those who lead a busy life and often cook in a hurry will appreciate any time-saving kitchen hack. 
 
The pressure cooker is the number one gadget for people who want to slice huge chunks off the cooking time of meat, pulses and sauces. From ribs that fall off the bone, to stew, casserole or braised meat, a pressure cooker can achieve great results in under an hour. Pasta and rice can be made from scratch in less than 10 minutes; thrifty cooks can tenderise flavoursome cheap cuts in just 20 minutes and pulses can be cooked without having to soak them. Speed isn't the only advantage of pressure cookers - they also preserve nutrients and vitamins, as well as being a more economical way to cook. 
 
As a busy working mother, Guardian writer Catherine Phipps is wholly reliant on her pressure cooker to produce quick and easy one-pot meals for her family. Her authoritative guide is aimed at those who are new to pressure cookers as well as established fans. Alongside recipes ranging from pot-roast chicken and seafood risotto to Boston baked beans, pulled pork sandwiches and Scotch eggs, and even cheesecake and chocolate pots, Catherine offers handy tips on how to adapt conventional recipes for the pressure cooker, safety ideas and a guide to using certain ingredients. 
 
With 150 delicious recipes and beautiful colour photography throughout the Pressure Cooker Cookbook will revolutionise your mealtimes.

This humdrum tool of grandmother’s thrifty cooking is resurrected with an amazing amount of glamour... Phipps shows that high-pressure cooking isn’t only quick and economic, but a tool to treasure flavour.

If pressure cooking speaks to you of grannies, boiled-to-death pulses and explosions, Phipps shows you you’re wrong. Recipes you’ll want to cook, yes; but her writing style – precision with an almost retro gentleness – will seduce you completely.

Phipps’s exceptional book shows that the pressure cooker has moved far beyond its spluttering, drab 1970s incarnation... It is worth buying for the risotto recipes alone: perfect risotto in five minutes, with no stirring (really).

The Pressure Cooker Cookbook by first time author Catherine Phipps has genuinely changed the way I cook for the better... This book is a recipe for sanity. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, all I can say is: get one!

Catherine Phipps is a columnist for the Guardian's Word of Mouth food pages and a freelance food writer. She lives in London with her family.

Catherine Phipps

What shines through is her thoughtful approach… It’s a guide to making the best of your bird.

It’s rare to find a book that you know is going to be on your shelves forever but this chicken bible is just that… it’s the constant presence of her idiosyncratic voice that makes this book a delight.

It’s really useful. There are some delicious things here.

Whether it’s frying or stewing, smoking or grilling, this informative book shows chicken lovers how to get the best out of their bird.

Over two hundred recipes devoted to one glorious bird

Chicken tonight? 
 
Fried, flambéed, roasted, barbecued, smoked, stewed, grilled, put in a sandwich or made into soup … the versatility of chicken knows no bounds and this book contains every recipe for chicken that you will ever need. 
 
From Double-crusted Chicken Pie, the Best Roast Chicken and Chicken Pâté to Baked Italian Meatballs, Confit Chicken, Butter Chicken and Chicken in a Mountain there are recipes old and new to tempt and inspire you. 
 
This is a culinary world tour, with over 200 recipes using a vast array of flavours, and a chicken lover’s feast.

Catherine Phipps

Praise for Chicken

What shines through is her thoughtful approach… It’s a guide to making the best of your bird.

It’s rare to find a book that you know is going to be on your shelves forever but this chicken bible is just that… it’s the constant presence of her idiosyncratic voice that makes this book a delight.

It’s really useful. There are some delicious things here.

What shines through is her thoughtful approach… It’s a guide to making the best of your bird.

It’s rare to find a book that you know is going to be on your shelves forever but this chicken bible is just that… it’s the constant presence of her idiosyncratic voice that makes this book a delight.

It’s really useful. There are some delicious things here.

What shines through is her thoughtful approach… It’s a guide to making the best of your bird.

It’s rare to find a book that you know is going to be on your shelves forever but this chicken bible is just that… it’s the constant presence of her idiosyncratic voice that makes this book a delight.

It’s really useful. There are some delicious things here.

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