Pressure Cooker Main Dish Recipes

"Lamb shanks are a great meat for novice pressure cookers. The lamb is a great cut of meat with a rich flavor. With traditional cooking, you are looking at a good 2 hours, with the Pressure Cooker just 30 minutes!! The recipe comes from "The New Pressure Cooker Cookbook by Pat Dailey, a great book. Honestly, I didn't taste the garlic that much,..."

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Ingredients: pepper, dried rosemary...

"I love carnitas and the pressure cooker really makes this a quick, done, deal with all the flavor still sealed in. I will never make it another way!"

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Ingredients: cumin, dried chipotle powder...

"A pressure cooker makes this much faster."

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Ingredients: beef consomme, top sirloin steaks...

"This is a tried and true traditional recipe for New Year's Day in the South."

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Ingredients: cooked ham, dry crushed red pepper...

"Italian chicken with full lemon flavor. It is important to use fresh lemons. When I follow Toula Patsalis in "The Pressure Cooker Cookbook", I never go wrong! Serve with sauteed green beans topped with toasted slivered almonds."

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Ingredients: dried basil, potato starch...

"I adapted this recipe from "The Pressure Cooker Gourmet", by Victoria Wise. You can substitute any kind of chicken pieces, bone-in or boneless. You would just need to adjust cooking time based on your choice. I actually leave the skin on, I'm weird and kind of like the skin, even when its "soggy"!"

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Ingredients: hot paprika, onions...

"Modified from "Pressure Perfect" by Lorna Sass. I got a pressure cooker last Christmas and until yesterday, it was still sitting in the box. I vowed to use it before this Christmas, and this was the first thing I made in it. I made a few substitutions based on what I had on hand, and I was so happy with the results. Serve with rice,..."

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Ingredients: pitted black olives, salt & freshly ground black pepper...

"The flavor of this pot roast is wonderful. The pressure cooker seems to force the seasoning right into the meat and vegetables. Sunday dinner after church in the south was fried chicken, but in the MidWestern U.S. region, it was potroast. YUM."

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Ingredients: beef base, pepper...

"Recipe posted by request."

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Ingredients: ketchup, onions, paprika...

"Chinese Chop Suey made with pork. I've cooked this for the past 45 years...and it's at it's best the following day. My Mom made it this way...so you can figure the recipe is a good 70 years old. Guess that's considered "antique" :) It freezes well, without losing flavor."

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Ingredients: cornstarch, fresh white mushrooms...

"This is a cross between a soup and a stew, and is the perfect supper for midwinter warm-ups. Serve it with a salad or coleslaw and warm rolls with butter."

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Ingredients: dried basil, fresh ground black pepper...