If it’s possible to love an appliance, then I’m smitten with my pressure cooker. Forgot to put something in the slow cooker in the morning, and it’s almost time for dinner? No problem with a pressure cooker!
I adapted this recipe from The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series).
Ingredients:
- 3 lb pot roast
- 2 onions, chopped
- 2 rutabagas, quartered
- 2 turnips, quartered
- 2 potatoes, quartered
- dried mushrooms (optional)
- 4 C beef broth (I like to get the organic kind from Costco)
- herbs such as pepper, mustard powder, oregano
Directions:
- Heat oil in the pressure cooker; brown roast.
- Add onion and saute’ for a bit while you cut the root vegetables.
- Add root vegetables, broth, and herbs to the pot. Cook on low pressure for 45 minutes or so.
Serve!
The Verdict: It was a grassfed roast, and it admittedly wasn’t as tender as if I had slow cooked it. But it still tasted good, and I loved the variety of root vegetables with the mushrooms.
Note: See the comment section below for a link to an excellent post about pressure cooking by Adrienne.
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I am so happy to see a post about pressure cooking. I just love my pressure cooker. Your Pot Roast recipe looks very good. Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome!
Love my pressure cooker! I am generally so hesitant to post recipes for it online, though, because so few people have them. We need to change that.
I agree! Although, most can be adapted for slow cookers.
Hi Wendy!
I just dropped by to see what you are doing on your site and I must say that I was thrilled! I was at the last W Mi Bloggers mtg, but didn’t meet you…maybe tomorrow night? We’ve all been under the weather, but I am hopeful.
Anyhow, I have been using my pressure cookers for YEARS and though I have just a measly little start up blog, I did post about my cookers. I’m sure you are busy, but here is the link if you are interested: http://wholenewmom.com/your-home/healthy-kitchen/reducing-pressure-in-the-kitchen-with-a-pressure-cooker/
Anyhow, nice looking pot roast. You have inspired me to do meat again in my cooker!
Hope to meet you tomorrow!
thank you so much for sharing that post! I have yet to experiment with much more than meat & roots since I have only had it a couple of months, but you’ve inspired me to branch out. Yeah, I know Sally’s not pro-pressure cooker but I agree with you – one does what one can. Not sure if I’ll make it tomorrow but here’s hoping.
What would be the general way to convert a slow-cooker recipe for a pressure cooker? 🙂 It looks like this recipe was taken from a pressure cooker recipe…?? 🙂
Yes, this is a pressure cooker recipe. To do it in a crock pot you would reduce the amount of liquid and slow cook it all day (8 hrs or so on low). Here’s an article on how to convert a regular recipe to a pressure cooker: http://www.ehow.com/how_5552438_convert-regular-recipes-pressure-cookers.html