A Perfect Pantry
Pressure Cooking Cookbook, Plus Your Chance to Win!
The Australian Women’s Weekly, Pressure Cooking, RRP $39.95, available where all good books are sold and online at www.awwcookbooks.com.au Photographer: Ian Wallace
** This Competition has now finished, thank you to all who participated! **
The two lucky winners for this competition were: Jackie and Joanne Kennedy
The Kambrook team were very excited to receive The Australian Women’s Weekly Pressure Cooking cookbook to make a couple of their recipes in our Pressure Cooker. We decided to try:
- Butter Chicken
- Chocolate Self-Saucing Pudding
Yum, right!
I have only ever made my Mum’s steamed chocolate pudding, which is baked in the oven in a water bath. The water bath creates steam inside the oven, whereas the pressure cooker does this automatically. For the pressure cooker, we made our puddings in mugs so that we could hang onto the handles as we scooped into the delicious gooey mess. I only wish we had of had some vanilla ice cream on hand!
The butter chicken was so simple to make and filled the kitchen with the most aromatic smells. We cooked rice in another pressure cooker for serving up, and topped the meal with fresh coriander. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get our hands on any chicken marylands so we used thighs with the bone in which worked just as well. There was a bit of left over sauce that we were considering just pouring over the rice as a meal because it was that good.
Here are the Recipes
BUTTER CHICKEN
Prep + Cook time 40 minutes
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
- 4 chicken marylands (1.4kg)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ cup (140g) yogurt
- 5cm (2 inch) piece fresh ginger (25g), grated
- 2 teaspoons garam masala
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 40g (1½ ounces) butter
- 1 medium brown onion (150g), chopped finely
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 teaspoon each ground coriander, cumin, cinnamon and hot paprika
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 410g (13 ounces) canned tomato puree
- ½ cup (125ml) chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¹⁄³ cup (80ml) pouring cream
- ½ cup loosely packed fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves
DIRECTIONS
- Combine chicken, juice, yogurt, ginger and garam masala in large bowl. Heat half the oil and half the butter in 6-litre (24-cup) pressure cooker; cook chicken, in batches, until browned. Remove from cooker. (NB: Use the ‘SAUTÉ’ function on the Kambrook pressure cooker to cook the chicken in batches)
- Heat remaining oil and butter in cooker; cook onion and garlic, stirring, until onion softens. Add spices; cook, stirring, until fragrant. Return chicken to cooker with paste, puree, stock and honey; secure lid. Bring cooker to high pressure. Reduce heat to stabilise pressure; cook 20 minutes.
- Depressurise the pressure cooker; remove lid. Stir in cream; season to taste. Serve chicken sprinkled with coriander.
NUTRITIONAL COUNT PER SERVING : 58.1g total fat (23.5g saturated fat); 3403kJ (814 cal); 23.5g carbohydrate; 48.7g protein; 4g fibre
TIPS. If you have an electric pressure cooker you won’t need to reduce the heat to stabilise pressure, your cooker will automatically stabilise itself. Always check with the manufacturer’s instructions before using. Recipe not suitable to freeze.
SERVING SUGGESTION: Serve with steamed basmati rice.
CHOCOLATE SELF-SAUCING PUDDING
Prep + Cook time 30 minutes
Serves 4
INGRIDIENTS
- 45g (1½ ounces) butter
- ¹⁄³ cup (80ml) milk
- ½ cup (110g) caster (superfine) sugar
- ²⁄³ cup (100g) self-raising flour
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- ¹⁄³ cup (75g) firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, extra
- 1 cup (250ml) boiling water
DIRECTIONS
- Grease four 1-cup (300ml) ovenproof dishes. (NB: Kambrook team used 250ml coffee mugs)
- Melt butter with milk in medium saucepan. Remove from heat; stir in caster sugar then sifted flour and cocoa. Divide mixture between dishes.
- Sift brown sugar and extra cocoa into small bowl; spoon over pudding mixture in dishes. Carefully pour the boiling water over mixture. Cover dishes tightly with foil. Place 1½ cups (375ml) water in 8-litre (32-cup) pressure cooker. Place dishes in cooker; secure lid. Bring cooker to high pressure. Reduce heat to stabilise pressure; cook 12 minutes. (NB: 4 x 250ml mugs fitted perfectly into our 6L pressure cooker, and we reduced 375ml water in pressure cooker bowl to 250ml)
- Depressurise the pressure cooker; remove lid. Remove dishes from cooker. Stand puddings 5 minutes before serving.
NUTRITIONAL COUNT PER SERVING: 10.8g total fat (6.9g saturated fat); 1584kJ (379 cal); 65.2g carbohydrate; 4g protein; 1.1g fibre
TIPS: If you have an electric pressure cooker you won’t need to reduce the heat to stabilise pressure, your cooker will automatically stabilise itself. Always check with the manufacturer’s instructions before using. Recipe not suitable to freeze.
SERVING SUGGESTION: Serve puddings with ice-cream or drizzled with a little thickened (heavy) cream.
Now for the WINNING part
The lovely people at The Australian Women’s Weekly are giving two (2) lucky readers the chance to win one of their Pressure Cooking cookbooks. All you have to do is answer this simple question in the comments section of this blog post: What would you cook in the pressure cooker?
Two (2) lucky winners will be selected and each will win their very own copy of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Pressure Cooking, RRP $39.95, available where all good books are sold and online at www.awwcookbooks.com.au
Photographer: Ian Wallace
Remember, we will be showcasing, trialling and giving away a new cookbook each month, so keep checking back for future giveaways.
Please note:
- Only one entry per person
- Open to Australian residents only
- Two (2)winners will be selected by Kambrook
- The winners will be contacted by email and Kambrook reserves the right to announce the winners on our online site https://aperfectpantry.com.au
- This competition will run from 9am 15th April 2013 to 12pm 21st April 2013
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IF YOUR ENTRY EXCEEDS 25 WORDS YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM WINNING!
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15 April 2013
Hubby loves stroganoff so would have to be that, but I'm so giving that choc pud a go!
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15 April 2013
I'd cook chille con carne then dribble it over corn chips for nachos!
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15 April 2013
My Hubby grew some wonderful butternut pumpkins, and I have just purchased an electric pressure cooker from Krambrook, so pumpkin soup is what I will cook.
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15 April 2013
Soup of all types with winter fast approaching!!!
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15 April 2013
I would cook Indonesian Braised Beef with Potatoes. It’s childhoold favourite dish of mine that I can’t get anywhere here.
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15 April 2013
The ultimate winter soul food - lamb shanks with port wine and garlic mash. Warm, hearty, and smells so good!
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16 April 2013
Lamb Biryani,an explosion of culinary flavours and colours from the pressure cooker on your plate!
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16 April 2013
I would cook any soups or casseroles in mine as well as jams and chutneys cook well in them,my mum used to make marmalade in her old one that was used on the stove
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16 April 2013
Coming into Winter, we love making Pumpkin soup in the slow cooker, a delicious treat.
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16 April 2013
Our favourite delicious curry, with enough bite to warm us from the inside out!
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16 April 2013
Caramelised Pork Belly!
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16 April 2013
Lamb Shanks With Garlic and rED Wine
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16 April 2013
I cook lamb shanks in a garlic, rosemary and red wine sauce. Soo good with mashed potato and green veges in Winter.
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16 April 2013
A Lamb Stew like Mum used to make in her pressure cooker many years ago
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16 April 2013
With winter fast approaching, I would have to say that there is nothing better than the good old lamb stew
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16 April 2013
Harira for starters, Chilli Con Carne for main and good old Sticky Date Pudding for sweets.
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16 April 2013
I would cook chicken and sweet corn soup in the pressure cooker. It's a family favorite in this houshold along with any Indian curry. Mmm
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16 April 2013
Potato and leek soup-yum!!!
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16 April 2013
I would luv to win this book which I don't have & I enjoy cooking new things I have a pressure cooker & never used it, I have the old style not the one's they have now....so if I win I would use it to try new recipe's out!!
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I would love to cook a sticky date pudding, rich and decadent, sweet and delicious.