Versatile steam pressure pot
When my old steam pressure pot did not work properly after many years, I immediately bought a new one. I use it for so many purposes, not just for big pieces of meat or to make chicken soup so soft in 25 minutes that the meat falls off the bones.
A few applications:
We like to eat artichokes. They need at least 1 hour until you can pluck the leaflets well.
10 minutes in the steam pressure pot, which I simply call steam.
Soups for many people succeed in minutes, for example goulash soup. Layer all the ingredients, together with the spices, little water or broth - you can add that afterwards, and in a quarter of an hour you have a delicious goulash soup.
If you should save fat for medical reasons, the pot is ideal. Instead of sautéing the meat and vegetables in oil or butter, the ingredients come for a few minutes in the Dampfi, afterwards I add a small sting of butter.
Boiled potatoes are cooked in 5 minutes while the schnitzel sizzles in the pan.
Lentils only need 9 minutes in the steam. But you should fill the pot but only half. And pay attention to sufficient fluid.
Jam is made in two steps. First boil the fruit in a few minutes in the steam, then add the sugar with the pot open and stir for about 20 minutes until the jam gels.
As an example of the preparation here is a recipe for a delicious jam from Cape gooseberries (Physalis) with pineapple.
That is how it goes:
- 1 pound of cape gooseberries - weighed without the cuticles
- Juice of a big lemon
- 200 grams of fresh pineapple, in pieces
- 2 tablespoons of orange juice
- Boil for 3 minutes in the steam, cool the pot under cold water. to open
- Add 500 g of sugar and stir until dissolved.
Simmer for about 15 minutes until the jam gels. You can see that when a drop gets stuck on a wooden spoon, or a drop on a cold plate immediately solidifies.
Then hot in hot rinsed screw jars fill. A spoonful of rum on the jam prolongs shelf life - or maybe not ... it's so delicious that you could eat it with a spoon.
Do not be afraid of the steam pressure pot - the stories that hang the potato soup under the ceiling, or scald people, is that the instructions were not or not thoroughly read.
Before opening, first let the steam out - then nothing will happen.
