The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book

Consummate home cook and magazine editor Suzanne Gibbs shows us how to use a pressure cooker to create slow-cooked flavour in a fast-paced world.

Pressure cookers allow us to cook quickly, cheaply and efficiently. The food is cooked in liquid at high temperatures, which shortens cooking time by up to 70 per cent. Because the method seals in flavour and nutrition, cheaper ingredients can be-used to great effect.

Here Suzanne selects more than 80 of her favourite pressure-cooker recipes, and describes the process from beginning to end, Learn how to cook an ossobucco in 25 minutes, a chicken tagine in 15 minutes and a delicious bread and butter pudding in 20 minutes.

Packed with information on practicalities such as choosing, using and cleaning your cooker and fully, illustrated with beautiful photography, The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book is a must-have guide for anyone balancing the constraints of time and money with a desire to create delicious healthy meals for themselves their friends and their families.

Food writer Suzanne Gibbs' reputation has evolved over 30 years since graduating from the Cordon Bleu School of Cookery, London. Books she has authored or co-authored have sold in excess of 500,000 copies. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Margaret Fulton, she is keen to ensure family meals are healthy and diverse. She is currently Food Director of the newly launched BBC Good Food Australia magazine. A note from the editor: What a great way to cook - you'll be amazed at how quickly a pressure cooker can produce melt-in-the-mouth, delicious meals. This broad selection of recipes will see you through quick weeknight meals, dinner parties and hearty weekend feasts.