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Stuffed Peppers in Pressure Cooker

12 years ago

Hi,

I hope someone can help me... I have an electric pressure cooker and was going to make stuffed peppers. The book it comes with doesn't have a stuffed pepper recipe in it. Everything I've searched under Google doesn't have stuffed peppers in an electric one, only stovetop cookers. Please help!!

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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
12 years ago
Why use a pressure cooker?

I would either steam or bake them.

dcarch
coconut_nj
12 years ago
I've never used an electric pressure cooker. Why would it be any different from electric or stove top? Use the same pressure and time as other recipes you found.
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I'd try and get the recipe too. Someone there made it so find out who it was and talk to them.
teresa_nc7
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I have a stovetop Presto, but there was no recipe for stuffed peppers in my manual. I checked an older pressure cooker cookbook that I have and they had stuffed peppers (with cooked ground beef and cooked rice for the stuffing) that is cooked1 12 minutes for 4 bell peppers at the 15 pounds pressure setting - or high pressure for those cookers having high/low settings, and a natural cool down for 5 minutes, then the cooker is placed in the sink with cool water running over it until all the pressure is gone from the pan (called a quick release).

If your meat and rice are raw when you stuff the peppers, you will need to cook a longer time. Does you cooker manual give a time for cooking rice? With my stove top cooker, white rice cooks in 5-8 minutes. If I remember correctly, the electric cookers take a little bit more time to cook than the stove top versions.

Check your manual for the time to cook ground beef and the time to cook white rice (if you are using white rice?) and then cook for the longer amount of time. The peppers should be done by then, too, but if not, you could always cover, re-set and cook another 2-3 minutes to be sure the peppers are done. That's what I would do.

Teresa

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