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Introduction to recipes
A wide variety of food can be cooked in your
MISS MARY pressure cooker. To give you an idea,
the recipe section features 5 recipes that are cooked
almost everyday in most households. Using these as a
base, you can easily adapt your own favourite recipes
to pressure cooking.
The quantities given in the recipes are
maximum capacities that can be cooked in a 4.5
Litre pressure cooker. For maximum capacity in other
sizes see page No. 10 to 17.
Cups in the recipes refer to cups of 250 ml.
capacity. Teaspoon and tablespoon are level and
are of 5 ml. and 15 ml. capacity respectively.
Plain Rice
Serves 6 Pressure Cooking Time: 2 minutes
5 cups water
4 cups colam rice washed
2 teaspoons salt
1. Pour water into cooker. Bring to boil on high heat.
Add rice and salt. Stir once.
2. Close cooker. Bring to full pressure on high heat.
Reduce heat and cook for 2 minutes.
3. Remove cooker from heat. Allow to cool naturally.
4. Open cooker. Serve hot.
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Aloo Mattar
Serves 6 Pressure Cooking Time: 2 minutes
10 gm ginger
7 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 medium (200 gm) onions grated
3 medium (300 gm) tomatoes chopped
1 tablespoon salt
3
/
4
teaspoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1 tablespoon cumin powder
1
1
/
4
teaspoons red chilli powder
3 large (
1
/
2
kg) potatoes peeled and
cut into 2.5 cm pieces
5 cups peas shelled
2
1
/
2
cups water
1 tablespoon coriander leaves chopped
