Pressure Cooker at Food Glossary

What is it? A special cooking pot with a locking, airtight lid and a valve system to regulate internal pressure. Jamaican pressure cookers operate on a principle whereby the steam that builds up inside the pressurized pot cooks Jamaican food at a very high temperature. This reduces the cooking time by as much as two-thirds without destroying the Jamaican foods nutritional value. Jamaican pressure cookers are useful for foods that would normally be cooked with moist heat such as Jamaican soup recipes, stews, steamed puddings, tough cuts of Jamaican meat.

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