This is a great introduction to using your pressure cooker. They can ve intimidating, and the tips and tricks in this cookbook make it seem easy peasy! There are so many yummy recipes too, I am going to dust off my pressure cooker and give a few of them a go this weekend!

Thanks NetGalley and Quatro Publishing for access to this yummy arc!

Barbara Shieving knows the pressure cooker, and she shares her knowledge in her latest excellent cookbook, Quick and Easy Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: Delicious and Foolproof Recipes for Beginners. No matter which brand of pressure cooker you own, this cookbook will help you put luscious meals on the table, whether you are a beginning cook or seasoned. It contains recipes that most people will want to cook. Most are fairly easy with minimal ingredients, so busy cooks can get out their pressure cooker and have a mouthwatering meal in 30 minutes or less.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner and are easy to follow. Most contain easy-to-find ingredients, and I found I had many of them on my pantry shelves, fridge, and freezer without having to go to the store before fixing dinner in my pressure cooker.
While there are beautiful photographs of many of the recipes, the cookbook could use more, especially when this cookbook is made especially for beginners. However, this is not a game changer; this is an excellent cookbook just the way it is. It contains great breakfast dishes, appetizers, soups, entrees, and a few desserts that work (I tried a couple and they were wonderful).
All told, this is another great cookbook and anyone interested in cooking in an electric pressure cooker should add it to their cookbook shelf. It will be used often and the recipes not only work well, but are worth serving.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I absolutely loved being able to flip through these recipes and get ideas for my menus and will be definitely cooking a couple of these recipes this week and is finally giving me the confidence to pull out the pressure cooker I just had to have but rarely use!

I generally only use the most basic of functions on my Instant Pot, so it was fun to see new techniques and functions. It seems as if most reviewers weren’t a fan of the Shortcut Dinners section of the book. I found the author’s introduction to this section interesting, mentioning that kind of recipe is the hardest to find for the pressure cooker category. I mostly cook from scratch, but am looking for more shortcuts to keep on hand if I run out of time. That section and the 30-Minute meals chapter gave me some good ideas.

If you’re a parent who wants to cook from scratch but needs some easy meals you don’t have to babysit- this book is for you! This book taught me some things about my instant pot that I didn’t know, but it also gave some fresh and easy recipes for good food that I don’t have to spend a huge amount of time on. I am especially excited to try the dessert recipes to bring to parties or friends- delicious recipes that don’t take a lot of time!

Quick and Easy Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook has recipes that are quick and easy due in part to the use of items like frozen mearballs and potstickers (for example). My favorite recipe is the Lighter Zuppa Toscana, which you will be able to find only from the index or thumbing your way through “Soups” until you get to the correct page. I’m so on the fence about this book, partially as it is not so quick and easy to find recipes in the book, but also due to the number of recipes that need 3-5 other plates, pots, bowls, etc., in order to create the recipe. I personally wanted more, but am hopeful that it is just what you will fond useful.

I would like to thank Quarto Group Publishing and NetGalley for an advance copy to ewview.

Quick and Easy Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook is a new tutorial guide and cookbook for the electric pressure cooker with recipes developed and curated by Barbara Schieving. Due out 24th Jan 2023 from Quarto on their New Shoe Press imprint, it's 144 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. 

The electric pressure cooker is a kitchen machine which has honestly revolutionized food prep in most kitchens in the last 20 years. They're versatile, relatively inexpensive (even the ones with advanced features), and can cut cooking time significantly. The author is an undisputed expert in the field and has several cookbooks utilizing non-brand-specific pressure cookers. This one purports to be quick and easy. 

The book has a sensible and accessible layout: the introduction gives an overview over the features available and how the cooker does what it does and how to best utilize the machine's capabilities. The following chapters contain the recipes arranged by category: breakfast, sandwich wraps & more, soup, shortcut dinners, 30 minute meals, Sunday suppers, and desserts. Recipes are written with an introduction, ingredients in bullet lists in a sidebar, and are followed by step by step cooking directions. Ingredient measurements are given in imperial (American) units with metric in parentheses. (Yay!!). Most ingredients will be available at any moderately well stocked grocery store in North America. 

Roughly 25-30% of the recipes are accompanied by photographs. The food is well styled and serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate. Nutritional information is not provided. For strictly "from scratch" cooks, the author does make use of a large number of convenience foods and pre-mixes such at corn muffin mix, bottled barbecue sauce, canned tomatoes, premade stock, and frozen vegetables. 

I have generally used my pressure cooker to saute + cook dishes in some combination. The author writes many (most?) recipes with one or more extra steps requiring stove top or other pre-prep steps. For readers cooking for specialized diets, these recipes will -definitely- require some major reworks to be AIP, FODMAP, vegetarian, or other diet-compliant. 

Four stars, with the above codicils. There are a number of simple and appealing recipes here which are delicious and don't take much time, such as tamale pie (much like the "miracle" bisquick cheeseburger pie) and the 3 ingredient pulled pork. Both were easy and quick to make. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

After reading this book I can safely say that I have been considerably under utilising my electric pressure cooker!
This book has lots of really useful information, including hints and tips for use and even a trouble shooting section should you find that your cooking isn’t going according to plan.
It’s filled with so many recipes that I am planning on trying, with easy to follow instructions they’re suitable even for a first time electric pressure cooker user.
I have no hesitation in recommending this book.
My thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for allowing me to read this book in return for an honest review.

It’s really annoying when publishers don’t even enter their own books on goodreads. I had to enter this twice because the publisher blurb had a link in it and that’s against rules here and the second time it removed my cover image. There’s only so much of their job I’m doing for them so I guess we have no cover.

This is a fine pressure cooking book. I’ve honestly read a hundred and I don’t know how much new it offers. Photos accompany about 1/3 of the recipes. As is generally the case with pressure cooking cookbooks, a lot of the recipes seem better suited cooked elsewhere. They use a lot of purchased ingredients like wontons, spaghetti sauce, meatballs and BBQ sauce. The recipes are Standard American Diet kind of recipes. No nutritional information is provided. I don’t know that I’d call the recipes that quick or easy. There are generally multiple steps using multiple settings.

Since I cook mostly from scratch and cook for family members who are gluten free, keto and vegetarian, there was virtually nothing for me in this cookbook. I realize that I’m an anomaly and this did not influence my rating (I can’t cook from Mary Berry’s new cookbook either but still gave it 5 stars). Three stars for good, but lacking in some areas. I’m sure it will be a great book for some.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book via NetGalley.

Does what it says on the cover, this is a great little book full of really useful and easy electric pressure cooker recipes , I bought an instant pot this year and I love it but I do the same stews and casseroles, so this book was such a help, can’t wait to try even more. Easy to follow, uses plain English, what’s notto love, if you are like me and need to expand your repertoire, this is for you

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy in return for an honest opinion

4.5 stars ! just because I am chaotic in a kitchen and need to know how long it is going to take me to achieve something for dinner ! Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with an approximate time for preparation and cooking. It is useful for me as I need to know how long I need to prepare in advance to eat on time, and having the time in a quick glance help, instead of reading the whole recipe.. So for me that is the only thing really missing.
Otherwise the recipe are clear and have both metric and non metric quantities and temperature, and that believe me is great ! I hate having to stop mid recipe, and trying to understand in which hell of uk or us cups we are talking about, when I have been raised using metric system.
I also love the choice and the variety of the recipe. I am new to pressure cooker and felt a bit overwhelmed to not have a clue what I could actually achieve with it, and there is a lot of things to do !
So thank you for this book NetGalley :D

I have an electric pressure cooker (not one of the fancy brand names everyone has) and have not been able to find recipes that are suitable. This book has not disappointed - I made the potatoes for our Christmas dinner and was thrilled to only spend 5 minutes on mashed potatoes! I would not have thought to use my poor neglected appliance in that way.
I have bookmarked so many more recipes to try - I don't think I will be putting my pressure cooker away anytime soon.

I've been looking for inspiration for food in my new Ninja Foodi.

There is a good description of pressure cooking at the beginning, All of the recipes are in USA measurements.

This cookbook has a good selection of recipes, from simple to fancy. There are a few sandwich recipes, which I would not generally use. The pulled pork sounds good though and the pork chops in mushroom gravy is on my menu for this week.

The author starts with a sound introduction to cooking under pressure using modern electric cookers although most also relates to the old fashioned stove-top versions. She uses somewhat more sophisticated cookers (Instant Pot, for example) than the traditional ones as they have browning/saute and simmer/saute buttons but it is not beyond the wit of any cook to turn the electric/gas ring up/down to achieve these in a traditional pressure cooker. In fact. the book title becomes slightly misleading in that most recipes use these other features in part - it's a 'one pot cooker which includes pressure when needed' book really. She then moves to the recipes - for breakfast, sandwiches/tacos, soups, dinners and desserts. These are typically straightforward with easily accessible ingredients. Being American these are in cups but with metric in brackets, a plus for me. I am very happy with the recipes for soups and dinners as well as some desserts being done in a pressure cooker but I cannot understand why on earth anyone would consider cooking porridge in one. Ten minutes to bring to pressure then 1 minute to cook and another 10 minutes to release pressure. Put in a pan, simmer 15 minutes at most and done. Latter probably takes a little more electric, 11 versus 15 minutes, but a lot less faff. There are quite a few other recipes where I'd make the same comment - they could also be done in a microwave more efficiently! I would take exception to spaghetti cooked in a pressure cooker - add to top of sauteed meat, cover in water, bring to high pressure and cook 4 minutes. Good luck, I'd be concerned we ended with mush not al dente. Still, casseroles/stews, soup and 'steamed puddings' are all good cooked in a pressure cooker. There is rather too much use of ready made sauces - tomato, tikki masala, for me but that's personal preference and the author does warn about them sticking to the bottom so add at the end of cooking. Overall, good introduction to the use of modern electric pressure cookers and their apparently new versatility which should get some cooks beyond the fear of pressure. Such 'one-pot including pressure' cookers could well, probably have, become again a useful item in the modern kitchen. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy.

This is a solid pressure cooker cookbook with lots of basic and easy recipes. Lots of beef and chicken, and not many vegetarian options. Breakfasts, dinners, quick dinners, fancier meals, and desserts. Good if you're looking for a basic selection of recipes for everyday meals. I wish there were more photos—maybe a third of the recipes had images.

From Desserts to sandwiches, Quick and Easy Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook has many recipes for an electric pressure cooker for any consumer unsure what to make with their appliance. As someone stuck on how to use their cooker for more than basic recipes, I found this book very helpful with an informative introduction and easy recipes with tips to vary or simplify recipes even further.

Downloaded as hoped it would be useful with my new Ninja 15 in 1. Sadly the book seems to be American and some of the methods it uses I do not have on my cooker. I have saved just 2 recipes from the book - Cashew chicken and Kung Po chicken which I will perhaps try.