New Year Dinner

I purchased a pressure cooker to go with my new stove. It is one of the most wonderful contraptions. You can make food that tastes like it took all day to cook, without taking all day to cook.

Menu : Oxtails, Whipped Cauliflower and Green Beans with Almonds. 

Oxtail Recipe

4 1/2 pounds of Oxtails
2 Tbsp oil (I used virgin coconut)
1 large onion, sliced
3-4 cloves of garlic, peeled
1 bay leaf
1 tsp herbs provincial
1 tsp flour (I used organic, sprouted spelt)
1 bottle of beer (I used a bottle of Guiness Stout)
1 cup of water

Brown the Oxtails in small batches, remove from the pressure cooker pot and set aside.

Brown the onions in the pot, add more oil if necessary.

Add the remaining ingredients, scrapping the browned bits off the bottom of the pot.

Add the meat, put on the pressure cooker lid and build the steam. Cook for 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the pressure drop on its on. Add salt and pepper to taste.

While the meat is cooking, prepare the cauliflower. Place a whole head cauliflower that has been cut into florets into a dish and add 1/2 cup of water (you can use frozen and skip adding the water). Place in the microwave and cook on high for 10-12 minutes.

Add cooked cauliflower, 3 Tbsp of butter, salt and pepper to a food processor and blend until smooth.

While the cauliflower is in the microwave, cook the green beans on the stove. I put 3 cups of frozen, thin green beans, added a little water to the pot, 2 Tbsp of butter, sea salt and a couple of Tbsp of crushed almonds (place whole almonds into a zip lock bag and smash with a mallet).

Viola! A meal in 30 minutes instead of 3-4 hours. I love my new pressure cooker.

The recipe for the oxtails came from '80 recipes for your....Pressure Cooker' by Richard Ehrlich. I modified it just a little bit.