Cooking with Pressure Cookers Beef Stew

I have discovered the art of pressure cooking modern style. No longer do you need to worry about the pot blowing up on you. There are several new types of pressure cookers that have auto monitorys and have an automatic pop up valve to release any "over pressure" I've had my pressure cooker for 3 years now and I'm learning more each season about how to use it effectively
I would encourage you go get one especially if you are a working mom or a cooking who enjoys various meat dishes that can be cooked in a fraction of the time and turn out tender and great.
I will be adding some recipes for chuck stew with beer that I tried last week and we all really enjoyed it.
Basically you just cut up a chuck roast into large bite size pieces. Flour them and brown lightly in olive oil in bottom of pressure cooker. When brown, cut potatoes, carrots, onions and mushrooms up and place in pot. Pour 1 12 ounce beer over meat and vetetables along with an exstra
cup to cup and a half water. Place steam lid on , and when steam builds up, start cooking time at that point and cook for 45 minutes. Let steam naturally go back down when heat turned off beore opening pot. The stew should be tender, vegetaebles tender and gravy perfect and thick. The beer just sets the flavor off. Serve with crackers, cornbread or hot homemade bread.