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Photo of a whole pressure cooked pumpkin sitting on a white plate in front of a Ninja Foodi 15 in 1 electric pressure cooker

How to Pressure Cook a Whole Pumpkin

Maria Bravo
How to Pressure Cook a Whole Pumpkin to make it easier to slice and dice
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Pressure cooker hack
Cuisine American, British

Equipment

  • 1 Pressure Cooker (I use the Ninja Foodi Max in this video, the bigger pressure cookers are better for this )
  • 1 trivet / steam rack or a steamer basket or use foil to prop the pumpkin up so that the steam can get under it

Ingredients
  

For pressure cooking

  • 500 ml water cold (this is approximately 2 American cups of water), we use millilitres in the UK (hope that helps)
  • 1 pumpkin cooking type

Instructions
 

  • 500 ml cold water in inner pot
    500 ml water
  • Trivet / steam rack in place in the inner pot
  • Pumpkin on the trivet / steam rack, remove the stem like I did if it sits too high (make sure you watch the video)
    1 pumpkin
  • Check the sealing ring is properly in place, steam release set to Sealing
  • Pressure cook for 10 minutes
  • Quick pressure release, this means venting the steam trapped inside manually

Video

Notes

Quick pressure release means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting or pressing down a button, this will depend on your type of cooker, some even do quick pressure release automatically by default at the end (as is the case of the Tefal Cook4Me)
Keyword hack, Pressure cooker, pumpkin
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