How To Quickly Soak Dried Fruit in the Pressure Cooker

Bottle of dark rum from Aldi and bag of dried fruit mix from Aldi too with an Instant Pot Duo and a Christmas tree with red baubles in the background

How To Quickly Soak Dried Fruit in the Pressure Cooker

Catherine Phipps

Forgot to soak your dried fruit overnight? Want fruit cake and want it now? This trick is the perfect solution

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Prep Time 1

Cook Time 30

Course Dessert

Cuisine British

Equipment

1 Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

500 g dried fruit see note
150 ml of the liquid that your recipe requires

Instructions

Place dried fruit and liquid in the pressure cooker.
Make sure the sealing ring is properly in place. Steam release set to Sealing
Electric pressure cookers: Pressure cook zero minutes, high pressure (if your pressure cooker doesn't go down to zero minutes, pressure cook one minutes. Natural pressure release (i.e. let the float valve pop down on its own, go put your feet up)
Stove-Top Pressure Cookers: Bring up to high pressure and immediately remove from the heat. Allow to drop pressure naturally.
Stir in a couple more tablespoons of alcohol for flavour - it will absorb quickly in the residual heat - and leave to cool.
It's now ready to use in your Christmas Pudding or whatever you decide to make

Notes

A general rule of thumb is 500g dried fruit needs around 150ml liquid to just cover it.

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