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The pressure cooked Pork and Aubergine served on a white plate with a portion of rice shaped as a square

Instant Pot Pork and Aubergine

Maria Bravo
Delicious Instant Pot Pork and Aubergine, super easy and quick pressure cooked dish
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Course Main Course
Cuisine Fusion
Servings 4 people, depending on appetite

Equipment

  • 1 electric pressure cooker Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi, Cosori etc

Ingredients
  

  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 aubergine use 2 aubergines if you want to bulk it up, diced in about 2 cm cubes
  • 3 cloves of garlic chopped
  • 500 g pork mince
  • 50 ml oyster sauce
  • 100 ml water (cold) I rinsed the bottle with the water as it was the end of my oyster sauce, definitely do that if it’s the end of your bottle too!
  • 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce probably a tad extra, there is room to reduce it to 1 tablespoon

Instructions
 

  • Press Sauté, set to Less, add about a teaspoon of olive oil to the inner pot and add the aubergine as you dice it. Stirring regularly. I keep the Instant Pot glass lid on while I do this.
  • Chop the garlic and stir it into the aubergine.
  • Add the pork mince and stir well.
  • Stir in the oyster sauce, water and soy sauce. Cancel Sauté.
  • Make sure the sealing ring is in place and pressed down nicely. Lock the lid in. Make sure the steam release handle is pointing to Sealing unless you have a self-sealing lid (and, if you do, how cool is it??).
  • Press Pressure Cook, use the - and + buttons to set 15 minutes (use the dial if you have an Instant Pot with a dial of course!). Natural pressure release at the end and it will do great on Keep Warm for hours.
  • When you open the lid, sauté with lid off before serving to reduce the liquid while you get everything ready

Notes

Delicious served with rice.
*Terminology
Quick pressure release (QPR, also called quick release or QR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
Natural pressure release (NPR, also called natural release or NR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid. 
Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example a recipe may have a 4 minute NPR followed by a QPR. You wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting. 
Keyword all-in-one, Aubergine, Instant Pot, Pork mince
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