Vegetable Beef Soup Pressure Cooker Recipe Bill Knapps

Steps:

• 1. In saucepan, combine tomato juice & broth.
• 2. Add steak & vegetables and heat until meat & vegetables are tender, without boiling hard.

Steps:

• In 5 or 6 quart pressure cooker brown beef on all sides in oil.
• Stir in all ingredients EXCEPT tomatoes.
• Lock lid on pressure cooker and cook on high until the weight begins to "jiggle".
• Lower heat to a slow consistent "jiggle" and cook for 15 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let pressure release conventionally.
• Stir in tomatoes and return to stove and simmer an additional 5-10 minutes.
• I used a 5 qt pressure cooker at 12 pounds of pressure for this recipe.

Steps:

• 1. Chop up beef into small cubes and pressure cook in three-four inches of water about 15 minutes.
• 2. Open pressure cooker when cooled, take a knife and wrap it in a wet paper towel. Take the wet towel/knife and wipe around the inside of the pressure cooker to remove the brown beef residue.
• 3. Open frozen vegetables and dump into the pressure cooker with the diced onions, celery and potatoes. (Some vegetable mixes have onion, celery and potatoes in them, but I like to add more!)
• 4. Pressure cook another 7 minutes. While it is cooking, boil spaghetti. Drain and after you open the pressure cooker, add the spaghetti. Pour in tomato juice. (I've used V-8 juice if I was out of tomato juice and I've used canned diced tomatoes, as well.) Salt & pepper to taste and serve. Best if served with friend cornbread patties or baked cornbread (not the sweet kind!)
• 5. This soup freezes beautifully. I freeze it in quart freezer bags and my husband can pull one out on any given day and have instant lunch!

Steps:

• INGREDIENT NOTE; You also can use small pasta that's designed for soup, such as ditalini, orzo or small shells.
• Heat empty cooker on high.
• When quite hot, add oil and heat until smoking.
• Add the beef and brown on all sides.
• Add the onions and carrots.
• Saute until somewhat softened.
• Add the tomatoes with their juice, beef stock and chicken stock.
• Mix well.
• Add the optional worcestershire sauce.
• Top cooker up with water or more stock to the "Max PC" line.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Put on lid.
• Plug in cooker.
• Select "Meat" function.
• Set timer on cooker to 1 hour.
• At end of cooking time, unplug the cooker.
• Follow the instruction manual for cooling and opening the cooker.
• Remove the beef and cut into serving pieces.
• Return the beef pieces to the cooker.
• Plug in cooker.
• Put on glass cover.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add egg noodles.
• Cook, uncovered, until noodles or pasta is tender.
• Unplug cooker.
• Remove glass cover.
• Let cool for about 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Wash and sort the beans and soak overnight in cold water to cover.
• Next morning drain beans.
• Put beans, ham and garlic in stockpot, add 2 to 3 quarts water.
• Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 3 hours or until beans are tender.
• While the beans are cooking, in a separate pan boil the onion, celery and carrots in enough water to cover for 30 minutes.
• Drain and add to the beans and ham and continue cooking for 45 minutes more.
• Put soup contents in blender or food processor to slightly puree the soup(You will need to do this in batches).
• Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
• Note: To use canned beans, allow 3 (15-ounce) cans undrained Northern beans and omit 1 quart water. Continue recipe as directed.

Steps:

• Saute the garlic, onions and celery gently in the olive oil in the bottom of the pressure cooker.
• Add all the rest of the ingredients and fill with water until it it 3/4 full. It's important not to fill your pressure cooker more than 3/4 full for safe cooking.
• Seal,Bring up to pressure and cook for 40 minutes.
• Turn off the heat and let the pressure drop naturally. Strain the liquid though a sieve into a large pot, press as much liquid out of the vegetables as you can, discard the vegetables.
• Once cool freeze the liquid for use in vegetarian soups, sauces, lasagne etc.