Roman Artichokes In Pressure Cooker

Cooking artichokes in a pressure cooker is such an easy way to have the most tender and flavorful artichokes in under 5 minutes. Artichokes are pressure steamed with their seasoning, retaining and absorbing all the flavors. My favorite is Roman artichokes cooked with a blend of extra virgin olive oil, garlic, and mint.

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• Cooking artichokes in a pressure cooker
• How to clean an artichoke
• How to cook artichokes alla Romana
• Seasoning and cooking the artichokes
• What to serve with Roman artichoke
• Other artichokes you can use
• More artichokes recipes
• 📋Roman Artichokes Pressure Cooker

You may not know but Rome is famous for its artichokes. They were a prominent vegetable even in the Roman empire cuisine.

The Roman climate is particularly favorable for growing this vegetable, which you will find in abundance at the Roman markets.

In particular, you will find the "mammola" artichoke which is large, round-headed, less spiky, and more tender than a regular one.

You can recognize it from its purple color.

Cooking artichokes in a pressure cooker

Artichokes can be boiled or steamed, personally, I prefer steaming them as boiling can make them very watery.

If they are cooked whole, they do require a long cooking time, at least 30 minutes.

However, in a pressure cooker, it only takes 3 minutes.

In addition, the pressure of the steam, not only retains the flavor of the flesh, it rapidly softens any hard part of the artichoke and infuses the flavor of the herbs in the entire artichoke, even in the stems.

My pressure cooker is WMF Perfect Pressure Cooker and if you want to find out how I use it and why I prefer it you can read my review: Pressure Cooker

How to clean an artichoke

Cleaning an artichoke can be intimidating, but it shouldn't be. It is not difficult, however, it is best to use gloves as artichokes stain:

1. First, remove the external hard leaves, until the yellow flesh appears.
2. Then remove all the dark green tops of the leaves which have no meat and end with spikes.
3. Last you peel off the green layer of the steam.
4. Immediately immerse the artichokes in water and lemon otherwise they will turn black

How to cook artichokes alla Romana

Artichokes alla Romana, meaning the roman way, is the perfect cooking method for those large tender purple 'mammola' artichokes.

On these artichokes, you only need to remove the outer leaves, the tops, and the bear in the center. The rest of the artichokes are tender and edible.

These artichokes are seasoned with a mix of extra virgin olive oil, garlic, and mint. You make a paste with those herbs and you push it right in the center of the artichokes.

They are then cooked upside down in a pot at low heat with olive oil and water until the steam cooks the artichokes all the way into the center.

Seasoning and cooking the artichokes

1. In a blender prepare the filling by mixing garlic, mint, 2 tablespoon of olive oil and salt
2. Stuff the artichokes pushing the filling all the way between the leaves
3. Pour 2 tablespoon of olive oil into the pressure cooker
4. Arrange the artichokes upside down in the pressure cooker
5. Add 1 cup of water and more salt.

N.B: If you are cooking them in a normal pan, cover with water up to the base of the stem

6. Cook for 3 minutes in the pressure cooker.

N.B.: In a normal pan cook for 30 minutes

7. Arrange the artichokes on a plate, collect the juices in a small bowl and serve

What to serve with Roman artichoke

I always had Roman artichokes as a starter. It is so full of flavor that it can easily stand a serving by itself.

However, it is also a great side dish for a barbecue, especially for lamb. It can combine well with any strong flavor main like beef, pork, or chicken.

Personally I wouldn't serve it with fish as it would overtake the taste.

Other artichokes you can use

The artichokes I used in the video below are not the typical Roman artichokes but I was tempted by an offer and couldn't resist.

An Italian truck was parked on the side of the road with a large sign:

"10 kilos of artichokes for € 5"

I had to buy them!

It doesn't matter if they are not the large and meaty artichokes, as long as they are tender inside. These spiky artichokes did their job.

More artichokes recipes

If you like artichokes, you can find more delicious recipes on the blog:

• Raw artichokes salad
• Minestra with broad beans, artichokes and peas
• Pizza with artichokes and scamorza
• Hot artichoke dip with parmesan and garlic

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