Avalon Bay Electric Pressure Cooker Product Guide
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A Guide to Slow Cooking
Unlike other cooking methods, slow cooking allows you to cook delicious meals with simple and easy
preparation. By simply leaving even the toughest cuts of meat to cook with seasoned liquid, the slow
cooker requires minimal involvement from the cock apart from the initial preparation.
The main benefits of slow cooking are that it promotes tenderness, concentrates flavors, is convenient
and can also be economical.
With this great function, poultry pieces will absorb and flavor the liquids surrounding them and the meat
will fall off the bone at a mere touch of a fork. Vegetable flavors intensify and become delicate, even
beans will stay whole while becoming smooth and rich.
Handy Tips
When food is cooked using the Slow Cook function, most of the moisture is retained. As a
precaution, when using traditional recipes it is advised to use less liquid. However, after cooking,
it the liquid quantity is excessive, open the lid and continue cooking further using the
Sauté/Brown Function until the liquid reduces to the desired amount.
Stirring the food as little as possible or even not stirring at all is best when slow cooking.
Browning Before Slow Cooking
Pre-browning meat and poultry prior to slow cooking seals in the moisture, intensifies the flavors and
provides tender results, whilst also producing richer flavors in the other ingredients such as onions,
capsicum etc.
Pot Roasting
Additional liquid is required for pot-roasting. Ensure there is sufficient liquid into the cooking pot to
cover roughly 1/3 of the meat. Remember that the meat will not brown during the pot-roasting process.
For browner results, use the brown function to seal the roast dish, before cooking.
Make sure you adapt your cooking times to suit the slower method of cooking. Use the table below as a
guide. Please note that these times are approximate and can vary depending on ingredients and
quantities.
Traditional recipe times
Slow Cook recipe times
15 – 30 minutes
4 – 9 hours
60 minutes
4 – 6 hours
1 – 3 minutes
6 – 8 hours
