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    Home » Instant Pot

    How To Quickly Soak Dried Fruit in the Pressure Cooker

    Published: Dec 5, 2022 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    Forgot to soak your dried fruit overnight? Want fruit cake and want it now? Ready to make your Christmas pudding but no soaked fruit to be had? You need to know How To Quickly Soak Dried Fruit in the Pressure Cooker.

    Bag of dried fruit and bottle of dark rum (both from Aldi) in front of an Instant Pot Duo with Christmas tree and red baubles in the background

    Great for your Christmas Pudding in fact, above all if you forget to soak the fruit overnight.

    This time comes straight from Catherine Phipps, she posted in my pressure cooking group years ago and it pops up every year.

    Jump to:
    • Why pressure cook dried fruit
    • Instructions
    • When not to use this quick soak method
    • More Christmas Recipes
    • 📖 Recipe
    • Next step: Make Christmas Pudding

    Why pressure cook dried fruit

    It is more effective than soaking large amounts of fruit in the tiny amounts of liquid most recipes call for. 

    If you use this method, your fruit will be immediately plump and glossy.

    Simply put your dried fruit in the pressure cooker and add whatever liquid your recipe calls for. 

    Instructions

    Simply put your dried fruit in the pressure cooker and add whatever liquid your recipe calls for. 

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

    When not to use this quick soak method

    In Catherine's words:

    Unless I am making a Caribbean black cake, which uses dried fruit which has weeks, if not months (once, well over a year) completely covered in strong rum, this is the method I usually use for soaking. 

    Catherine Phipps

    More Christmas Recipes

    • Christmas Pudding
    • Cranberry Sauce
    • Red Cabbage
    • Turkey Crown
    • Gammon
    • Cranberry-Glazed Gammon
    • Brussels Sprouts
    • Parsnips

    All Christmas recipes for your pressure cooker

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    📖 Recipe

    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 minute min
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    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 residue 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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    Next step: Make Christmas Pudding

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    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

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