Fall is coming! For me it’s a favorite time of the year. Cooler, milder weather means it’s time soup and comfort food season! This time of the year also means a return to hectic family schedules, making an appliance like an electric pressure cooker a more useful tool than ever. Today I’m sharing my thoughts on an electric pressure cooker by Sharff & Mueller, along with a comfort food recipe for Pressure Cooker Beef Taco Stroganoff that the whole family will love.

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The Sharff & Mueller Duopro Plus is a 6 quart electric pressure cooker. This smart electric pressure cooker was engineered and designed in Canada by professional chefs, and has passed both UL and ULC certifications to help provide you with peace of mind when it comes to safety. The Duopro Plus has an embedded microprocessor that handles pressure, temperature, time and heat.

The Duopro Plus has numerous different cooking modes built in, including:

Soup/Broth
Bean/Chili
Meat/Stew
Poultry
Multigrain
Sterilize
Yogurt
Saute
Slow Cook
Pasta
Rice
manual mode.

Here’s a video containing photos from the unboxing of the Duopro Plus.

The exterior of this pressure cooker has a brushed stainless steel finish, providing a classic look that goes with many types of decor as well as a finish that’s easy to clean. The 6 quart inner pot that you cook in is made of 3-ply stainless steel. The inner pot and the lid are dishwasher safe.

The Duopro Plus is controlled through its touch panel. In addition to cooking anytime you like, you can also take advantage of the 24-hour timer that enables delayed cooking. Once food has finished cooking, the automatic keep warm function will hold your food’s temperature for up to 12 hours until you’re ready to serve. The control panel also includes a pressure release button.

The Sharff & Mueller Duopro Plus has a 2-year warranty. It comes with a number of additional items including glass lid, steaming rack, rice paddle, soup spoon, cup, and free recipe book.

I love cooking with an electric pressure cooker because it’s quick and convenient, and because it doesn’t heat up the kitchen like a stove or oven. I found the Duopro Plus to work exactly as an electric pressure cooker should.I wish they had had one of these back when my boys were small. I spent many hours boiling baby bottles to sterilize them. The Duopro Plus makes easy work of this, you can put the bottles in and set it and walk away to do other things. If you don’t need to sterilize bottles, you can use the feature for canning too!

I LOVE the pressure release button on the control panel of the Duopro Plus. This is the first electric pressure cooker I’ve had that has this feature. It’s not difficult to do a quick pressure release manually but it is so convenient not having to think about what to grab to use to release pressure without burning your hands. Plus, some folks just find a manual pressure release a bit intimidating. Folks that prefer to avoid nonstick surfaces will love the stainless steel inner pot. Folks that struggle to read red numbers and letters clearly will appreciate the bright white lights. Knowing the unit has a 2-year warranty provides peace of mind, considering other units at a similar or higher price have a considerably shorter warranty.

You can learn more about this and other products on the Sharff & Mueller website. You can purchase the Duopro Plus on Amazon.

Here’s one of the recipes I’ve made using the Sharff & Mueller Duopro Plus electric pressure cooker. Be sure to stay tuned for more of them!

This Beef Taco Stroganoff recipe puts a twist on an old classic favorite comfort food dish. This flavorful dish drenches egg noodles and ground beef in a creamy taco flavored sauce. This one-pot meal has a mexican flavor that your whole family will fall in love with and ask for again and again. Making this dish in an electric pressure cooker saves you time and energy, and doesn’t heat up the house like using the stove or oven does. It also helps the flavors of the ingredients really blend together nicely.

Here’s how I make Pressure Cooker Beef Taco Stroganoff.

Pressure Cooker Beef Taco Stroganoff

Equipment Needed

Here’s the equipment, utensils and accessories that you’ll need to make Pressure Cooker Beef Taco Stroganoff.

6 qt electric pressure cooker (I used a 6 qt Sharff & Mueller Duopro Plus)
silicone cooking spoon
measuring cups

Ingredients

Here’s the ingredients you’ll need to make Pressure Cooker Beef Taco Stroganoff.

1 lbs ground beef
1x 12 oz bag egg noodles (I used wide egg noodles)
1x 14 oz bag frozen yellow sweet corn
1x 28oz can petite diced tomatoes, drained
6 cups beef broth
2x 1.25oz packets taco seasoning
8oz shredded cheese (taco, colby jack, cheddar jack or cheddar all work well)
1 cup sour cream

Instructions

Plug the electric pressure cooker into the power outlet.

Select the saute setting on the pressure cooker.

Place the ground beef into the pot and brown the meat. When the meat is between 1/2 and 3/4 of the way browned, add 1 packet of taco seasoning to the pot and stir.

Once the meat has finished browning, press cancel.

Add the noodles and broth to the pot. Make sure you cover as much of the noodles as is possible.

Now add the frozen corn to the pot.

Next add the drained petite diced tomatoes to the pot.

Put the lid onto the pressure cooker and close to seal.

Set the pressure cooker to cook for 5 minutes on manual high pressure.

When the pot has finished cooking, do a quick pressure release.

Stir the content of the pot to be sure all of the ingredients are combined. The mixture will seem very wet, that will thicken.

Add the shredded cheese to the pot and stir to mix it with the other ingredients. The cheese should melt quickly.

Add 1 cup of sour cream and mix thoroughly until everything is completely blended.

Serve immediately. Shredded cheese makes a nice garnish when serving this dish.