Creamy Coconut Lime Millet Breakfast Pudding (Pressure Cooker 101)

 It's Monday. Oh how we love Monday. It's like a blessed reminder that we have another week to live. It's a glorious new start. It's...gosh...another week of meals. Now, imagine me whirling around on the hills of Austria like Julie Andrews singing , "The MEALS are Alive! with the sound of Music!"Fa la la la !! " Doesn't that make you feel better (or slightly nauseated) ? Monday's also the day I try to share some great way to use food storage and expand just a little on the whole grain, if I haven't done that every other day of the week. Dear land. I think this breakfast will totally count as that. It's a gluten free, dairy free, cream-a-licious pudding that isn't too sweet. I'm a push over for lime and coconut anyway. Millet is a natural couple for it I might add. I also cook it in a pressure cooker, so it's fast!  I'm doing a little tutorial pressure cooker usage too, so if you're a little new to the pressure cooker, join the fun. It's a handy dandy tool to have in your kitchen.
 My friend Troy Adair down at Preparing Wisely Store let me play with this new little pretty  Presto Electric Pressure Cooker . I love that it doesn't take stove space. I've used it often so I thought I'd show how to cook the millet pudding in a pressure cooker using this model. If you have another brand, you'll have to use your pressure cooker's instructions, but they are all pretty similar.
 This little doo-hik-ee is called a "pressure regulator".  It goes on the top of the vent in the lid.
 Like this.
 On the handle and lid there are arrows that need to line up. Hold the body handle with your left hand and the cover handle with your right hand and twist using a slight downward pressure to get the lid to seal on. Wait. First put the pudding stuff in there.
 2/3 cup millet
 1 can coconut milk and 1 cup of water.
 pinch of salt
 add the  1/2 tsp Wise Woman of The East Spice Blend 
 and the 1/2 tsp vanilla

 Now align the arrows by placing one hand on the cover near the helper hand and applying a slight downward pressure. The pressure cooker is completely closed when the cover handle is directly above the body handle.
 This model shows it is locked.
 You will notice a little rubber knob on the top of the pressure cooker. It is an air vent.
 Turn up the heat to 400 degrees or high.
 The air vent will pop up and then...
 To prevent excessive liquid loss, do not allow pressure regulator to rock vigorously for more than 3-4 minutes. If the regulator is allowed to continuously rock, excess steam will escape. This will cause too much liquid to escape and food to scorch.  Do not leave pressure cooker unattended.   After 12 minutes, turn off heat.
 Wait for pressure cooker to decompress naturally. This may take about 10 minutes.

 Remove pressure regulator only after air vent cover has returned to the flush position.
 The pudding is creamy and ready to be sweetened...


 I use three droppers full of stevia or
1/3 cup Xagave Raw Organic Agave Nectar  
 I like my coconut crispy. It's a nice crunch on top of the creamy pudding.  So I stir in the lime zest and sprinkle the coconut over the pudding.
 We serve it up warm.