Philips Avance Collection Cuiseur Vapeur - Manual (Page 16)

- Putting a little oil on the food improves the effect of the Aroma Infuser and also gives the food a
fuller taste.
- For the best result, chop the herbs into fine pieces and fill the aroma infuser evenly.
- For the best taste, we advise you to eat your food immediately after preparing it.
- Do not pour liquids in the aroma infuser.
vegetables and fruits
- Cut off thick stems from cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.
- Steam leafy, green vegetables for the shortest possible time, because they lose colour easily.
- Do not thaw frozen vegetables before you steam them.
meat, poultry, seafood and eggs
- Tender pieces of meat with a little fat are most suitable for steaming.
- Wash meat properly and dab it dry, so that as little juice as possible drips out.
- Always place meat, poultry, fish or eggs below other food types, to prevent dripping of juices.
- Puncture eggs before you put them in the steamer.
- Never steam frozen meat, poultry or seafood. Always let frozen meat, poultry or seafood thaw
completely before you put it in the steamer.
sweet deserts
- Add some cinnamon to desserts to enhance sweetness instead of adding more sugar.
general tips
- HD9190 only: To prepare rice, you have to add water to the rice in the soup bowl. For the
amounts, see the food steaming table above.
- When you have finished cooking rice with the rice preset button, switch off the appliance, stir
the rice and leave it in the bowl with the lid on it for 5 minutes. This gives and even better result.
- HD9190 only: Besides preparing soup, you can also use the soup bowl to prepare vegetables in
sauce, to poach fish in, to cook marinated food and to make pudding, soup and rice.
- Leave some space between the pieces of food and evenly distribute the food over the bottom
of the basket.
- If the steaming basket is very full, stir the food halfway through the steaming process.
- Small amounts of food require a shorter steaming time than large amounts.
- If you only use one steaming basket, the food requires a shorter steaming time than when you
use 2 or 3 steaming baskets.
- If you use more than one steaming basket, let the food cook 5-10 minutes longer.
- Food is ready more quickly in the small steaming basket (1) than in the steaming baskets on top.
- Make sure that the food is well done before you eat. This is particularly important for meat like
pork, minced beef and chicken.
- You can add food or steaming baskets filled with food during the steaming process. If an
ingredient needs a shorter steaming time, add it later.
- Food continues to be steamed for some time when the steamer switches to the keep-warm
mode. If the food is already very well done, remove it from the steamer when the steaming
process ends and the appliance switches to keep-warm mode.
- If the food is not done, set a longer steaming time. You may need to put some more water in
the water tank.
- HD9190 only: The steamer can be used to warm up ready-made soup. Put the soup in the soup
bowl and let it steam at the preset steaming mode for fish. Heating up 250ml soup takes
approximately 10 minutes.
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