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Recipes
All the recipes in this book are calculated on the basis
of 4 servings - unless otherwise stated.
ADAPTING RECIPES FOR THE
MICROWAVE OVEN
If you would like to adapt your favourite recipes for the
microwave, you should take note of the following:
Shorten cooking times by a third to a half. Follow the
example of the recipes in this book.
Foods which have a high moisture content such as
meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit, stews and soups
can be prepared in your microwave without any
difficulty. Foods which have little moisture, such as
platters of food, should have the surface moistened
prior to heating or cooking.
The amount of liquid to be added to raw foods, which
are to be braised, should be reduced to about two thirds
of the quantity in the original recipe. If necessary, add
more liquid during cooking.
The amount of fat to be added can be reduced
considerably. A small amount of butter, margarine or oil
is sufficient to flavour food. For this reason your
microwave is excellent for preparing low-fat foods as
part of a diet.
Onion soup
Total cooking time: approx. 14 - 17 minutes
Utensils: Bowl with lid (2 litre capacity)
4 soup bowls (200 ml)
Ingredients
1 tbsp
butter or margarine
2 onions (100 g), sliced
800 ml meat stock
salt & pepper
2 slices of bread for toasting
4 tbsp grated cheese (40 g)
1. Place the butter cut up into pieces in the bowl. Add the
sliced onion, the meat stock and the seasoning. Cover
and microwave.
9-11 min.
900 W
2. Toast the slices of bread, cut them into cubes and
divide them among the soup bowls. Pour the soup over
the toast cubes and sprinkle on the cheese.
3. Place the bowls on the turntable, use the top grill and
brown the cheese topping.
6-7 min.
Mushrooms with rosemary
Total cooking time: approx. 10-17 minutes
Utensils: Bowl with lid (1 litre capacity)
Shallow round dish with lid
(approx. 22 cm diameter)
Ingredients
8
large mushrooms (approx. 225 g), whole
2 tbsp butter or margarine (20 g)
1 onion (50 g), finely chopped
50 g bacon, finely diced
black pepper, ground
fresh rosemary, bruised
125 ml dry white wine
125 ml cream
2 tbsp flour (20 g)
1. Remove the stalks from the mushrooms and chop the
stalks into small pieces.
2. Spread the butter on the bottom of the dish. Add the
onions, the diced bacon and the mushroom stalks.
Season with pepper and rosemary, cover and cook.
3-5 min.
900 W
Leave to cool.
3. Heat 100 ml of the wine and cream in the other dish
with its lid on.
1-3 min.
900 W
4. Mix the remaining wine with the flour, stir into the hot
liquid and cook with the lid on. Stir once during
cooking.
approx. 1 min.
900 W
5. Fill the mushrooms with the bacon mixture, place in
the sauce and cook on the high rack.
6-8 min.
270 W
Allow the mushrooms to stand for approximately 2
minutes once cooked.
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