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UK
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.
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) |
Mushrooms with rosemary
Total cooking time: approx.
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) |
1onion (50 g), finely chopped
50g bacon, finely diced
| black pepper, ground |
| fresh rosemary, bruised |
125 ml | dry white wine |
125 ml | cream |
2 tbsp | flour (20 g) |
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
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. 
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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. 
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.
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3.Heat 100 ml of the wine and cream in the other dish
with its lid on.
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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. 
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5.Fill the mushrooms with the bacon mixture, place in
the sauce and cook on the high rack.
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Allow the mushrooms to stand for approximately 2 minutes once cooked.
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