Recipes
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
HOW TO USE THE RECIPES
•All the recipes in this book are calculated on the basis of 4 servings - unless otherwise stated.
•Recommendations relating to suitable utensils and the total cooking times are given at the beginning of every recipe.
•As a rule the quantities shown are assumed to be wholly consumable, unless specifically indicated otherwise.
•When eggs are given in the recipes they are assumed to have weight of approx. 55 g (medium).
Soups & starters
Spain
Cream of avocado soup
Total cooking time: approx.
Utensils: Bowl with lid (2 Iitre capacity) Ingredients
3avocados (600 g of flesh) a little lemon juice
700 ml | meat stock |
70 ml | cream |
| salt & pepper |
1.Peel the soft, ripe avocados, remove stone, cut into small pieces and puree with a mixer or a mixing attachment on a hand mixer. Reserve two thin slivers per portion for decoration and sprinkle with lemon juice.
2.Put the meat stock, avocados and the cream in a dish, season with salt and pepper and cook with lid on. Stir
once during cooking.
10-12 min. 
800 W
3.Mix soup until creamy and decorate with the remaining avocado slivers. Allow to stand for 5 minutes after cooking.
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