Cuisinart CRC-800 manual Food Amount Preparation Water Cooking Time, Shrimp

Guide for Steaming Vegetables, Poultry, Seafood and Hard-Cooked Eggs

Place indicated amount of water into the Cooking Bowl. The amount needed will vary according to the type of food being cooked. Arrange foods in a single layer in the steaming tray. Vegetables should be cut in similar sizes as indicated. Begin timing when unit is turned on. Cooking times are approximate and will yield cooked but crisp/tender vegetables. Add more time for more tender/softer vegetables or cut back on time for crispier vegetables to taste.

Rice cooker must be unplugged immediately after vegetables have finished cooking to prevent overcook- ing. If cooking vegetables over rice, use chart to determine approximately when to add steaming tray to rice cooker. Serve steamed vegetables immediately or plunge into ice water to stop cooking to use in salads and other cold preparations.

Food	Amount	Preparation	Water	Cooking Time
				(approximate)
Asparagus	8 ounces	3-inch cut	2 cups	9-10 minutes
Broccoli	8 ounces	1½-2" flowerets	2 cups	11 minutes
Carrots – baby	8 ounces	Whole	2 cups	15 minutes
Carrots – sliced	8 ounces	¼/4-inch slices	2 cups	15 minutes
Green beans	4 ounces	1 to 1½" slices	2 cups	8-9 minutes
		Whole, tipped and
Peas, snow	4 ounces	topped, strings	2 cups	11 minutes
		removed
Potatoes, new	8 ounces	Quartered	2 cups	23-24 minutes
(1½" diameter)
Potatoes	12 ounces	¾-inch dice	2 cups	23-24 minutes
Yellow/Gold
Sweet potatoes	8 ounces	Peeled, ½-inch dice	2 cups	18-19 minutes
Zucchini/	6 ounces	Halve lengthwise,	2 cups	11 minutes
yellow squash		¾-inch slices
Sweet potatoes	16 ounces	Peeled, ¾" cubes	2 cups	25 minutes
Poultry –		Cut into similiar size
	8-16 ounces	pieces, ½ x ½ x 3-	2 cups	15-20 minutes
chicken or turkey
		inches
		Peeled/unpeeled; may
		be seasoned with
	Up to one	herbs or prepared		12-15 minutes
Shrimp		seafood seasoning	2 cups	(will depend on size
	pound
		such as Old Bay®		of shrimp)
		(spray steaming tray
		with cooking spray)
		Season as desired
Scallops	Up to one	(spray steaming tray	2 cups	10-15 minutes
	pound	with cooking spray or
		line with leaf lettuce)
		Cut into 1½-inch
Fin fish (salmon,	up to one	squares; arrange
haddock, cod, sea		on lettuce leaves or	2 cups	10-15 minutes
	pound
bass, etc.)		parchment rounds in
		steaming tray
				21 minutes (place
Eggs, large	8	In shells	To one cup	in ice water
			mark	immediately to
				stop cooking)