Electrolux MCD2660E Adapting Recipes for Microwave Oven, Onion soup, Mushrooms with rosemary

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

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. 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)

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)

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.

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.

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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