Panasonic NN-C2000W manual Vegetable Soup, Baked Custard, Popcorn, Packet Cake, Variations

Everyday Basics

Vegetable Soup

Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
500 g	prepared vegetables of your choice
	(carrots, turnips, celery, etc.)
	finely chopped
1	onion, chopped
2 tablespoons	butter
2 tablespoons	plain flour
31/2 cups	chicken stock
	salt and pepper
3 tablespoons	parsley, chopped

Method:

Place vegetables, except onion, in a 3-litre casserole dish. Cover and cook on HIGH for 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside. Place onion and butter in a 4-cup jug and cook on HIGH for 2 to

3 minutes. Add flour to onion mixture and mix well. Cook on HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking. Add remaining stock and onion mixture to vegetables in casserole dish. Cook on HIGH for 12 to 14 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and serve, sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Baked Custard

	Serves: 4 to 5
	Ingredients:
	425 ml	milk
	3	eggs, lightly beaten
	1/4 cup	sugar
	1 teaspoon	vanilla essence
		pinch ground nutmeg
Guide	Method:
	Place milk in a 4-cup glass jug. Cook on HIGH for 2
	minutes. Add eggs, sugar and vanilla to milk,
	whisking all the time. Strain mixture into a 20 cm
Cooking	round dish, sprinkle with nutmeg.
	Cook on MED LOW for 15 to 17 minutes. Stand

covered for 5 minutes before serving.

Popcorn

Serves: 2 to 4
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons	butter
3 tablespoons	popping corn

Method:

Place all ingredients in a loosely twisted oven bag. Place oven bag on an inverted microwave-safe plate. Cook on HIGH for 2 minutes.

Remove from bag and serve sprinkled with salt.

Packet Cake

Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients:

1 packet cake mix (340 g)

ingredients as recommended by manufactures

Method:

Mix cake and other ingredients with a metal spoon. DO NOT OVER BEAT. Pour into 20 cm round dish that has been lightly greased and lined. Cook on MEDIUM for 6 to 8 minutes. Stand and allow to cool before removing.

Variations:

1 tablespoon jam added to batter before cooking.

Half the water suggested by manufacturer and add 1 cup sour cream to batter.

Half a cup chopped nuts, 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Mix and place on base of cake dish before adding batter to cake pan.

2 tablespoons honey and 30 g butter melted in glass jug, cook on HIGH for 30 to 60 seconds. Pour over just baked butter cake. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve warm with cream or custard as a dessert or cold with cream as a tea cake.

A quarter of a cup toasted muesli mixed with 1 tablespoon marmalade placed in the base of the dish.

Tip: Packet cakes are best mixed by hand as the microwaves will do the aerating.

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