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ROASTED NUTS

 

Serves: 2 to 4

Ingredients:

1 cup (150 g) raw peanuts (with or without skins, and unsalted)

1 teaspoon vegetable oil salt to taste

Method:

Place peanuts in a single layer on a pie plate. Drizzle nuts with oil and sprinkle with salt. Cook on P10 for 4 to 6 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes during cooking, until golden brown. Stir well. Serve hot or cold in a small bowl.

SPEEDY NACHOS

Serves: 2 to 4

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1 (310 g)

can red kidney beans, drained

1 cup

chilli salsa

 

 

200 g

packet corn chips

 

 

1 cup

grated cheese

 

 

Method:

Mix kidney beans and salsa in a 1-litre dish. Place corn chips in the base of a flat dish. Pour sauce over beans and top with grated cheese. Cook on P10 for 4 to 5 minutes.

Note: Chilli salsa can be substituted with your favourite tomato relish.

NUTS AND BOLTS

Serves: 6 to 8

Ingredients:

 

80 g

butter

2 teaspoons

curry powder

2 tablespoons

worcestershire sauce

12 teaspoon

salt

14 teaspoon

garlic powder

100 g

packet mixed rice crackers

100 g

fried noodles

200 g

salted peanuts

125 g

packet pretzel sticks

12 cup

Nutri-Grain

Method:

Place butter, curry, worcestershire sauce, salt and garlic powder in a 3-litre casserole dish. Cook on P10 for 1 to 2 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, mix well and cook on P10 for 4 to 5 minutes. Stir twice during cooking. Allow to cool. Place in a bowl and serve with drinks. Store in an airtight container once cool.

HINT:

TO MAKE CROUTONS:

Remove crusts from 3 slices of bread and cut into cubes. Place in a pyrex bowl with 1 tablespoon of butter and cook on P10 for 2 to 3 minutes.

HINT:

TO REHEAT A CROISSANT:

Wrap in paper towel and place on a dinner plate, cook on P10 for 15 to 30 seconds.

NACHOS SUPREME

Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients:

 

500 g

topside mince

35 g

packet taco seasoning mix

13 cup

tomato paste

1 teaspoon

Mexican chilli powder

1(310 g)

can red kidney beans, mashed in

 

liquid

180 g

packet corn chips

1

avocado

12 cup

sour cream

12 cup

grated cheese

 

paprika

Method:

Place meat in a 2-litre dish. Cover and cook on P7 for 6 minutes stirring halfway through cooking. Mix with fork, breaking up any large pieces of meat. Add taco mix, tomato paste, chilli powder and kidney beans. Cook on P7 for further 10 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking. Place corn chips in a 3-litre microwave suitable serving dish. Pile meat sauce in the centre. In a small bowl, mash avocado and mix in sour cream. Spoon this mixture over meat sauce and top with grated cheese. Sprinkle with paprika. Heat on P7 for 3 to 4 minutes.

STUFFED POTATOES

Serve: 4

Ingredients:

 

4 (700 g)

potatoes, unpeeled

Method:

Pierce the skin of each potato several times with a fork. Place potatoes evenly around a microwave safe dinner plate. Cook on P10 for 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly. Cut tops off potatoes and reserve. Scoop out potato flesh leaving a 1 cm thick shell. Mash potato flesh and mix with your choice of filling. Pile back into potato shell. Replace top and heat potatoes on P10 for 2 minutes.

Filling:

 

Corn & bacon

 

1

rasher bacon, finely chopped

125 g

creamed corn

14 cup

grated cheddar cheese

1

green onion, finely sliced

Method:

Place bacon onto a microwave safe dinner plate. Cover with paper towel and cook on P10 for 1 minute. Mix with remaining ingredients.

Tomato pesto

 

12 cup

spreadable cream cheese

12 cup

chopped sun-dried tomatoes

2 tablespoons

pinenuts, roasted

2 tablespoons

grated Parmesan cheese

2 tablespoons

chopped basil

Method:

Mix together all ingredients.

Soups and Snacks

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Panasonic NN-ST756W manual Hint, Filling Corn & bacon, Tomato pesto

NN-ST756W specifications

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