There are a lot of cooking methods, someone likes dishes with lots of spices, someone likes fried food. Few people know what effects on the body have ways to prepare different dishes. We need to take care that food is not only delicious, but healthy.
There are several secrets about how to prepare, so that you can not damage your health
- Bake the meat in the oven, pre-wrap it in foil,
- If someone does not like baked meat, you can cook with vegetables,
- It is better to use herbal spices, like dill, thyme, basil,
- It is better to cook vegetables for a couple.
Why is cooking useful for a couple? With this method, all the nutrients that are contained in the products are stored. At the same time, vegetables retain their natural color, and the meat remains juicy. Advantages of steaming:
- low fat content,
- easy digestion of products,
- low loss of nutrients,
- Rapid softening of food products.
People who care about their figure, who want to reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and the development of diabetes, should change the way they prepare food, and replace it with steaming.
First, discard such an established opinion that they prepare food for a couple of vegetarians and peanuts. The dishes are not dry and fresh. To cook in a double boiler you can have porridges, puddings, desserts, omelets, vegetables. Poultry and fish are especially well-received, as they absorb more flavors from spices and herbs on which they are prepared.
Secondly, food for a couple is useful and enjoyable. The products do not have contact with the liquid, therefore they contain useful substances and remain juicy. Vegetables when boiling lose 70% of vitamin C, while cooked for steaming only - 40%. They do not require any oil, the caloric content of the dishes does not decrease. In a double boiler, nothing will burn, it will not dry out, it will not escape. Even if you forget to turn off the steam cooker, nothing will happen, when all the water has evaporated or the set time has elapsed, the appliance switches itself off automatically.
If there is not enough space in the kitchen, you can buy a multi-level steamer, vertical. You need to know that you have to prepare for a long time, you need to put it in the lower steam basket, and quickly - into the upper basket. Juicy foods, meat and fish should be placed on the lower basket, moisture can drip from them.
A steamer can be used for culinary purposes. You can quickly warm up the food, you can defrost the food, you can sterilize baby bottles. Dishes cooked in a double boiler are more beneficial to the body than cooked in a microwave oven. The steamer is easy to clean, food that is cooked, does not stick to the walls of steam baskets and to the bottom.
Chopped chopped cutlets
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons of milk, 80 grams of wheat bread, 300 grams of veal.
For sauce: 2 teaspoons of fatty cream or butter, 320 grams of broth, lemon juice, 2 teaspoons of wheat flour, 320 grams of broth, pepper and salt to taste.
Preparation. From the neck, from the flesh of the scapula, soft scraps and pieces, we prepare the cutlet mass. We'll make it for cutlets or for bits without breading. Put the products in a saucepan, oiled, add a little broth and let it sit for 15 or 20 minutes. We will take out the cutlets, and from the dried flour and broth, in which they are allowed, we will prepare a white sauce. Fill it with salt, lemon juice, butter. If desired, in the sauce we add chopped boiled mushrooms, per serving 10 grams. When serving cutlets with sauce. We serve Brussels or cauliflower, beans, green peas, friable rice porridge, or we serve with a complex vegetable garnish.
Salad with porcini mushrooms and with beef
Ingredients: 6 pickled cucumbers, 200 grams of beef, 8 pieces of onions, 6 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 10 ceps, salt greens to taste.
Preparation. We cut the beef into thin strips and weld them on the first tier of the steamer. Mushrooms are cooked in a normal saucepan, the broth from the mushrooms is cooled, and we will not pour. Marinated cucumbers, boiled white mushrooms, onions cut into strips. Cucumbers and onions are combined, add 4 tablespoons of cucumber marinade and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, mix and leave for one hour.
Add to the cucumber and pickled onions, mushrooms with 2 tablespoons of mushroom broth, meat and the remaining vegetable oil. Let's add it and put it for another hour in the refrigerator. Before serving, lay the slide on the dish, sprinkle with dill and parsley.
Salad with pineapple and shrimps
Ingredients: 150 grams of shrimp, ½ pineapple, 1 tablespoon of coconut chips, 1 teaspoon of curry, 2 tablespoons of cognac, 250 grams of vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons of milk, ½ lemon juice, grated zest and juice ½ orange, 150 grams of rice, black ground pepper, salt to taste.
Preparation. Shrimp and rice are cooked in salted water for a couple. Pineapple is cleaned, we cut out the core, the flesh is cut into small cubes. Well we'll fuck yolks with zest and orange juice, we'll add a little ground pepper, curry powder, milk, lemon juice, without stopping whipping. In the resulting mass, we introduce 2 tablespoons of cognac and vegetable oil. We'll put boiled rice, pineapple cubes and peeled shrimp in a salad bowl. Fill the salad with sauce and leave for half an hour, let it soak. Before serving, we'll sprinkle a ready-made salad, coconut chips, toasted on a dry frying pan.
Cold pork appetizer
Ingredients: 1,5 kg of pork, 70 grams of fat, 2 eggs, 4 cloves of garlic, 1 carrot, salt to taste.
Preparation. Eggs boil hard, cool, clean and finely chop. Pork let's pass 2 times through a meat grinder with a fine grate. On wet gauze, lay pork forcemeat with a layer about 2 centimeters thick. On ground meat, we will evenly decompose finely chopped carrots, garlic, fat, and eggs. We wrap the roll in gauze, wrap it in a strong thread, put it in a steam basket and cook for 55 minutes. The welded roll is cooled under a press, we will release it from gauze and thread. We serve with sliced thin slices.
Ham and egg
Ingredients: 15 grams of ham, 3 eggs, 300 grams of broth, 10 grams of white wine, 5 grams of leeks, 50 grams of pork fat, salt to taste.
Preparation. Eggs vzobem and poured into heat-resistant dishes. We chop the ham and leeks finely. Onions are mixed with eggs and salted. Let's pour broth, white wine into the mixture and mix well. Pole the mixture with pork fat and put in a steamer on a small fire for 15 minutes. We take out the mixture from the steamer, put the ham and put it on the dish, we serve it to the table.
Potato salad with oranges, mint and asparagus
Ingredients: 550 grams of fresh potatoes, dressing, 200 grams of asparagus, 3 or 4 mint sprigs, 1/2 orange peel.
Preparation. Put the young potatoes in a steamer with orange peel and 2 sprigs of mint. Cooking for a couple of 5 or 10 minutes until ready. Add the asparagus, mix with 1 tablespoon minced chop, pepper, dressing and salt.
Fish with citrus and garlic sauce in foil
Ingredients for 4 servings: 4 pieces of fish fillets, ½ bunch of parsley, 1.5 teaspoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of orange juice, 3 heads of garlic, pepper and salt to taste. .
Preparation. Garlic crushed and mixed with lemon and orange juices, pepper, salt, soy sauce, olive oil. On the table, we decompose 4 squares of foil, fold the edges. In the center of each square we put a piece of fillet. We mix the marinade and put it in a spoon on the fish. Top with each fillet chopped parsley. We pack in foil, so that water can not enter. We will pour 1.5 cups of water into the inner bowl or into the tank. Install the steam basket and the pan or bowl. Put the fish packed in foil into it.
Cover and cook for 20 or 25 minutes, until the fish begins to separate from the bones, for this, 20 minutes after cooking, open the foil and check its readiness. When the fish is ready, put it into the plates. Unfold the foil and lay out the fish. Immediately we serve to the table.
Fish with mayonnaise
Ingredients for 5 servings take: 400 grams of fish (hake, catfish, cod and others), 200 grams of mayonnaise. And also 200 grams of onions, 400 grams of carrots, greens, peppers, salt.
Preparation. Prepared fish cut into pieces, pepper, salt and leave for 10 or 15 minutes in a tray for cereals. Add some water to the fish and cook in the steamer for 20 minutes. Chopped onions chopped with onion and carrots we put in an even layer on the fish, a little salted, fill with mayonnaise and cook for 20 minutes. We serve in a bowl in which the fish was cooked, sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Lasagna
Ingredients for 4 servings: 3 eggs, 1 glass of wheat flour, 250 grams of spinach, 80 grams of butter, 100 grams of cheese, 1 or 2 onions, 250 ml of broth. 600 grams of chicken fillet, 2 tomatoes, salt, pepper to taste.
Preparation. We'll prick and drink the spinach. We will pour the flour on the table with a mound, make a funnel in it and put spinach puree into it. Let's add salt. Egg, knead the dough and roll out, such layers as for noodles. Let's dry a little, cut into strips 1 cm wide and 10 cm long. Cook their steamer for 15 or 20 minutes.
Chicken fillet cut into small pieces and fry. Put the chopped onion, when browned, add tomatoes and flour and salt. Then let's pour the broth and stew while the meat is soft. The sauce should not be thick. Meat can not be removed from it. Finished plates passeruem in oil, put on a plate, sprinkle with grated cheese and black pepper. Sauce served separately.
Stuffed cabbage with tomato sauce
Ingredients 4 servings: 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 2 shallots onions, 300 grams of tomato, 250 grams of sausage, 4 leaves of green cabbage, a clove of garlic, black pepper and salt.
We will wash the leaves of cabbage. Put them on the bottom tray, put the tomatoes on the top tray of the steamer. Cooking for 10 minutes. Let the tomatoes and cabbage leaves cool. We will decompose the leaves of cabbage and put on them sausage stuffing, fold an envelope. Put it on the bottom tray and cook for a couple of twenty minutes. With tomatoes, we peel and peel. We pour oil into a saucepan, crushed garlic, add shallot and stir. Add the tomatoes, season and fry over low heat for 10 minutes. We serve stuffed cabbage with tomato sauce to the table.
Zrazy chicken
Ingredients: 120 grams of chicken, ½ egg whites, 10 grams of butter, 15 grams of rice.
Chicken meat 2 times we pass through a meat grinder and a half rice porridge. Well we shall blow up with wet hands, we will divide into two parts, and we will give each part the form of a pancake. Put the remaining rice porridge on the middle of the pancake, which we mix with the chopped protein, we will join the edges, wrap it in the form of a pie and bring it to steam until ready. We serve to the table with oil.
Mexican appetizer
Ingredients for 2 servings: 50 grams of ham, 50 grams of meat, 30 grams of onions, 5 ml of vinegar, 10 ml of vegetable oil, 3 grams of parsley, 50 grams of pickled sweet pepper, salt.
Preparation. We cook the meat in a steamer for 20 or 25 minutes. Finely chop the ham and meat, mix it with chopped onions, peppers, parsley greens. We mix the oil with the vinegar, season with salt and pepper, fill this mixture with lettuce and mix well.
Vareniki lazy from potatoes
Ingredients for 4 servings: 300 grams of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon of starch, 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 eggs, 4 potatoes, salt.
Preparation. We'll peel the potatoes, put them in the steamer and cook for 8 or 12 minutes. Cottage cheese mixed with potatoes and rubbed. We add egg yolks, ground with butter, whipped proteins, starch, flour, salt and weave. From the resulting mass of blind lazy vareniki, put it in a steamer, cook for 5 or 8 minutes. With the flow of melted butter to the table.
Chocolate English pudding
Ingredients: 60 grams of flour, ½ teaspoon of soda, 2 tablespoons of grated almonds, 1 tablespoon of cognac, 2 eggs, 50 grams of butter. 125 grated breadcrumbs, 1/8 milk, 60 grams of sugar, 1 or 2 tablespoons cream, 3 tablespoons of cocoa.
Preparation. Cocoa mix with breadcrumbs, add cream or milk, soak for 10 minutes. The oil is mixed with sugar and well razredem, add soda, flour, yolk, and then cognac, almonds and breadcrumbs. Separately, we'll break up the proteins with sugar and add them to the dough. The prepared dough is placed in a mold, oiled, and put for 1 hour in a steamer. In hot form we serve with vanilla sauce.
Now we know how to prepare dishes for a couple of secrets and recipes. We hope you enjoy these recipes for delicious and healthy food. Bon Appetit!