Vegetables, omelettes, meatballs in a double boiler turn out to be more useful and dietary than with traditional cooking in a pan. Moreover, in this way you can cook much faster and easier, while outwardly the dishes will look more appetizing. This method of preparation is indispensable for diet and baby food. In addition, to steam, it is absolutely not necessary to purchase an expensive double boiler, microwave or slow cooker. You can get by with a wide pan with a wire rack.
Steamed recipes do not differ much from ordinary recipes. For example, we cook chicken cutlets in a double boiler in the same way as for frying in a pan. Only the method of heat treatment differs. Add finely chopped onion, egg, white bread, soaked in milk, salt and pepper to taste to the minced meat. Often authors of recipes suggest greasing the surface of the patty before cooking with butter or adding sour cream to it, supposedly for juiciness. Believe me, by doing this you will only add a dish of fat and nullify all your efforts. Better invite your family members to use the sauce separately. If your household does not like steam cutlets too much, at first you can fry them first, and then bring them to the steaming until ready. At least half of the excess fat will transfer from the finished dish to the pallet.
For those who want to lose weight, we recommend cooking vegetable cutlets in a double boiler. The dish turns out very tasty, and most importantly beautiful. Moreover, there is no need to roll cutlets in breadcrumbs, thereby adding calories to the diet.
To prepare this culinary masterpiece, take half a kilogram of beets, a large onion, half a glass of pitted prunes, an egg, 150 ml of very hot water, a tablespoon of semolina. Grate beets on a coarse grater, chop onion finely with prunes, soak semolina for 20 minutes in water. Then mix everything, beat the egg in the mixture, salt and pepper. Form the patties and bring them to a cook in a double boiler. Unlike the usual way of cooking in a pan, in our case, beets do not need to be stewed first. Just the dish will take a little longer to cook.
In the same way, you can cook cabbage cutlets. Steamed carrots, if you add a little dried apricots and sugar, completely replace the dessert. And if you serve them with sour cream, even those who don’t too much favor vegetables will say thanks.
The best dishes for a double boiler are all kinds of vegetables: broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes. When steamed, they perfectly retain their color, aroma, and most importantly, nutrients and vitamins. Stuffed in a double boiler and stuffed peppers or cabbage rolls. The filling for them can be either meat or vegetable.
Another advantage of this cooking method can be considered that the vegetable side dish and meatballs in a double boiler can be done at the same time. This greatly saves the time of the hostess. At the end of cooking, do not rush to pour the contents of the pallets; you can prepare a delicious sauce for dishes from it. Dilute the juice from meat with boiling water, put a spoonful of concentrated tomato paste in it. Dilute a couple of spoons of flour to a thick sour cream and pour the contents into the saucepan. Warm the mixture for a couple of minutes, stirring vigorously. Remember to add pepper and salt. The sauce is ready for meat, vegetables or fish.
From a vegetable broth, you can prepare onion and tomato sauce. To do this, fry one finely chopped onion in a spoon of olive oil, add tomato paste and half a glass of vegetable broth. We boil the mixture until thickened, at the end add cream, pepper and salt. The sauce goes well with fish, vegetables and eggs.
You can cook everything in a modern double boiler, from cheesecakes to dumplings and pilaf. Perhaps at first you will find these dishes fresh. To add piquancy to the finished food, use greens, dried and fresh, ground and cayenne peppers. But it is better to forget about widely advertised seasonings based on sodium glutamate . This bag containing the entire list of chemical elements is capable of causing tremendous harm to your health.