You care about your health and figure? Or, you want to diversify the menu of home cooking? Or maybe you want to cook meals while preserving the natural taste of food? If at least one of these questions you answered yes, then it's time to start to cook in a double boiler! Using this wonderful culinary creations, and you can save the most useful properties of foods and dietary meals to cook and pamper their unusual home dinner, breakfast and dinner. So we cook in a double boiler: recipes and tips.

Gourmet dinner

Let's start with the recipe simple but spectacular. Firstly, it is perfect for the "training" in the case, if you are just starting to cook in a double boiler. Well, and secondly, the result is sure to satisfy even the most discerning palates.

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts
• 8 medium potatoes
• 2 carrots
• 2 onions
• Forks cauliflower
• Salt to taste

Preparation:

Fill in a double boiler water to a boil. Peel the potatoes and cut each potato into four parts. Laying the potatoes in the bottom compartment steamers, salt. Cabbage and disassembled into my Kocheshkov. Carrots cut into rings, onion - large cubes. With chicken breast fillets cut off (or take a ready-made fillet without bones) and divide into 4 parts. Vegetables are laying the second compartment steamers: can be mixed in, but you can layer. Top laid meat. Add some salt. We expose double boiler at full capacity and prepare dinner for about an hour. Serve with sour cream, mayonnaise or cheese sauce.

Stew "Red Sun"

Interestingly, almost all the products selected for this dish of red or orange color and because they cook in a double boiler, the color is preserved vegetable dish! But the taste ... Taste vote themselves, having prepared such an unusual stew.

In three batches require such ingredients:

• Raw red fish (salmon, salmon, coho, salmon) - about 200 g
• 3 medium carrots
• Tomato
• Bulb
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

Carrot mine, clean and rub on a coarse grater. Fish fillets cut into pieces of medium size. Dice tomatoes and rings (that's how you prefer). The fish - to medium pieces. All the ingredients are laid in a bowl of rice and cook for about forty minutes. Five minutes before the final readiness stew add to it salt and pepper. Other seasonings - on request.

Zucchini stuffed with "Enjoy Your Bath! "

"Harmful" stuffing meat in this dish easily compensated by "shell" - zucchini, as well as the way of cooking - steaming. And if we take into account the absolute lack of oil, this recipe can be safely included in the diet menu.

Ingredients:

• 1 large zucchini not
• Minced any meat (which you like) - 500 g
• 2-3 onions
• Black pepper
• Salt

Preparation:

Peeled zucchini, cut it lengthwise into two parts and remove all the seeds and part of the flesh. Finely chop the onion and mix it with the meat. Pepper and salt beef, zucchini halves stuffed with them. We are recovering our semi-finished products in a steamer and bring to readiness.

  "The dream of a vegetarian"

Do vegetarians dream about this dish? Maybe. But everyone else certainly will appreciate Bulgarian peppers stuffed with mixed vegetables.

Ingredients:

• Sweet pepper (8-10 pcs.)
• White cabbage (half a small head of cabbage)
• Onions (8 pcs.)
• Carrots (4 pcs.)
• Parsley and dill
• Vegetable oil (third cup)
• Salt

Preparation:

My Peppers, cut the top and take out the seeds. Once again, well washed and obsushivayut. Prepare the filling for stuffing. All vegetables (except peppers) shinkuem thin strips and lightly fry in vegetable oil. Finely chopped fresh herbs add to the vegetables, salt. Stuffed vegetable stuffing peppers and put them in a steam basket. Cooking in a double boiler with the lid closed for about twenty minutes. While preparing peppers, cheese Grate. Then sprinkle with cheese peppers and leave them in the steamer for another ten minutes.

Steam meatballs "Hedgehog in the Fog"

This unusual way of cooking meatballs make them attractive to even the most finicky eating habits of children. And if you are ready to submit the meatballs with "fantasy" by making "grass" of the green, and the "flowers and mushrooms" from fresh vegetables, your fussy also asks supplements.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of minced meat
• 100 g long-grain rice
• Garlic (2 cloves)
• Onions (1 pc.)
• Salt
• Black pepper

Preparation:

To start soak the rice in cold boiled water and leave it to "soak" for a couple of hours. Soaked and swollen rice removed from the water, and were dried. Now prepare the stuffing: adding the chopped onion and garlic, salt and pepper, stir. Getting forming meatballs. From stuffing balls roll down (with egg) and their run-dry rice. Meatballs are stacked on the lower level of a double boiler and cook for forty minutes. Opening a steamer, we discover that all risinki meatballs on "stood up" magically transform meat balls charming hedgehogs!

Note:

Rice for "Hedgehog in the Fog" should only take long! With round rice transformation will not happen! You can prepare this dish in a double boiler or in a pan for a couple, having put the meatballs in a colander and cover with lid.

Cheese Casserole "Banana-mama"

It turns out, you can cook in a double boiler, and all your favorite casseroles! For example, lemon curd recipe casserole with bananas. A sort of a diet version of a light dinner.

Ingredients:

• Half a kilo of cheese
• Munk (3 tbsp. L.)
• 2 eggs
• 2 bananas
• A third of a glass of milk
• Lemon zest
• 3 tbsp. l. sugar
• Salt

Preparation:

Semolina pour the milk and leave for thirty minutes. Egg whisk with sugar (to white). Add them cheese, semolina, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. If the dough get a very liquid, then pour a little dry semolina. Then take the "Steamer" container of rice and pour into it half the cheese mass. From above stack sliced ​​banana slices and pour the remaining half. Cooking casserole in a double boiler for half an hour. At the exit we have - a gentle, non-greasy, flavorful baked pudding souffle.

Polenta "Moldavanka"

It is known that cooking corn grits is very difficult. It sticks to the pan, quickly burnt and requires constant stirring. In short, a lot of time, confusion and unwarranted result. So enterprising housewives have come up with a way to simplify and speed up the complex and lengthy process. If corn porridge to cook in a double boiler, then the result would be the best one hundred percent.

Ingredients:

• Corn grits (100 g)
• Sugar (2 tbsp. L.)
• Water (200 g)
• Butter, cream (2 tbsp. L.)
• Milk (200 g)
• Salt

Preparation:

The washed corn grits poured into the container for cooking rice and pour the milk mixed with water. Turn the steamer and cook porridge forty or fifty minutes. After the allotted time, add to the porridge sugar, salt and butter. After that, we give porridge Cook for another five minutes, and turn off the steamer. However, the porridge is desirable for some time left in the steamer: Then, porridge will only tastier.

Khanum

This dish - a classic steam and Uzbek national cuisine. Like many oriental dishes Aliyeva is known in many variants. It is prepared with meat, potatoes and onions with vegetables, greens, and cheese. But we will consider the option that successfully replace troublesome to prepare dumplings.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat (about a kilogram)
• Onions (2 pcs.)
• Water
• Flour
• Egg
• Salt
• Black pepper

Preparation:

Onions clean and very finely cut. Add it to the beef, season with minced pepper, salt, and knead. Prepare the dough. The golden rule of cooking dumplings and dumplings states that the test should be the same as meat, and (v). That's why, focusing on the amount of cooked meat, knead the dough. Pour into a bowl the flour, salt, egg and break, gradually adding water, mesim dough. Mesim up until the dough starts well keep up with the arms and walls of utensils.

Give the dough rasstoyatsya fifteen minutes and rolled it into a thin layer. On the formation of the test lay out the stuffing evenly him "smearing." Then turn off the roll. Firmly and gently zaschipyvaem dough with ends and along the roll, turn semicircle and placed in a steamer. Cook for about an hour.

Note:

It is best to cook in a double boiler Aliyeva no electricity, and normal. This, which is placed on the fire.

Useful tips

• Any food in the steamer should be laid loosely.
• Frozen vegetables in a steamer for cooking is not necessary to defrost. It is only necessary to increase the time necessary for their preparation.
• Defrost in a double boiler can not be any products.
• Fat from meat and poultry (as the last - and the skin) before cooking in a double boiler, you can not clean up. They will turn the meat juicier and tastier. Calorie and "Cholesterol harm" products, in this case you do not have to bother. And the fat, and cholesterol in meat does not pass. So they have to remove the meat to cook.
• Cook grits in a double boiler without water is impossible.
• Sliced ​​vegetables in a double boiler cook faster, but the whole are obtained tastier.
• The fish and seafood need to fill in a double boiler until the water it does not become very hot.
• To make the dish spice to the water to boil, you can add flavorful sauces, spices, citrus and table wine.

So what to cook in a double boiler - a real pleasure, maximum value and a minimum of effort. This miracle of kitchen equipment retain (and increase!), Your health, save the figure and save power. Tempting? Then move on!