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Steamer cookbook
101 Delicious dishes with healthy recipes for meat, fish, vegetables, noodle, dessert including vegetarian nutritional information!
Sarah Jones
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Why a paradise for the palate?
In many cookbooks you will find recipes that you can rarely cook exactly as the pictures promise. This often leads to negative associations when thinking about cooking. Especially the somewhat inexperienced cooks are now overwhelmed with unusual recipes that are hardly worthwhile to cook yourself because the effort is too great.
We at Palatine Paradise have therefore made it our mission to perfect and simplify the cooking experience of each individual.
We do not focus on the pictures, the presentation, the marketing, but exactly what a cookbook should be able to do:
Recipe variety - simplicity - culinary delight
Preface
Probably no one would have expected steam cooking to become so popular one day. Not only should it be healthy, it should also taste great. However, this is not just an empty claim, it is really true. Many of our foods today no longer contain as many minerals and vitamins as they should. That is why it is all the more important to try to preserve the minerals and vitamins present instead of destroying them through excessive cooking or frying.
It is very important to pay attention to a healthy diet, because some diseases can be avoided if it is ensured that the food you eat is not only of good quality, but is also carefully prepared. This can be ensured with a steamer.
In addition, there is the problem that more and more people tend to become overweight. Not least, we owe this to the excessive use of oil. You don't really need to use oil with a steamer. Oil is pure fat, and even the smallest amounts can have an awful lot of calories. It does not contain any fiber and therefore does not really fill you up. A spoonful of oil can have up to 400 kcal, which is roughly the equivalent of 4 bananas. So if you can do without unnecessary oil when cooking, you will save calories and do something good for your figure. In this book we take a closer look at steam cooking and give you 35 recipes to try out.
What is steam cooking
Steam cooking is an incredibly gentle way of cooking. Almost anything can be prepared in a steamer. This includes pasta, dumplings, meat and also vegetables. How exactly a steam oven works and what kind of cooking it uses will be looked at in another chapter.
First of all we would like to deal with the cooking of source products. These include pasta such as noodles, cereals such as millet, quinoa, polenta, rice and legumes such as lentils, beans and peas. If you want to cook swell products in a steamer, you have to add liquid. In this case, the steam alone would not be enough to cook them. With grain, a mixing ratio of one to one always applies. With rice, however, a little more water can be added, as some prefer to eat it less dry. White rice can be salted right at the beginning, but whole grain rice only at the end of the cooking time. The cooking time in a steamer is just as long as it is on a hob or as stated on the packaging. With pasta, you need to add more water than a one-to-one ratio. With 500 g of pasta it would be 750 ml of water.
When meat is cooked in the steamer, it becomes particularly tender, regardless of whether it is braised or boiled. Poultry in particular often dries quickly, which is not the case in a steam oven. It stays nice and juicy. The taste and ingredients are also retained and the meat does not have to be seasoned too much. In addition, no fat needs to be added. And here, too, the preparation time is just as long as on the stove. Even sausages can be prepared in the steamer and taste just as good as they do in the pan. However, it must be said here that steamed meat does not naturally brown. If you really want browned meat, you should either fry it briefly in the pan or afterwards or add a marinade or sauce, which can create the impression of browned meat. In terms of taste, steamed meat definitely leaves nothing to be desired.
Fish that is fried in the pan often toughen up quickly or disintegrate instantly. However, if you prepare your fish in the steamer, you can prevent the egg white from separating from the fish and so it remains tender and juicy.
But not only hearty foods can be prepared in the steamer, but also sweet ones. Stuffed apples, rice pudding, cakes and souffls are better than ever. Dumplings can also be prepared wonderfully, both savory and sweet, and there is no longer a problem with them falling apart. Anyone who prepares fruit dumplings will be particularly pleased with the well-preserved color of the fruit and that so many vitamins are contained, and the taste remains intense.
Regardless of whether it is about cooked vegetables or fruit, the problem is often that many vitamins and minerals are lost when they are heated. However, this does not happen with steam cooking. In addition, taste and color are retained. In addition, the steamer can also reduce fruit particularly well.
Benefits of steaming
Steam cooking not only saves time and work in the kitchen, it is also good for your health and super easy. It's especially great when you have a combi steamer, because you can use it to prepare almost anything you want. Some have concerns about not knowing exactly how to use such a device, but it is really easy. Once you get the hang of it, you can no longer imagine a kitchen without a steamer. Here are some advantages that could convince you to either buy a steamer or use your steamer more often.
Advantage 1:
steaming is super easy! The best way to orientate yourself is to follow this simple basic rule: Everything that can be cooked can also be steamed in the steamer. And the cooking time is exactly the same. Potatoes that take 25 minutes on the stove also take 25 minutes in the steamer.
Advantage 2:
The temperature can be easily determined and remains the same after the setting. Almost everything is cooked at a temperature of 100 C. There are only a few exceptions and as long as you don't know them by heart, you can write them down on a piece of paper and look up. But after a while they will become your flesh and blood.
Guide values:
Fish - 75-85 C
Souffl - 90-100 C
Sausages - 90 C
Melt chocolate - 60 C
Let yeast dough rise - 40 C
Advantage 3:
The steamer saves you a lot of time. Because once you've put the food in the steamer, you don't have to worry about it anymore. You can go away and do something else without worrying about what might burn or boil over. Since the device switches itself off as soon as the time is up, leaving the house for a short time is not a problem. Nevertheless, it is also important to be careful here. Something can always go wrong in the kitchen, the time could be set incorrectly or something similar. We don't want your kitchen to be gone when you get home. Therefore, please be careful and monitor your stove, or have it monitored, should you still leave the house.
Advantage 4:
a steamer saves energy costs. In most steamers you can prepare several things at the same time, which without it would take a lot longer and for which you would have to spend a lot more energy. However, preparing three dishes in one steamer uses just as much electricity as one. And you don't even have to worry about the taste or smell of the other dishes being carried over. However, an external steam generator is important for this. And dishes should not be left together in the steamer to cool down.