The benefits of steamed dishes are obvious and undoubtedly the most weighty motivation for introducing them into your diet. Such a method of heat treatment of products retains to the maximum their properties, the composition of vitamins and various elements, which are mostly destroyed during frying and transfer to water during cooking.
Dishes for steaming can be cooked in a double boiler or in a multivark equipped with a special basket, using the steam mode. And in the absence of such a technique in your kitchen, a steamer can be built from a regular pan, by installing a sieve and not covering it with a lid.
Fish with Vegetables on Steam - recipe
Ingredients:
- steaks or fish fillets - 750 g;
- carrots - 175 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 175 g;
- onion - 85 g;
- garlic - 2-3 teeth;
- lemon - 1/2 pcs .;
- spicy dry herbs - to taste;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
In order for a fish cooked for a couple to have a pleasant sourness and become more tenderly marinated in lemon juice for forty minutes. During this time, we will prepare vegetables properly. We clean and shred enough large straw carrots, and we remove the sweet Bulgarian pepper from the seed box and the peduncle and cut into half rings. Similarly, we refine also the peeled onions, and the garlic is cut into plates.
One section of the foil is lined on the main stage of the steamer and begins to lay the layers of prepared vegetables. First lay a layer of onions, and on it carrots. Then we distribute the half-rings of pepper and garlic plates, add everything and season it with spicy dried herbs. On the vegetable box lay the prommarinated fish, pre-seasoning it with salt and the desired spices. Now we cover the fish with vegetables on top of the second cut of foil and seal it. The smaller the gaps between the sheets of foil, the more saturated the taste of the dish, but the cooking time will increase. Therefore, if you want to speed up the cooking process, you can leave the foil a little ajar, but lose a bit of flavor. Although many argue that the loss is almost insignificant and can be caught only by true gourmets. The time of preparation of this dish, given the above nuances, can vary from thirty to fifty minutes.
Vareniks for a couple - recipe
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 820-920 g;
- kefir with fat content of 2.5% - 520 ml;
- baking soda - 0,5 tsp;
- fresh pressed yeast - 15 g;
- granulated sugar - 25 g;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Preparation
We start cooking dumplings from the process of activating yeast. For its realization in warm kefir we give first to blossom fresh yeast, to dissolve sugar crystals and to extinguish food soda, for which the mixture is thoroughly stirred. We place the mass in warmth and comfort for fifteen minutes after that, and then, adding small amounts of sifted and mixed with salt flour, mix a soft, absolutely not sticky dough.
We put the billets temporarily on the surface dusted with flour. To cook dumplings in our case we will be on steam. For this purpose, it is suitable as a steamer or a multivark with the function of cooking on steam, and a homemade device from a pot of boiling water and pre-mounted gauze on which we place the prepared products. It is enough only to cover the structure with a three-dimensional lid and stand with boiling water for five to seven minutes.