Cutlets in a double boiler - tips and secrets.

Vegetables, omelets, cutlets in a double boiler are more useful and dietary than traditional cooking in a frying pan. Moreover, this way you can cook much faster and easier, while outwardly the dishes will look more appetizing. This method of preparation is indispensable for dietary and baby food. In addition, to cook for a couple, it is not at all necessary to purchase an expensive steamer, microwave oven or multivark. You can dispense with a wide pan with a grate.

Recipes for cooking on steamed dishes differ little from ordinary ones. For example, we cook chicken cutlets in a double boiler in the same way as for frying in a frying pan. Only the way of heat treatment differs. In the mince we add finely chopped onion, egg, white bread soaked in milk, salt and pepper to taste. Often the authors of culinary recipes suggest lubricating the surface of the cutlet before cooking with butter or adding sour cream to it, ostensibly for juiciness. Believe me, by this you will only add a fatty dish and neglect all your efforts. It is better to ask your family members to use the sauce separately. If your household cutlets are not very fond of steam, first time you can fry them first, and until ready to bring already a couple. At least half of the excess fat will move from the finished dish to the pan.

For those who want to lose weight, we recommend cooking vegetable patties in a double boiler. The dish turns out very tasty, and most importantly beautiful. And, there is no need to roll the cutlets in breadcrumbs, thus adding calories to the diet.

To prepare this culinary masterpiece, take half a kilogram of beet, a large onion, half a glass of prunes without pits, an egg, 150 ml of very hot water, a tablespoon of semolina. Beetroot must be grated on a large grater, chop the onion finely together with prunes, soak semolina for 20 minutes in water. Then mix everything, mix the egg into the mixture, season with salt and pepper. Form the cutlets and bring them to the ready in the steamer. Unlike the usual way of cooking in a frying pan, in our case, the beets do not need to be stewed. Just a dish will be prepared a little longer.
In the same way, you can cook cabbage patties. Carrot cutlets for a couple, if they add a little dried apricots and sugar, will completely replace the dessert. And if you serve them with sour cream, thank you even those who do not like vegetables too much will say.

The best dishes for a steamer are all kinds of vegetables: broccoli, carrots, cabbage, potatoes. When cooking for a couple, they perfectly retain color, aroma, and most importantly, nutrients and vitamins. Perfectly obtained in a double boiler and stuffed peppers or cabbage rolls. The filling for them can be both meat and vegetable.

Another plus of this method of cooking can be considered and the fact that a vegetable garnish and cutlets in a double boiler can be done simultaneously. This is very time-saving mistress. At the end of cooking, do not rush to pour out the contents of the pallets, from it you can prepare a delicious sauce for the dishes. Juice the meat diluted with boiling water, put in a spoonful of concentrated tomato paste. Dilute a couple of spoons of flour to a dense spoonful and pour the contents into the sauce preform. Warm the mixture for another couple of minutes, stirring intensely. Do not forget to add pepper and salt. Sauce for meat, vegetables or fish is ready.

From vegetable broth, you can cook onion and tomato sauce. To do this, fry one finely chopped onion in a spoonful of olive oil, add tomato paste and half a glass of vegetable broth. Boil the mixture until thick, at the end add cream, pepper and salt. The sauce is perfectly combined with fish, vegetables and eggs.

Prepare in a modern steamer you can do everything from syrniki to dumplings and pilaf. Perhaps, at first you will find these dishes insipid. To add piquancy to the finished food, use herbs, dried and fresh, ground and cayenne pepper. But it's better to forget about widely advertised seasonings based on sodium glutamate . This packet, containing the entire list of chemical elements, is capable of inflicting enormous harm on your health.