For some reason, many housewives, having in their kitchenarsenal microwave oven, use it only for heating or defrosting products. Meanwhile, in the microwave cook fish and meat, cereals and soups, and even the most simple microwave can replace the oven, for example, for baking, to prepare soufflé or casseroles. At the same time, the cooking time is shortened, and the food is no worse than in the oven. Try, for example, to cook a casserole from potatoes. Potato casserole in a microwave can be so varied that you simply marvel at it. However, see for yourself, trying to cook this dish with minced meat, cheese, chicken, sausage or vegetables. 
Baked meat casserole
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 200 g
- Onion - 1 head
- Potatoes - 4 pieces
- Eggs - 2 pieces
- Butter - 2 tablespoons
- Milk - 2 tablespoons
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
- Green parsley (chopped) - 2 tablespoons
- Salt and black pepper to your taste
Preparation: To begin with, we peel off the peel and cut small potatoes into small cubes. After that, we lay the potatoes in a microwave pot, add a couple of tablespoons of water to it, cover it with a lid and send it to the oven for five minutes. The power of the microwave oven is 800 W. In the meantime, we begin to engage in minced meat for casseroles. We put it in a bowl, to our taste we put black ground pepper and salt and add tomato paste and chopped onions. We add one or two tablespoons of water and mix onions with minced meat and tomato paste. Now we take a short but wide form (glass or plastic) and put the potatoes into it. Align the layer and put the prepared minced meat on top, which we also distribute evenly. The height of the casserole should not be more than five centimeters, otherwise it will get warmed up badly. It remains to pour all the eggs whipped with milk and put the casserole in the oven for five to seven minutes at a power of 800 watts. Ready casserole let stand for about five minutes, sprinkle it with chopped herbs and serve it to the table. As a sauce for potato casserole with minced meat, you can serve sour cream, mayonnaise or ketchup - whatever you like. 
Casserole with cheese
Ingredients:
- 700 g of potatoes
- 100 g of cheese (solid)
- A glass of fat cream
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons breadcrumbs
- Vegetable oil
- Salt and black pepper at your discretion
Preparation: We'll wash and peel the potatoes, and then cut it with thin roundworms. Cheese is passed through a small grater, turning it into a crumb. After that, the dishes for the microwave oven (preferably glass) are greased with vegetable oil and put half of the potatoes into it. Sprinkle potatoes with half grated cheese and grease half of the cream. Repeat in the same order: potatoes, cheese, cream. Now salt and pepper our casserole and send it to the microwave, where it should be prepared at a power of 600 watts for about ten minutes. After this time, take out the casserole, grease with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. We increase the capacity of the furnace to 800-850 W and bake potatoes with cheese for another five minutes.
Casserole with chicken
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3-4 pieces of medium size
- Chicken fillet - 100 or 150 g
- Onion - 1 head
- Salt and black pepper - at your discretion
- Mayonnaise or swept 2 tablespoons
- Grated cheese - 1 tablespoon
Preparation: Washed and peeled potatoes cut into not too thin slices, chop the onion or cut into rings (semirings). Potatoes mixed with onions, pour salt and pepper, add mayonnaise, mix well and put into the dishes for the microwave oven exactly half of the prepared mixture. Chicken fillet (without skins) cut into small pieces, lightly beat off and also sprinkle with salt and black ground pepper. After that, evenly lay the chicken meat on a layer of potatoes with onions. From the top we lay the second half of the potato-onion mixture, we compact (without fanaticism!) Layers and send it to the microwave, which we turn on at full capacity. We prepare the casserole for about fifteen minutes, and then take it out, sprinkle it with cheese and send it back to the oven for three or four minutes. 
Casserole with sausage
Ingredients:
- 6 pieces of potato medium size
- 200 g any sausage or ham
- Half a glass of fresh milk
- Half a glass of cream
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 clove of garlic
- Nutmeg, lemon and black pepper, salt at your discretion
Preparation: Potatoes, as expected, mine, we clean and cut with thin plates. Sausage or sausages (ham) cut into small cubes or straws and put in a bowl. Whisk the eggs with cream and milk and add to this sweep the crushed garlic and spices (nutmeg, lemon pepper, black ground pepper). Form for baking (not metal!) Grease with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Then in it alternately, in several layers we put potatoes and sausage, lubricating each layer with the egg-milk mixture. On the last layer (it is better, if it is a potato), pour out the remainders of the pouring and put the butter pieces cut into pieces. Cover the form with a lid or a plate and put in the microwave for twenty minutes, turning on the microwave at full power. When the timer is triggered, remove the cover from the form, reduce the power to the average and turn on the oven for another three minutes. Serve with fresh herbs or vegetable salad.
Casserole with vegetables
Ingredients:
- Potato
- Sweet Bulgarian pepper
- Courgettes
- Tomatoes
- Mayonnaise or sour cream
- Salt, coriander, black pepper
Preparation: We will discuss at once that the exact proportions in the recipe are not indicated, since it does not matter in principle. The only thing to consider is that potatoes should be about half of the total number of vegetables. After all, we are preparing a potato casserole. So, washed up, peeled and sliced potatoes with mayonnaise or sour cream, we add salt, pepper and coriander to it. The rest of the vegetables are also mine and cut: peppers rings, zucchini and tomatoes in circles. Keep in mind that the thinner you cut the vegetables, the safer will be your casserole. Now in a greased glass or plastic form lay out a layer of potatoes and alternately layers of vegetables. We collect a casserole from several such layers (potatoes - vegetables) or even confine ourselves to one layer if we take vegetables in small quantities. We prepare the dish with the full capacity of the microwave oven for fifteen to twenty minutes. Choose a recipe, master the microwave and cook casseroles and other interesting dishes in it. Cook with pleasure, and a pleasant appetite for you! We advise you to read:
