Very often young housewives who are looking afterfigure and strive for healthy eating, wonder what can be cooked with steam and how to make such dishes tasty. Well, using steam correctly, you can cook almost any product: meat, fish, vegetables. Steamed dumplings have an amazing taste - they are much more tender than those cooked in the traditional way. What effect do we achieve if we cook with steam? Firstly, we get healthy food, since the dishes are cooked without fat, while preserving their natural taste. Secondly, if we steam, for example, meat or fish, these products remain very juicy. With conventional cooking, the juice goes into the broth, and the meat or fish, losing their extractive substances, become tasteless. We will tell you about the basic techniques that you need to know if we cook with steam. And we will also give some practical advice on how to properly cook with steam without a steamer. Knowing these subtleties, you can come up with your own recipes for steamed dishes. It must be said that even people with very modest culinary knowledge can cook with steam. So for novice housewives, the recipes for such dishes will be a good start for further comprehension of the secrets of good cooking. Let us stipulate right away that all the recipes given below can be used both for cooking in a modern steamer and in a regular saucepan, into which a so-called steam basket or a regular sieve is inserted. It is important that the product does not come into contact with water (in a steamer, this is provided by default), the saucepan should be tightly closed, and the products are placed only after the water begins to boil. Following these simple rules, you will learn how to cook with steam correctly.
Steam cod with Dutch sauce
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of fish
- salt, pepper, spices
For the sauce:
- 3 raw yolks
- 150 grams of butter
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- salt pepper
Method of preparation:Sprinkle the prepared fish with salt, pepper and spices of your choice, sprinkle with lemon juice and place in a steamer. Cook for 7-10 minutes. Classic Dutch sauce, properly steamed, is ideal for this dish. How to prepare the sauce: Mix the yolks, water, salt and pepper in a bowl, place it all in a steam bath and whisk constantly, adding a small piece of butter at a time. Add the next piece after the previous one has completely combined with the yolk mass. The result should be a thick and smooth buttery sauce. Finally, add lemon juice to taste and whisk well again. Dutch sauce goes well with low-fat fish, steamed, as well as with vegetables. Vegetables cooked in a steamer are very tasty and at the same time have a very attractive appearance. The thing is that with regular heat treatment (boiling or frying, it doesn't matter) they lose their color. This doesn't happen when using steam. An assortment of carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and spinach looks very nice.
Vegetable platter for a couple
(serve with fish and hollandaise sauce) Ingredients:
- 100 grams of carrot
- 100 grams of broccoli
- 100 grams of cauliflower
- 100 grams of spinach
Method of preparation: Wash and peel the vegetables.Cut the carrots, separate the cabbage into florets, remove the coarse stems from the spinach. Place the vegetables in a steamer (except for the spinach - we put it in literally a minute before the end of cooking) and cook for 5-7 minutes. Place the vegetables and steamed fish on a flat plate and pour the Hollandaise sauce over everything. Any fish can be cooked in the above-described way. But there are other recipes for cooking fish in a steamer, which we would also like to share with you. The resulting dishes have completely different taste properties.
Fish on a steam bath
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of fish fillets
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- a teaspoon of grated ginger
- teaspoon curry
- salt pepper
- 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
Method of preparation:Wash the fish, dry it, mix it with ginger, soy sauce, curry, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Place everything in a bowl and put it in a steam bath. Cook with the lid tightly closed for 7-10 minutes. You get very tender fish in a spicy clear broth. Serve with crumbly rice.
Steam chicken cutlets
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of chicken minced meat
- 1 egg
- 150 grams of white bread
- a glass of milk
- 1 onion
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- salt, pepper, nutmeg
Method of preparation: Soak the bread in milk.Finely chop the onion and sauté in olive oil. Mix the minced meat with the fried onion, squeezed bread and egg, add salt, pepper, nutmeg and beat everything well. Divide the resulting mass into small cutlets and place in a steamer. Cook for 7-10 minutes. For those who like dietary recipes, we recommend cooking pork, beef and fish cutlets using this principle. The recipes for dishes cooked in a steamer that we have offered to your attention can be perceived as basic and, based on them, come up with your own dietary dishes. Enjoy your meal! We recommend reading:
