The microwave has brought simplicity and speed to kitchens. It makes it easier to reheat dishes, and it will take only a few minutes to stew meat or vegetable stew. Although cooking in the microwave is not difficult, it will require certain knowledge and tricks from the hostess. You will find them in our material.

What does a microwave oven do?

Most of us use the microwave to reheat meals on our plates or to make hot sandwiches. In the meantime, a good microwave oven can replace several kitchen appliances at once:

• convection oven
• grill
• oven
• even a double boiler

It can act like an ordinary oven, or its microwave-related functionality can be used in tandem with other functions.

Interesting ways to use the microwave

You can sterilize jars in it. And also disinfect kitchen sponges and cutting boards. Sponges should be soaked in water with lemon juice, and the boards should be rubbed with a slice of this citrus. In addition, in the microwave, you can dry mushrooms and crackers, melt the dough, heat spices, nuts, so that it is easier to peel them off.

What do you need to know to cook in the microwave?

• Microwaves - penetrate food from different sides, but to a depth of no more than 2 cm. Therefore, for a microwave, it is better to cut into pieces that are not too large.
• If you fry / bake in microwave mode, then the most large pieces place on the edge of the dish to get more microwaves and bake better.
• When preparing the soup, it is advisable to cover it with a lid, but always with a steam outlet. If you put a glass tube in the liquid, then it will boil less.
• The parts at the edges of the plate get more energy, and fewer microwaves get to the middle. Therefore, the food being cooked must be stirred, if you are baking the legs or wings, or any other similar pieces, they must be swapped and turned over.
• It is better to salt meat and fish at the very end of cooking, so they will retain their juiciness.
• When cooking scrambled eggs, you need to take only very fresh eggs and prick the yolks with a toothpick. Then they will not spread.
• The dough in the microwave is higher than in a conventional oven. Therefore, the form will be needed with high sides, and you only need to fill it halfway.
• To prevent the baked goods from burning, you need to add more flour to the dough.
• To prevent the dishes from drying out during heating, they must be covered with a film or a special dome lid.

What is the danger of a microwave oven?

The most popular stereotype about microwave ovens - they are a source of radiation - fundamentally does not correspond to reality, ”the head of the laboratory of radiobiology and hygiene of non-ionizing radiation at the FMBC named after A.I. Burnazyan FMBA of Russia, candidate of biological sciences Oleg Grigoriev.

What utensils should I use for the microwave?

Microwave ovenware should be transparent to microwaves, not contain metals, not conduct electric current, and be heat-resistant.

Any cookware can be pre-tested for microwave use. To do this, you need to take an ordinary faceted glass (or any thick-walled glass made of glass, but without a picture), pour water into it, put it in the tested dishes, and the dishes in the microwave. Turn on at maximum power for 1 minute. When you open the oven, the water in the glass should be hot, and the dishes in which the glass was standing should not heat up. If it gets hot, it means that it is not suitable for use in the microwave.

How to cook meat in the microwave?

When cooking meat in microwave oven it must be covered with a lid to preserve its juiciness and protect it from drying out. Note that meat at room temperature and with fat will cook faster than lean and cold meats. Salt and spices should only be added at the end. Poultry is perfect for cooking in a microwave oven - the meat is juicy, tender, in its own juice.

Fried eggs in the microwave

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Put butter in a dish for scrambled eggs, heat, distribute along the bottom and walls. Break the eggs, pierce the yolks with a toothpick. Put in the oven for a minute at full power.

Lentil soup for microwave

Microwave Lentil Soup Photo: Shutterstock.com

1 cup dry lentils

2 glasses of water

100 g loin

2 carrots

6-8 potatoes

2 cups broth

4 sausages

1 onion

Salt and pepper

Step 1. Soak lentils in a glass of water for 8 hours.

Step 2. Finely chop the onion, loin, put in a microwave-safe saucepan.

Step 3. Cover and simmer for 3 minutes at maximum power.

Step 4. Add lentils with water, cook for another 10-12 minutes.

Step 5. Put not coarsely chopped potatoes and carrots into the soup. Cook for another 10 minutes

Step 6. Cut the sausages and cook for another 10 minutes. After cooking, season with salt and pepper.

Shrimps in white wine

400 g wild shrimp

¼ glasses of dry white wine

Salt and pepper

Step 1 Put the shrimps in one layer, pour over the wine and simmer under the lid for a maximum of 2-3 minutes.

Step 2. Stir, season with salt and simmer for another 3 minutes.

The microwave is so firmly established in everyday life that it is almost impossible to imagine a modern kitchen without this unit. But most housewives do not fully use the functions of this miracle stove, limiting themselves only to warming up. Meanwhile, in it you can bake, cook, and even cook delicious meat dishes.

Almost endless possibilities

Meat in the microwave can be cooked in different ways: bake it on the grill using additional equipment, make it in pots, form rolls ... There are many ways.

There are only two drawbacks compared to the traditional gas cooking method: economic costs and a limited amount of food. But the dish turns out to be very tender and tasty, and you have to spend much less time on cooking.

Simple recipes for delicious dishes

The traditional recipe is French meat. In the microwave, this dish turns out to be unusually fragrant.

Ingredients:

• pork - 300-500 g;
• potatoes - 2-3 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• mayonnaise;
• hard cheese - 50 g;
• garlic - 1-2 teeth;
• butter.

Cooking method:

1. The meat is cut into thin small pieces, it is better to additionally beat it off.
2. A glass or ceramic mold is greased with butter.
3. The first layer is laid out with meat.
4. On it - onion, chopped into half rings, garlic, all poured with mayonnaise.
5. Next is a layer of potatoes.
6. A little more mayonnaise is poured onto the potatoes and - the final accord - grated cheese.
7. Cook potatoes with meat in the microwave for 30 minutes.
8. The stove turns on at full power.

You can cook meat in pots in the microwave like this.

Ingredients:

• chicken meat - 150 g;
• champignons - 5 pcs.;
• potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• garlic - 2 teeth;
• onion - 1 large.

Additional components: salt, meat broth, pepper, sour cream.

Cooking method:

1. Everything is cut so that you don't have to think about it later: meat in rectangles, mushrooms - into 4 pieces, potatoes - into cubes, onions - in half rings.
2. Garlic is grated or crushed.
3. Everything is laid out in the pot in the following order: a little bit of garlic, meat, onions, mushrooms, potato cubes, and more garlic.
4. Spices are poured, broth is poured - only so that 3 more fingers remain to the top - otherwise everything will splash out during cooking, to the very top - a little sour cream or a piece of butter.
5. It is better to cover the pot with wax paper - if you use the lid, the cooking time will increase.
6. Cooking is required on high level power - from 850 W for 15 minutes. The recipe is good because you don't need to fry anything beforehand.

You don't have to stick to this particular recipe. Cooking in pots is carried out according to this principle, but you can experiment with the contents.

There is no easier recipe than grilling meat in the microwave. The whole process takes 12 minutes!

The grill rack is installed in the microwave. Pieces of meat are laid out on it - better than pork, it is more tender.

The meat must first be beaten off and pickled in spices. If you want to achieve a natural taste, you do not need to pickle.

Set the mode at full power, hold for 6 minutes. Then you need to turn the meat over, salt the pieces, and wait another 6 minutes. Everything! The dish is ready!

More complex dishes

How not just to bake meat in the microwave, but to make real boiled pork from it?

Ingredients:

• pork tenderloin - with a layer of fat - about 1 kg;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• raisins - 2 teaspoons - can be replaced with chopped prunes;
• water - 400 ml, hot, almost boiling water.

Spices: salt, black pepper and allspice, Bay leaf... For frying, you need to prepare sunflower oil.

Each microwave oven model has a different power rating. The cooking time is adjusted individually. To do this, after 15 minutes of being in the oven for the dish, they cut it and see how much more is needed to bring it to readiness.

For example: in a stove with a power of 1000 W, the boiled pork reached its condition in 46 minutes.

Cooking method:

1. The meat is washed, dried with a paper towel, cut into slices - not thin;
2. In each piece, cuts are made, raisins or prunes, garlic are put in them. Some housewives roll up rolls;
3. Rub the pieces with pepper and salt, and leave to marinate for 40-60 minutes;
4. When the meat is saturated enough, it is fried in a pan for a few minutes on each side on a preheated sunflower oil... Pork pork will be more beautiful with a crispy crust;
5. A layer of bay leaf is placed on the bottom in a special pan for the microwave;
6. Meat is laid on a layer of laurel, poured with boiling water.

The lid is closed, the pan is placed in the oven and turned on at full power, counting on half the time - about 20-25 minutes. Turn meat during cooking. Any garnish for boiled pork can be served.

How to cook meat - veal - in the microwave?

Veal has no streaks of fat, will it work? The recipe is very delicious veal baked with tomatoes.

Ingredients:

• veal - about half a kg;
• tomatoes - 250 g;
• ghee - about 50 g.

Different types of peppers, aromatic herbs, salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

When cooking meat in the microwave, it is worth considering the model of the stove, whether it is equipped with a grill, its capacity and the available functions. But whatever the oven, you can always find suitable recipe to prepare a delicious meal.

On October 8, 1945, American engineer Percy Spencer patented the microwave oven. From that moment on, a different life began in the kitchens of all countries. With the microwave, the hostesses felt the simplicity and speed of cooking any dish. With this technique, it is easier to reheat dishes, defrost and cook meat, fish, make delicious vegetable stew- any of these processes takes only a few minutes. Good microwave replaces several kitchen appliances at once: a convection oven, a grill, an oven, a double boiler. Although cooking in the microwave is not difficult, it requires certain knowledge from the culinary specialist and adherence to a number of mandatory rules. For example, when cooking meat in the microwave, it must be covered with a lid to ensure the preservation of juiciness. It is also important to remember that meat at room temperature, as well as meat with a layer of fat, cooks faster than lean and cold meat.

Meat is cooked in the microwave quickly, and this is the advantage of this cooking method. Great potatoes with meat in the microwave, French meat in the microwave, meat in pots in the microwave.

But that's not all, you can properly defrost a piece of meat in the microwave. How to defrost meat in the microwave while preserving its aroma and juiciness? You need to place a piece of meat in a container, always with a lid, and put it in the microwave for 3 minutes on defrosting mode. Then the meat must be turned over and put back for 3 minutes. The total time depends on the size of the piece - about 15 to 30 minutes.

Any meat in the microwave turns out great, its recipes are varied, it is worth trying different ones. It turns out different in taste and in outward appearance meat dishes in the microwave, recipes with photos will help you choose the option you like.

We will give you a few general advice how to cook meat in the microwave:

Microwaved food. incl. and pieces of meat, need to be mixed, swapped and turned over More energy is received by pieces at the edges of the bowl;

It is better to salt the meat at the very end of the cooking process, so they will retain their juiciness;

You do not need to try to do something with your hands inside the oven when it is turned on;

The locking system is obligatory: the oven should not be switched on with the door open;

For some dishes in which the meat must be pre-fried, you can use special utensils for frying in the microwave or fry the meat separately in oil on the stove;

Large pieces of meat need to be checked several times for readiness, you can measure the temperature using a conventional oven thermometer, which should be removed from the oven immediately after measuring the temperature;

Meat cooked in a special dish for frying in microwave ovens will turn out to be much tastier, since meat juice is correctly and evenly distributed inside it;

If the fat is evenly distributed around the meat, it will also help to heat the food evenly. A large accumulation of fat, on the contrary, will slow down cooking, since they more actively absorb energy, which would be useful when heating meat;

They are good for the distribution of heat and bone, so meat on the bone will cook faster.

You can cook meat in the microwave in different ways: bake, fry, grill, stew and boil. For some reason, chicken is most often cooked in a microwave oven (look), although pork, beef, and lamb are cooked no worse, just like minced meat dishes, for example, or meatballs. Therefore, this time we will cook delicious meat (veal) in the microwave.

Veal is the meat of a calf, that is, a young cow. It is soft, tender, tasty and cooks much faster than beef. Which is just right for cooking in the MVP.

How to cook meat in the microwave

If you cook meat or fish at full power, pour sauce or oil over the food to get a beautiful color.

For a crisp and appetizing color, grill or skillet the meat before cooking in the oven.

Fat layers inside the meat speed up the cooking process. Fat dripping into the dish around the meat slows down the cooking process. The bones do not affect the cooking speed. Determine the readiness of the meat with a thin stick, clear juice should flow.

And now the recipe hearty dish which is quite suitable for family dinner or lunch. In half an hour you will cook tender veal brisket with potatoes in sour cream.

Products:

• veal brisket - 500 g;
• potatoes - 6-8;
• onion - 2;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• spices - freshly ground black allspice, caraway seeds, salt.

Cooking meat in the microwave

Cut the brisket into small pieces, rinse well and place in a microwave safe pot. Turn on for 5 minutes at full power.

At this time, peel, wash and cut the onion into thin half rings. Take out the pan of meat, put the chopped onion and flatten so that it covers all the meat. Place in the oven and heat for 5 minutes.

During this time, cook the potatoes - peel, wash and cut into small slices. Place on top of the onion.

Peel the garlic and squeeze it into a small bowl with water, stir, add salt and pepper. Pour into a saucepan. If there is not enough water (potatoes should be covered), top up. After placing in the microwave, cook under the lid for 15 minutes at full power.

Put the sour cream in a small bowl, sprinkle with caraway seeds (to taste) and stir. Pour the sour cream over the finished veal and cook for another 2-3 minutes under the lid.

Let it brew, without removing it from the oven, for about 7 minutes. Serve, sprinkle with freshly chopped herbs.

It is good to serve salad with such a dish. fresh vegetables tucked in vegetable oil... Or salted (pickled) vegetables.