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Cooking Guide
Everyday Basics
Vegetable Soup
Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
500 g prepared vegetables of 500 ml
your choice (carrots,
turnips, celery, etc.)
finely chopped
1 onion, chopped 1
2 tablespoons butter 30 ml
2 tablespoons plain flour 30 ml
3
1
/
2
cups chicken stock 875 ml
salt and pepper
3 tablespoons parsley, chopped 45 ml
Method:
Place vegetables, except onion, in a 3-litre
casserole dish. Cover and cook on HIGH for 8 to
10 minutes. Set aside. Place onion and butter in a
4-cup (1 litre) jug and cook on HIGH for 2 to
3 minutes. Add flour to onion mixture and mix well.
Cook on HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring halfway
through cooking. Add remaining stock and onion
mixture to vegetables in casserole dish. Cook on
HIGH for 12 to 14 minutes. Season with salt and
pepper and serve, sprinkled with chopped parsley.
Baked Custard
Serves: 4 to 5
Ingredients:
425 ml milk 425 ml
3 eggs, lightly beaten 3
1
/
4
cup sugar 60 ml
1 teaspoon vanilla essence 5 ml
pinch ground nutmeg
Method:
Place milk in a 4-cup (1 litre) glass jug. Cook on
HIGH for 2 minutes. Add eggs, sugar and vanilla to
milk, whisking all the time. Strain mixture into a 20
cm round dish, sprinkle with nutmeg.
Cook on MED LOW for 14 to 16 minutes. Stand
covered for 5 minutes before serving.
Popcorn
Serves: 2 to 4
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons butter 10 ml
3 tablespoons popping corn 45 ml
Method:
Place all ingredients in a loosely twisted oven bag.
Place oven bag on an inverted microwave-safe
plate. Cook on HIGH for 2 minutes.
Remove from bag and serve sprinkled with salt.
Packet Cake
Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
1 packet cake mix (340 g)
ingredients as recommended by manufactures
Method:
Mix cake and other ingredients with a metal spoon.
DO NOT OVERHEAT. Pour into 20 cm round dish
that has been lightly greased and lined. Cook on
MEDIUM for 6 to 8 minutes. Stand and allow to cool
before removing.
Variations:
1 tablespoon (15 ml) jam added to batter before
cooking.
Add 1 cup (250 ml) sour cream to batter and half
water suggested by manufacturer.
Half a cup (125 ml) chopped nuts,
1
/
4
cup (60 ml)
brown sugar and 1 teaspoon (5 ml) cinnamon. Mix
and place on base of cake dish before cooking cake.
2 tablespoons (30 ml) honey and 30 g butter melted
in glass jug, cook on HIGH for 30 to 60 seconds.
Pour over just baked butter cake. Sprinkle with
cinnamon. Serve warm with cream or custard as a
dessert or cold with cream as a tea cake.
A quarter of a cup (60 ml) toasted muesli mixed with
1 tablespoon (15 ml) marmalade placed in the base
of the dish.
Tip: Packet cakes are best mixed by hand as the
microwaves will do the aerating.
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