Soups And Starters - Sharp R-65ST Operation Manual With Cookbook

R-65ST English 03/02/2005
ADAPTING RECIPES FOR THE
MICROWAVE OVEN
If you would like to adapt your favourite recipes for the
microwave, you should take note of the following:
Shorten cooking times by a third to a half. Follow the
example of the recipes in this cookery book. Foods
which have a high moisture content such as meat, fish,
poultry, vegetables, fruit, stews and soups can be
prepared in your microwave without any difficulty.
Foods which have little moisture, such as platters of
food, should have the surface moistened prior to
heating or cooking.
The amount of liquid to be added to raw foods, which
are to be braised, should be reduced to about two
thirds of the quantity in the original recipe.
If necessary, add more liquid during cooking.
The amount of fat to be added can be reduced
considerably. A small amount of butter, margarine or
Spain
CREAM OF AVOCADO SOUP
Sopa de aguacates
Total cooking time: approx. 10-12 minutes
Utensils: Bowl with lid (2 Iitre capacity)
Ingredients
3 avocados (600g of flesh)
a little lemon juice
700ml meat stock
70ml cream
salt & pepper
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oil is sufficient to flavour food. For this reason your
microwave is excellent for preparing low-fat foods as
part of a diet.
HOW TO USE THE RECIPES
● All the recipes in this cooker y book are
calculated on the basis of 4 servings - unless
otherwise stated.
● Recommendations relating to suitable utensils
and the total cooking times are given at the
beginning of every recipe.
● As a rule the quantities shown are assumed to
be wholly consumable, unless specifically
indicated otherwise.
●
When eggs are given in the recipes they are
assumed to have weight of approx. 55 g
(medium).

SOUPS AND STARTERS

Procedure
1. Peel the soft, ripe avocados, remove stone, cut
into small pieces and puree with a mixer or a
mixing attachment on a hand mixer. Reserve two
thin slivers per portion for decoration and sprinkle
with lemon juice.
2. Put the meat stock, avocados and the cream in a
dish, season with salt and pepper and cook with
lid on. Stir once during cooking.
10-12 min. 100 P
3. Mix soup until creamy and decorate with the
remaining avocado slivers. Allow to stand for 5
minutes after cooking.