Lumiere blog will be running a series of cooking tips, and here is one from me. Are you juggling work and home? Tend to get busy and burn food? Are you on a tight budget, and wanting to make cost effective meals with little electricity and great taste? I purchased a pressure cooker a good while ago and have found to be invaluable. The pressure cooker has been designed for use in a microwave.
I put rice and vegetables with some spices in the pressure cooker, and a short while later the meal is beautifully done; the rice soft, fluffy and perfectly cooked every time. There are many other recipes you can make with the cooker. When you've cooked your meal, serve it with a tasty salad such as lettuce, quartered cherry tomatoes, olives and feta cheese with a no fat vinaigrette dressing and you will be a winner every time. The cooker is called the Micromaster New Microwave Pressure Cooker. I wouldn't go anywhere without one now. It is made of a plastic type substance, with lockable handles. Just be careful with the steam vents at the top of the pressure cooker. Also be careful when you open up the lid afterwards, as steam can escape and you don't want to scald your hands.
If you are in a shanty town area or squatter camp, if you have electricity you will be fine. Unfortunately if you have no electricity, then this is not the item for you. However, if you have a generator you'll be ok. There are loads of recipes you can use with this great cooker, using rice, pasta, vegetables. Apples stew beautifully in the cooker.
We'll be making a number of tried and tested recipes available from volunteers of Lumiere. They are busy in their kitchens now, testing the recipes before we make each one available. The criteria are; the recipes need to be cheap, tasty, and nutritious. Watch this space,...!
If you are interested in finding out more about the Micromaster, here is the info
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MICROMASTER-MICROWAVE-PRESSURE-COOKER/dp/B00193AMF0
*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette. Please feel free to use copyright free for any worthy purpose
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