Using a steam oven correctly
Cooking with steam has long been an issue, but steam is only used to cook food. In the steam oven it is different, here the food is cooked with steam and baked until crispy brown.
Advantages in the steam oven
You can steam in it as normal, similar to a pressure cooker. Unlike cooking, the food retains its natural color and the natural taste is not watered down. Particularly sensitive foods that become slightly mushy in the pressure cooker are ideal to prepare in the steam oven.
- You can prepare a whole lunch together, cooking the individual foods separately without the risk of a mixture of flavors. It is also no problem to take into account different cooking times with the steam oven.
- In the steam oven you usually have a combination of hot air and steaming and baking. This is particularly good for food that dries out easily during normal baking, such as bread or rolls, but also for roast beef, which stays nice and juicy. Pizza from the steam oven is wonderfully juicy and crispy at the same time.
- With the regeneration level you can warm up and defrost food, which takes a little longer than the microwave, but is gentler and the food tastes better, not warmed up, but freshly prepared.
Of course, you can also bake in it in the normal and conventional way.
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Examples of recipes from the steamer
- Do you love sweet desserts? Then try pears in chocolate sauce. Put the peeled, halved and pitted pears in the steam oven and add a bowl with a mixture of 100 g cream and 50 g chopped chocolate. After 7-8 minutes at 100 ° you will have steamed pears and for the sauce all you have to do is stir the mixture of cream and chocolate.
- You can also prepare filled dumplings such as manti in the steam oven. Steamed fish or vegetables are also always successful in the steam oven. Make a braid from 3 strips of fish fillet from different fish, sprinkle them with spices and cook the fish braid in the steam oven at 100 ° for 10-15 minutes. You will be marveled at.
- Bake your own bread. Mix a bread dough, for example for a black bread, which gets a nice crust in the steam oven and does not dry out like in conventional ovens. Simply 1/2 liter of water or buttermilk, yeast per 250 g of crushed wheat, wheat flour with a total of 250 g Mix the rye meal and seeds (for example from sunflowers) and some turnip tops and salt add. Bake the bread in a loaf pan in a steam oven at 150 ° with steam for approx. one and three quarters of an hour. To prevent the bread from drying out, wrap it in aluminum foil and let it cool down.
- Roast a roast beef as usual, only instead of sticking it in a roasting tube or constantly basting it, prepare it in the steam oven.
You can find many good recipes on the websites of the manufacturers of steam ovens. Many recipes are difficult or impossible to achieve in any other way.
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