How to cook for a couple without a double boiler?

Dishes cooked for a pair, very useful for adults, and for children. Such food is a prerequisite recovery condition after operations during a diet or as a children's menu. Couple allows you to maintain the maximum saturation of products with vitamins and useful trace elements. You can make meals on a pair even without using a double boiler. For this you need to take a note of several methods.

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Homemade steamer: What is she?

Our ancestors often prepared a pair dishes, do not have a steamer. This was done, based on the basic principle of preparing such food - water should be used in the necessary quantities. When it is heated, it is converted into steam and affects products.

You can achieve this result, if you use the usual kitchen things: a saucepan, colander or gauze. The main thing is that the dishes are the same diameter.

The main difference of homemade steamer from the shop is that it is preferably preferably located on to watch the process. The second option allows you to leave the kitchen for the cooking period and do your affairs.

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Steamer made of pan and gauze

Having a simple saucepan and a cut of gauze, you can cook products for a pair of no worse than a special device. This follows:

1. Take a spacious saucepan and a bowl of the same diameter. Previously need to try on them to each other.
2. Pour water in a pan not more than half of the volume.
3. Treat from above on a saucepan of gauze. At first it must be folded at 2 - 3 times.

The principle of cooking is:

• i should lay out products;
• close their bowl;
• give water boil and keep on slow heat until the food cook.

It is best to choose enameled dishes or stainless steel saucepan. The larger the diameter, the greater portion you can cook.

The advantage of this method is that everything you need is always at hand. The result will be at all worse dishes prepared in the cooked. Therefore, you can cook meat, dumplings, vegetables and more.

2

Steamer with a colander

You can replace the gauze with a colander - a device for pernicating water. The principle of cooking steam food without a double boiler will be as follows:

• pour water into a saucepan;
• to install a colander;
• lay out products;
• cover the design with a saucepan.

As in the past method, the diameter of the dishes must coincide, the colander should hold firmly. To under the action of a couple, it does not deteriorate, it is best to stop the choice on a stainless material.

3

The use of foil balls

This method is also simple, but requires additional preparation.

• First, take a deep frying pan.
• Form from foil balls with a floor of a human palm.
• Put them on the bottom of the frying pan evenly.

• Now you should post products on a plate that you need to put on top of the balls.
• Pour water frying pan.
• Top construction cover with a lid.

• Now you can turn on the stove.

The peculiarity of this option is prepared steam food - it is necessary to ensure that the water does not penetrate the plate with products. It is also important that holes in the lid were. So pairs will regularly go out and the entire cooking process will find sense.

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Removable steamer: easy and accessible

If it is not possible to purchase a full-fledged double boiler, you can stop the choice on its analog - a removable design for cooking for a couple:

• It is a plate with fine holes so that through them the pairs fall into products.
• It is attached to a saucepan, and further the process is performed on the already familiar scheme described above. Such a design is inexpensive, it will greatly alleviate the efforts of culinary.
• The feature of the removable double boiler is that it has folding "petals" at the edges. This allows you to put it on the pan of any diameter.

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Rules for safe preparation of steam dishes

The process of cooking products for a pair without special equipment is doubly dangerous for health. Hot steam can easily leave burns on the skin, get into the eyes or apply other injuries. To this not happen, you need to stick to the elementary safety rules:

1. You should use tag and culinary blades to turn the products.
2. In the process of cooking, the march is heated, therefore it is also capable of burning the hand.
3. The ends of the gauze must be hidden inside, so the design will be more stable.
4. Plastic DurClags - taboo. They cannot be used at high temperatures.
5. The dishes must be comfortable and "lying" in hand.

The absence of any kitchen appliances should not stop culinary in the desire to pamper oneself and surrounding delicious food. This example is this article. Even without a double boiler, you can cook useful food without spending a lot of effort.