Philips HD9149 - Manual (Page 14)

- For the best taste, we advise you to eat your food immediately after preparing it.
- Do not pour liquids in the aroma infuser.
vegetables and fruits
- Cut off thick stems from cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.
- Steam leafy, green vegetables for the shortest possible time, because they lose colour easily.
- Do not thaw frozen vegetables before you steam them.
Meat, poultry, seafood and eggs
- Tender pieces of meat with a little fat are most suitable for steaming.
- Wash meat properly and dab it dry, so that as little juice as possible drips out.
- Always place meat, poultry, fish or eggs below other food types, to prevent dripping of juices.
- Puncture eggs before you put them in the steamer.
- Never steam frozen meat, poultry or seafood. Always let frozen meat, poultry or seafood thaw
completely before you put it in the steamer.
sweet deserts
- Add some cinnamon to desserts to enhance sweetness instead of adding more sugar.
general tips
- Specific types only: To prepare rice, you have to add water to the rice in the soup bowl. For the
amounts, see the food steaming table above.
- When you have finished cooking rice, switch off the appliance, stir the rice and leave it in the
bowl with the lid on it for 5 minutes. This gives and even better result.
- You can use the soup bowl (specific types only) to make soup or pudding, to cook rice, to
poach fish, to prepare vegetables in sauce and to cook marinated food. You can also use a
lightweight bowl that fits inside the steaming baskets to prepare these ingredients. In this case,
make sure that there is some free space around the bowl to allow proper steam circulation
inside the steamer.
- Leave some space between the pieces of food and evenly distribute the food over the bottom
of the basket.
- If the steaming basket is very full, stir the food halfway through the steaming process.
- Small amounts of food require a shorter steaming time than large amounts.
- If you only use one steaming basket, the food requires a shorter steaming time than when you
use 2 or 3 steaming baskets.
- If you use more than one steaming basket, let the food cook 5-10 minutes longer.
- Food is ready more quickly in the small steaming basket (1) than in the steaming baskets on top.
- Make sure that the food is well done before you eat. This is particularly important for meat like
pork, minced beef and chicken.
- You can add food or baskets filled with food during the steaming process. If an ingredient needs
a shorter steaming time, add it later.
- Food continues to be steamed for some time when the steamer switches to the keep-warm
mode. If the food is already very well done, remove it from the steamer when the steaming
process ends and the appliance switches to keep-warm mode.
- If the food is not done, set a longer steaming time. You may need to put some more water in
the water tank.
- The steamer can be used to warm up ready-made soup in the soup bowl (specific types only)
or a lightweight bowl that fits inside the steaming baskets. Heating up 250ml soup takes approx.
10 minutes.
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