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Recipes
Meat, Fish and Poultry
Germany
Beef Fillet in Puff Pastry
Total cooking time: approx. 36-42 minutes
Utensils:
Bowl with cover (2 l contents)
Casserole dish (approx. 26 cm long)
Ingredients
300 g
Puff pastry, frozen
1 tbsp
Butter or margarine
150 g
Marbled bacon, diced
4-5
Spring onions (150 g), sliced in rings
300 g
Mushrooms, in slices,
1 kg
Beef fillet
1 tbsp
Vegetable oil
1 tbsp
Parsley, finely chopped
1
Garlic clove, crushed
1
Egg
Salt
Pepper
1-2 tbsps
Milk
Preparation
1. Thaw the puff pastry according to package directions.
Distribute butter in the bowl, add bacon, onions and
mushrooms, cover and steam. Stir once during cooking.
4-6 Min.
900 W
Drain the fluid.
2. Wash the beef fillet, pat dry with paper towels, and rub
with oil. Place onto the high rack and bake.
Stir once during cooking.
15-17 Min.
270 W
3. Mix the parsley and garlic clove with the steamed
vegetables, season with salt and pepper.
4. With a rolling pin, roll the puff pastry into a square
(35 x 35 cm). Reserve some dough for garnish.
5. Separate the egg. Baste the egg onto the edges of the
dough, place half of the vegetable mixture on the
center of the dough.
6. Season the meat with salt and pepper and place on top
of the vegetables. Evenly distribute the rest of the
vegetable mixture on top of the meat. Fold the puff
pastry over the meat-vegetable-mix and push the edges
closed. Pierce the dough several times with a fork.
7. Rinse the casserole dish with cold water, place the puff
pastry into the casserole dish with the closed edge on
the bottom.
8. For garnish, cut out shapes from the rest of the puff
pastry and decorate.
9. Mix the egg yolk and milk, baste the dough with this
mixture and bake on the low rack in the pre-heated
microwave oven.
17-19 Min.
450 W/230° C
After cooking, let the beef fillet in puff pastry stand for
10 minutes.
China
Prawn Chili
Makes 2 servings
Total cooking time: approx. 6-8 minutes
Utensils:
Bowl with cover (1 l contents)
Bowl with cover (2 l contents)
Ingredients
6
Prawn (240 g without shell)
45 ml
White wine
2
Small leek (200 g)
1-2
Chili pepper, hot
20 g
Ginger
1 tbsp
Food starch
2 tbsps
Vegetable oil (20 g)
1
1/2
tbsps
Soy sauce (20 ml)
1 tbsp
Sugar
1 tbsp
Vinegar
Preparation
1. Wash the prawns. Remove the shell and tail. Cut the
backside and remove the veins. Cut each prawn into 2
or 3 pieces. Place one shallow cut into each piece, so
that the prawn won’t shrink. Place the prawn into a
bowl, sprinkle with white wine, cover and marinate.
2. Wash the leek and chili peppers, pat dry. Cut leek into
5 cm long pieces, cut chili peppers in half and remove
seeds. Peel the ginger and cut into slices.
3. Remove the prawn from the wine marinade, sprinkle
with food starch.
4. Put oil, leek, chili peppers and ginger slices into the
bowl, cover and heat.
approx. 2 Min.
900 W
5. Add the prawns. Season with soy sauce, sugar and
vinegar, stir, cover and cook.
4-6 Min.
900 W
After baking, let stand for about 1-2 minutes. Serve hot.
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