Recipes

Here are some recipes from our microwave coookery course.

CHILLI CON CARNE

4oz minced beef 1 small onion 3 mushrooms 1/4 pepper 1/2 tin red kidney beans 1/2 tin chopped tomatoes 1 dessertspoon margarine garlic (optional) 1 tablespoon cream (optional)

What to do and cook

1. Put mince on plate or flat dish and cook for 2 minutes,stir and cook for a further minute

2. Chop onion,mushroom,and pepper(garlic).

3. Put marg in dish and heat for 45 seconds.

4. Add 0nion,mushroom and pepper(garlic)to marg and cook for 2 minutes or until soft.

5. Add mince to onion mixture and stir in chilli powder.

6. Cook for 1 minute.

7. Stir in beans and tomato and heat thoroughly for 4 minutes,stirring well.

8. Cover and leave to stand for 5 minutes.

9. Stir in cream.

10 Serve with rice,jacket potato or bread.

BAKED APPLES

You need(for 1 person) 1 medium cooking apple, 1 dessertspoon brown sugar, 1 dessertspoon butter, 1 dessertspoon mincemeat or dried mixed fruit, 2 dessertspoons water.

METHOD:

1 Wash and core the apple. 2 Make a slit all round the apple. 3 Mix fruit/mincemeat with sugar and butter. 4 Put apple in dish and fill the cntre of the apple with the fruit mixture.. 5 Pour water around apple and cook for about 3 minutes.

Serve with syrup. custard or cream.

BAKED JAM PUDDING

BAKED JAM PUDDING

TWO PORTIONS

What you need: 11/2 tablespoons of jam 6 tablesoons of self raising flour 3 tablespoons of matgarine 3 tablespoons of caster sugar Grated peel of half a lemon 1 EGG 1.1/2tablespoons milk

Method

1. Grease a large bowl with a little butter, spread jam over bottom of the bowl.

2. In another bowl sift flour and rub in margarine finely. Add sugar and lemon peel.

3.Add egg and milk to make a soft batter; DO NOT BEAT THE BATTER. 4.When batter is smooth,pour over jam. 5 Cook uncovered for 3.1/2 minutes or until well raised, turning twice,at this stage the top should look slightly wet.

1. Leave to rest for 4 minutes before serving.