How to Cook Rice in a Microwave

Steps

1. Select a deep microwave dish with a cover.
2. The ratio is what's important: 1 unit rice, 2 units water. For example: 1/2 cup of rice, add 1 cup of cold water; 1 cup of rice, add 2 cups of cold water.
3. Place in the microwave on maximum heat (IE. 900 Watts) for 10 minutes without the lid.
4. Then stir, cover with the lid and place in the microwave for an additional 3 minutes until all water is absorbed.
5. Remove from microwave and let stand a few minutes before fluffing with a fork.
6. You can add salt or butter before cooking if you wish, or cook the rice in chicken or other stock instead of water.

Tips

• Can be reheated on an appropriate setting - which means that if you are making curry and plan to serve it later, the rice can be pre-prepared.
• Adding a teaspoon of vinegar (any kind) would make it fluffier -don't worry- it won't leave any sour taste.
• A little saffron added gives it a very nice color and flavor.

Warnings

• Do NOT leave rice at room temperature for longer than 1 hour. Doing so could cause bacteria to start to form, please consider this especially if planning on reheating the rice.
• Please use a container with a lid that allows pressure to escape or do not seal lid tight.
• Be mindful that sealing containers where boiling liquids causes pressure to build can lead to lids being blown off with a fair amount of energy causing contents to spill into microwave.

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How to Cook Bacon in the Microwave

Ingredients

• Uncooked Bacon

Steps

1. Prepare a microwave-safe dish, preferably glass/Pyrex: Place several layers of paper towels over the dish.
2. Lay 4 uncooked bacon strips across the paper towels.
3. Place several layers of paper towels over the bacon.
4. Cook the bacon in the microwave approximately 3 minutes on the highest setting (time may vary by microwave and the amount of bacon cooking). For 2 slices of bacon, figure on 2 1/2 minutes total.
5. Remove from the plate and place on paper towel to absorb any bit of fat there is.
6. Allow it to sit for about 1 minute to cool. The bacon will be crisp and delicious.
7. Toss the greasy paper towels into the garbage, place the dish in the dishwasher. Enjoy crisp bacon with your eggs.

Tips

• The paper towels absorb all the bacon grease, leaving a mess-free kitchen. No dirty dishes to wash.
• Remove your bacon from the paper towels promptly or it will stick, leaving white pieces on your bacon.
• Keep a close eye on the bacon as it cooks. It heats quickly and you may need to stop the microwave before the time is up.
• If left too long will get too crisp, but still delicious.
• If you have a bacon setting on your microwave, use it.
• Practice cooking the bacon until you get the correct timing.
• If the bacon seems too chewy, you have not cooked it enough.

Warnings

• Opening the microwave to check on your bacon will let out lots of heat, so you may need to cook for longer to avoid chewy bacon.

Things You'll Need

• Microwave-safe Dish
• Paper towels
• Microwave

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How to Make Fish Curry

Steps

1. Defrost and gut the fish if it is whole, but do not throw away the head, as it can form part of the dish and is an excellent garnish in some countries. Leaving the head is a sign of your cultural respect.
2. Open the can of coconut milk and pour it into the pot. Add three teaspoons of Thai green curry paste.
3. Heat the mixture and put the bits of fish in. You don't need to cut the fish up much as it will break up in the pot.
4. Add other vegetable such as peas and runner beans.
5. Add bits of shrimp and/or squid if you like.
6. Start cooking the rice. Add a little bit of salt,ginger,garlic, paprika or saffron to give color and flavor.
7. Chop the Lemongrass and add it to the pot.
8. Leave it to stew until the fish is flaky and cooked. If the fish hasn't broken up by this time mash it up.

Tips

• If you want to use Indian style curry, get an Indian curry powder to do it. With Indian style curried fish you can make curried fish balls by squeezing the fish into balls. You'll have to add corn flour or a bit of egg white to bind the ingredients together, though.
• Thai fragrant rice is tasty but you won't be able to smell it over the curry. On the other hand, using cheap American long grain rice will ruin the texture. Go for Basmati rice instead.
• You can't actually eat most of the fish head but it does add a lot of flavor to the dish.
• Don't bother adding spices for color if you're putting squid ink in the curry.
• Lemongrass can be a bit sharp and poky in texture; to fix this, boil it in a kettle before you add it and then scrape it to bits on a chopping bored with a blunt knife. This separates the essence from the stringy bits. Add the essence to the pot.

Warnings

• If you're young, always get a parent or trustworthy grown up to do the bits that involve cutting things.
• The blunt knife, if sharpened, can be dangerous.
• Be careful of burning yourself on the stove.
• Eating too much hot food can cause throat cancer, or nasty heartburn.
• Beware of bony fish.

Things You'll Need

• Fish (frozen and preferably with head), or shrimp
• Coconut milk
• Thai curry paste or Indian curry paste
• Vegetables, like peas carrots and beans
• Rice
• Lemongrass
• Blunt Knife
• Chopping board
• Pot

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Steps

1. Buy the corn at the produce section of the food market, or in a fresh produce stand. Remove the husk.
2. Rinse with cold water, making sure that you remove all the remaining shreds from the husk. The corn should be clean and smooth. Pat dry to remove the excessive water.
3. Pour a little lime juice on the corn. Wrap in paper towel, and place into the microwave.
4. Set timer for 2 minutes for one cob. With some microwaves you might need to set for as little as 90 seconds.
5. Another way is to take each cob and wrap in saran or plastic wrap. Microwave for two minutes and it will be perfect. Use scissors to cut off the plastic wrap and skewers to hold the cob. Excellent!!
6. Alternately, cut off only the silk and the stem from the corn, and remove the outer dried leaves. Leave most of the husk on while you microwave the corn, and it will steam itself wonderfully. You'll need a clean oven mitt to peel the corn afterwards, though; it's hot!

Tips

• The corn should be crisp and not soggy tasting when you bite into it.
• Sprinkle the cooked corn with salt and rub softened butter on it if you desire.
• When the corn is sweet and not over cooked it can be eaten as it is with nothing added.
• Buy small corn holders to insert in each end, to hold while eating as the corn will be very hot.

Warnings

• Wait for a little while prior to taking a bite of the corn when it comes out of the microwave. It will be extremely hot
• Every microwave's cooking time varies.

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How to Cook Steamed Fish

Steps

1. Get a very fresh fish like bass and walleye of about 1 pound in weight. Carefully scrape off all scales and remove the gills and organs.
2. Clean the fish with water, and drain the water. Then put it in a big microwaveable glass container that has a cover.Add two teaspoons of cooking wine in the container. Evenly throw 1/2 teaspoon of salt on the surface of the fish.
3. Cut 6 thin slices of ginger and 2 pieces of green onion. Put them in the stomach of the fish.
4. Cover the container and put it into a 1000 watt microwave for 10 minutes, then take the container out.
5. Heat 3 to 4 spoon of vegetable oil in a small bowl in the microwave, making the oil very hot.
6. Pour the hot oil on the surface of the fish. Finally throw some soy sauce on the fish.
7. Enjoy the very delicious dish

Tips

• The fish has to be very fresh. In China people normally use the fish that is still swimming in the water, before starting to cook. Refrigerated fish is okey as long as it is very fresh. Never use a fish ever frozen.
• Select bass, walleye, Tilapia, grouper or other kinds of fish that have fine texture and fibre. Salmon and northern pike are not recommended.
• Eat the dish when it is very warm.
• Adding pepper and cilantro leaves will also give different style. You can be innovative.

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 Sinangag

Recipe Ingredients:
 1 cup of cooked rice
 1 small onion, sliced thinly
 2 cloves garlic, chopped into small bits
 1 small piece ginger, also chopped into small bits
 1/2 c peas
 salt and pepper to taste
 toyo (soy sauce) for colour

Cooking Instructions:
 Heat about 1-2 tbsp veg oil in a skillet or karajay (wok) until hot. Add garlic, saute until light brown, then add onions and ginger. Fry until onions are translucent, around 3-4 minutes. Add the peas, fry for around 2 minutes, then add the rice, salt and pepper. Fry for around 2-3 minutes. Add toyo to colour the rice. If you can eat eggs, then consider stirring in some scrambled egg bits into the rice before removing from heat.