Looking for a quick and easy way to prepare delicious, healthy meals for you and your hubby-to-be? Of course you are! In which case, no newlywed kitchen is complete without the VitaCuisine Steamer by T-fal.
You know that healthy eating is about more than what you put on your plate, it’s also about how the ingredients are prepared, and cooking with steam has been proven to preserve essential nutrients often lost through alternate cooking means. Other cooking methods, such as frying or baking require liberal use of fats and oils, while boiling results in the loss of valuable vitamins and antioxidants. Contrarily, steaming enables vegetables and meats to hold on to all their valuable components: Vitamin C, Folic Acid and Omega fats to name a few.
In addition to preparing meals chock full of nutritional goodness, the VitaCuisine Steamer is easy to use—simply set the timer, pop in your food and let things cook. Furthermore, individual stainless steel baskets allow you to cook an entire meal using a single appliance, and the patented design means you can cook fish, vegetables and dessert, while keeping all the flavours completely separate. Concerned about your steam-cooking skills? You needn’t be. Each unit comes with a free recipe book featuring 50 delicious steamed recipes. Our personal fave is the steamed pears with warm chocolate sauce – we can’t think of a better way to cap off a romantic candlelit dinner for two.
Pears with Warm Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients
- 4 large firm pears
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 125g good quality plain chocolate
- 100 ml double cream
How to
- Peel the pears, keeping them whole, rub them with the lemon and put them in a steam basket. Steam for about 20 minutes, depending on the ripeness of the pears.
- 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time, break the chocolate into small pieces and place in the rice bowl with the cream. Cover the bowl with cling film and put in the other steam basket.
- Arrange the pears on four plates. Briskly beat the chocolate and cream together with a small whisk until smooth. Pour chocolate sauce over pears. Serve as soon as possible.
The T-fal VitaCuisine Steamer retails for $129 at Canadian Tire, The Bay, Home Outfitters, Home Hardware and London Drugs. Visit t-fal.ca for more information.
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