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Microwave cooking: artichokes


Hello and good start to the week, and yesterday
'started the race for Christmas presents, all the shops and all the people with their noses glued to the windows to choose to do the purchase in the coming weeks.
Sara 'a Christmas full of gifts do you think? I hope so, but honestly I think it will be 'somewhat' poor. We will see the results in January.
Today I continue with the column dedicated to the microwave oven, I have to fulfill the requests in arrears.
Mario (name invented for privacy) asked me if the microwave oven you can 'cook any type of vegetable, well then you Mario, you can' cook almost anything and I do not think you are referring too all'insalata (at least I hope).
Today's recipe is the preparation of the sauce with the microwave and will be 'performed entirely in the microwave.

Serves 4

10 artichokes, cleaned and cut in half 'in the longitudinal direction (keep them in water and lemon juice to prevent blackening)

40 grams butter 40 grams of rice flour (you can use regular flour, I also thought about the people celiac disease in making this recipe)
1 / 2 cups milk
nutmeg grated Parmesan or Grana Padano


extra virgin olive oil salt and pepper

After cleaning the artichokes for good, we put them in the container for steaming in the microwave , for which we pay 1 / 2 liter of water in the container, put the basket, put the artichokes and cover.
We initiate the steam function (display "boil") and set the cooking time that will 'of 4 minutes, press "START" and await the end of cooking.
Remove the artichokes and let them still in the container for 2 minutes.
now prepared white sauce with the micro will have 'a particular process, so read carefully.
Put the butter in a Pyrex glass baking dish, put in the microwave and we start the micro function to 750W for 1 minute, the result will be 'to have melted butter.
We remove the pan from the oven, put the flour (rice or normal) and with a whisk to amalgamate the two ingredients, add milk, and always working with a whisk, mix the ingredients.
We put the pan in the oven and we start the microwave at 750W for 5 minutes, remove the pan and work well with a whisk, put back in the oven as above for another 2 minutes, remove and work well with a whisk, put back in the oven as above for 1 minute, remove and work well with a whisk (and you'll see that 'already' thickened ), we repeat the last step (ie 'even 1 minute), and we take off again with the whip.
At this point, and the sauce is' thickened and we can add the salt and nutmeg.
With the procedure described, your sauce will not have 'lumps of flour. Let us now
a ceramic baking dish and put a tablespoon of oil spread over the bottom with your fingers, put the artichokes, pour the sauce over artichokes, put plenty of Grana Padano or Parmesan cheese on the surface, mettiamo la pirofila sotto al "GRILL" per 15 minuti o fino a quando la superfice sara' gratinata.

Buon appetito