Cooking a meal can also mean a massive clean up. When you cooking more than one dish, often that means you end up using more than one pot or pan. Then you’ll have to wash the dishes and utensils you eat with. You can cut down on the number of pots,
You can cut down on the number of pots, pans dishes, and utensils that accumulate after cooking a meal by making your dinner in a coffee pot. Yes, you can steam, poach, boil, and grill your food in your coffee pot.
Basically, the way it works is that you use the top basket to steam vegetables and other items like broccoli or other items that would cook in the same amount of time.
You can poach or boil items, like chicken, eggs, and fish, in the pot or couscous and oatmeal. The burner works as a mini grill for things like grilled cheese or other quick items, though this method can take a bit.
Here are some full meals you can make in a coffee pot:
1.) Salmon, Couscous, and Broccoli
Step 1.) Put some chopped broccoli into the basket so it’s halfway full. Fill up the coffee maker’s reservoir with as much water as it takes. Run the coffee maker until there’s about half of the water left in the reservoir the turn your coffee maker off.
Step 2.) Dump out the water in your pot and add some couscous.
Step 3.) Mix your veggies around with a fork in the basket to make sure that everything is steaming evenly. Restart the coffee maker and let it finish its cycle.
Step 4.) Let the couscous sit in the pot for 5 minutes before you dump it into a bowl.
Step 5.) Next, put some salmon into the carafe with some soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and other seasoning depending on your preference. And put about 3 cups of water into your reservoir and run the cycle again.
Step 6.) Let your salmon sit inside the hot water until it becomes opaque and flaky. This should take about 7 minutes. Now you can take out your salmon and veggies.
2.) Pancakes, Blueberry Sauce, and Sausage
Step 1.) Mix a batch of pancake batter from a box of mix. One cup of mix will make six pancakes.
Step 2.) Cover your burner with some foil, spray it with cooking spray or put some oil on it and turn it on. Let it warm up a bit.
Step 3.) Pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto the burner and wait for it to stop bubbling. Once it stops bubbling you can flip it over for a few more minutes. Don’t expect them to get too brown or else they’ll become rubbery. You can put a lid on it to help it cook a little bit faster. If you do, make sure you wipe it off in between.
Step 4.) Pour some blueberry fruit spread from a jar into a tiny pan and mix it with some water to thin. You can add fresh blueberries if you have them. Place the pan onto your burner. You can add some more water and berries if you need to.
Step 5.) Once it’s warm you can pour it over your pancakes
Step 6.) If you have some time to kill, you can grease up your burner and place some sausage links on top of it. It may take a while for them to cook up.
3.) Oatmeal and Eggs
Fill your reservoir with water and place a bowl of oats on top of your burner. Run the machine and let enough water pour out to make your oatmeal. Cover your oatmeal with a lid or some tin foil while stirring occasionally until it gets at thick as you want. You can add brown sugar, nut, fruit, etc.
With a small frying pan, you can fry an egg by placing the pan on the burner. If you don’t have a pan you can try place a piece of tin foil over the burner and spray it with cooking spray.
4.) Lemon Chicken and Rice
Step 1.) Put about a centimeter of water in the reservoir to heat it up.
Step 2.) Then add some boneless chicken breasts or tenders into the coffee pot with one or two chunks of butter. Generously dump some lemon pepper and/or other spices and seasoning onto it or else it will taste bland.
Step 3.) Turn the machine on. You’ll only want the water to cover less than half of the chicken.
Step 4.) Cook for 15 minutes and stir the liquid around so that the butter and herbs mix. After 15 minutes, flip the chicken over and let that side cook for 15 minutes.
Step 5.) To cook your rice, follow the steps in the first recipe except substituting the couscous for rice.
5.) Vegetable Noodle Soup
Step 1.) Dice up some carrots, celery, onions, and other veggies you want in your soup. Throw this in your carafe with some pasta and vegetable broth or bouillon.
Step 2.) Fill up your reservoir with some water and let your machine run. Let it cook in the pot until your veggies and pasta become tender.
6.) Buffalo Tenders and Mashed Potatoes
Step 1.) Put some chunk of butter and hot sauce into your coffee pot and let it sit on the burner until it melts. Mix it together and set aside.
Step 2.) Rinse out your coffee pot and cook the chicken tenders according to the directions in recipe 4 (minus the herbs and spices). You can add some butter and hot sauce in with your chicken.
Step 3.) Pour your butter and hot sauce mixture that you made and set aside over your chicken tenders.
Step 4.) You can use the coffee pot’s hot water to make instant mashed potatoes or chop up small pieces of mashed potatoes and put them in your coffee pot. Let the water run into the pot and submerged your potatoes.
Step 5.) Cook your potatoes until they are soft and can be mushed. Take them out and mashed them. Serve with butter.
7.) Cinnamon Roll and Ice Cream
Step 1.) Place a piece of parchment on the bottom of a cleaned out tuna can and place the cinnamon roll into it.
Step 2.) Place on the burner and cover with a Sierra Cup or small metal bowl and cook for 3o minutes.
Step 3.) Plop some ice cream on top.
8.) Tilapia and Carrots
Step 1.) Follow the first recipe except substituting the salmon for tilapia (You’ll want to season generously) and the broccoli for carrots.
Step 2.) Reseason when you plate your meal.
9.) Egg Salad Sandwich
Step 1.) Place some eggs into your coffee pot and let the coffee machine run so they are submerged in water. Let them cook for 10 to 20 minutes.
Step 2.) When you’re eggs are hardboiled, take them out, chop up two of them and add two tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1/4 teaspoon of yellow mustard and season with salt, pepper, and paprika and place on bread.
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