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Good meals for microwave

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Tentativesteps133 · 30/05/2019 10:56

Our kitchen is being redone and we are likely to be without cooking facilities for a few weeks. We will have a microwave, toaster and kettle. Obviously there will be a lot of beans on toast, 'baked' potatoes etc but can anyone recommend meals I can cook in advance and freeze that will taste good being reheated? Personally I think anything with pasta (apart from possibly lasagne) or pastry doesn't stand up well to a microwave reheat, and am a bit iffy about reheating rice!

Thanks!

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ComtesseDeSpair · 30/05/2019 11:37

Stews, soups and curries are your friends here, I think. Also, you can buy ready-cooked meat and fish as you need it and then steam vegetables in the microwave.

ComtesseDeSpair · 30/05/2019 11:39

Also, and I acknowledge I am a savage, I cook most things in the microwave. Rice can be cooked from raw in a large basin (equal amounts rice and water, works particularly well with Thai jasmine rice), and I have no qualms about cooking pasta and boiling eggs in the microwave either.

Ricekrispie22 · 30/05/2019 11:54

Tagine. Then you could serve with couscous made just with boiled water from the kettle. This one freezes well www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/healthy/moroccan-veg-and-chickpea-tagine/
Fish pie www.justinepattison.com/recipe/fabulous-freezer-fish-pie/
Curries with microwave rice
Vegetable chilli with microwave rice
Spanish chicken stew realfood.tesco.com/recipes/spanish-chicken-stew.html
Sausage and bean casserole www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1940681/sausage-and-bean-casserole-

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