Closed restaurants and reduced activities due to the coronavirus: this is the ideal time to combine business with pleasure by cooking, a way to kill time in confinement while eating something other than pasta. Problem: not everyone is equipped like a star, far from it. But thanks to the advice of the chef Yves Camdeborde, columnist for La Table des bons vivant , it is possible to prepare good meals without an oven, and even without an electric hob.
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Mussels with kettle
First ally: the kettle. "She has lots of secrets," enthuses Yves Camdeborde. "You take your kettle, you put mussels in it, thyme, bay leaf, a little shallot and chives, a glass of white wine, a glass of water," he lists. "We heat, and when it's hot, it's ready!"
Another idea: put in a bowl a cube of chicken broth, a broken egg, a little finely chopped cive, grated carrots, a little radish, a few slices of beef, a small dash of olive oil . Then, "boil water and pour over it, at the height, as for a soup," recommends the chef. "Cover with a plate, let stand for 5 minutes", and you get a beef broth with a soft egg.
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Eggs or banana cooked in an iron
If you don't have hotplates, maybe you have an iron. In this case - with all the necessary precautions - it should be placed in a bowl covered with a cloth, with the sole towards you. "You light it, you cover it with a sheet of aluminum foil, and by magic you have a baking sheet," laughs Yves Camdeborde. "We can cook an egg, a piece of fish, zucchini ..."
The iron can also replace the oven for a gourmet banana dessert: "You take a banana, you split it in half and inside you put pieces of chocolate. You roll in tightly closed baking paper, and you lay on a cutting board or a plate. " Then we go back, "being careful not to burn the paper".
A clafoutis in the pan
Last tip, always to replace the oven: the pan-fried cake! In an adhesive pan just pasted in butter, it is for example childish to make a clafoutis, with a classic cake machine and small pieces of fruit, cooked 25 to 30 minutes on very low heat, with a lid and monitoring regularly. All that's left to do is taste !