The microwave oven is widely used for cooking and heating a wide variety of dishes. Using the microwave, you can even fry sunflower seeds, a favorite delicacy of many Russians.
In the microwave, you can cook ordinary roasted seeds and salted ones. True, connoisseurs of delicacies claim that their taste is slightly different from the usual. But if all the nuances are observed, the seeds will not burn and will cook very quickly.
How to fry sunflower seeds in the microwave
First of all, it is necessary to sort out and rinse the seeds in running water, and also dry them thoroughly with paper towels. Then they are poured onto a suitable dish. You need to make sure that the seeds are evenly spaced. If they are placed in a slide or scattered one by one, the seeds may either not roast or burn. A glass dish with high sides is considered an ideal dish for roasting seeds.
The cooking time depends on the type of microwave oven. Therefore, it is better to cook fried seeds in stages. After placing the dish in the oven, turn on the maximum heating mode for 1 minute. After that, the plate is taken out of the microwave, the seeds are mixed and allowed to cool slightly. The procedure is repeated until the seeds are sufficiently roasted.
In this way, the optimum roasting time can be determined. If you need to turn on the oven for 1 minute 4 times to get tasty aromatic seeds, the next time you cook, you can immediately set the timer for 3 minutes. Next, remove the seeds from the oven, mix and put on for another 1 minute.
How to microwave salted sunflower seeds
As in the previous recipe, the seeds must first be washed and cleaned of any debris. After drying the seeds, they are transferred to a glass dish with high sides, poured over with a small amount of vegetable oil and mixed. Then the seeds are sprinkled with fine salt and mixed again.
Thanks to vegetable oil, a thin film forms on the surface of sunflower fruits. It tightly binds the husks of the seeds with small grains of salt.
The microwave timer is set for 1 minute and the seeds are fried with medium heat. Taking the dish out of the oven, the seeds are mixed and tasted. If they are not fried enough, repeat the procedure.
By the way, connoisseurs of cooking seeds in a microwave oven claim that the taste of the finished product will become much better if you do not rush to remove the dish from the microwave oven after the end of frying. It is enough to hold the seeds in a closed and turned off oven for another 15 minutes.
