PRO TIPS FOR USING YOUR BAMBOO STEAMER EVEN BETTER
- Cooking professionals advise that when you place your steamer in hot water, avoid letting the bottom part touch the sides of the skillet so that it doesn’t burn.
- You can substitute Napa cabbage or iceberg lettuce to line your steamer.
- For more unique flavors, you can put tea leaves in the boiling water to add a new twist to your steamed dishes. Other flavored water alternatives are sake, vegetable broth, wine, or beer.
- Do not clean your bamboo steamer in the dishwasher ? its best cleaned with hot water, and vinegar is a natural safe way to disinfect and deodorize it. make sure to air dry steamers after every use.
- Put food that takes longer to cook at the bottom basket, and place food that cooks easily
on the top one.
- Most fish and chicken will take 12 minutes to cook, depending on the cut, while vegetables will just take less than five minutes.
- Make sure that when you steam fish, you don’t over steam and leave the fish to dry.