Juicy steak and tender casserole: check what the Tefal OptiGrill 4 in 1 electric grill can do

OptiGrill 4 в 1 from Tefal - a gadget not only for cooking meat. It has nine automatic programs for different dishes: you can prepare a diet dinner for the whole family, defrost semi-finished products and even bake a pie. Nastya Novikova, Lifehacker’s project manager, will help you make sure of this. She loves culinary experiments and never misses an opportunity to try new recipes.

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Juicy steak

Functional OptiGrill 4 в 1 from Tefal will delight fans of delicious meat. The plates of the device are located at an angle: thanks to this solution, the steak is fried rather than boiled in its own juices. The gadget itself determines the thickness of the food with an accuracy of 1 millimeter and sets the time and temperature, and the color indicator of the degree of frying shows when it is time to remove the dish from the heat.

Nastya was the first to test the Smart Grill mode and fry a ribeye. The preparation process took several minutes: the girl set the auto program to “Steaks” and waited for the plates to warm up. I decided not to use the marinade and immediately put the meat on the grill. When he showed it was medium done, I removed it from the heat, seasoned it with salt, added freshly ground pepper and a sprig of rosemary, then wrapped the steak in foil and let it rest for a couple of minutes.

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Fish like on the grill

Barbecue mode in OptiGrill 4 в 1 allows you to cook twice as much, which means twice as fast. To do this, you need to open the grill 180°, select the temperature using the side thermostat and wait until the non-stick panels are hot enough.

Nastya tested this regime on barbecue barbecue with eggplant. The girl spied the idea for the Barbecue program in the Tefal mobile application, but replaced the chicken from the original fish recipe. I salted and peppered the fillet, added some Italian herbs and a drop of oil. The eggplant previously soaked in salted water so that they would not be bitter. After the products have been prepared, the girl laid out the skewers of the fish on one half of the grill, and the vegetables on the other.

Chicken cutlets with vegetables

Nastya works a lot and sometimes wants a full -fledged lunch to prepare quickly and with minimal intervention. When you need both a side dish and a main dish at once, the “Complex Dish” mode will help out. For its use, a special form is provided, replacing both a frying pan and oven. In it you can fry, simmer, bake. And most importantly - forget about painful cleaning: fat from products will be assembled in a separate pallet, and the plates themselves will be easy to remove and wash.

The time of testing the “Complex dish” mode fell on the day of burning deadlines, so Nastya collected dinner from semi -finished products: frozen chicken cutlets and ready -made vegetable mixture with rice.

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Чизкейк‑запеканка

IN OptiGrill 4 в 1 You can also make desserts. В качестве сладкого угощения для племянников Настя выбрала творожную запеканку. К обычному тесту она добавила цедру лимона и апельсина, как было указано в сборнике рецептов Tefal. После этого смазала форму сливочным маслом, вылила массу и поставила на ручной режим запекания. Через полчаса нежный десерт был готов.

Кстати, к грилю можно подобрать специальную насадку для бельгийских вафель. А если любите экспериментировать не только с десертами, замените нижнюю пластину OptiGrill 4 в 1 на форму для запекания. Мясные пироги, лазаньи, овощные запеканки — для режима «Духовка» в мобильном приложении Tefal есть много вдохновляющих идей.

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