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Microwave Recipes

A variety of microwave main dish and side dish recipes, dessert recipes, and microwave candy and fudge recipes.

Easy Sesame Pecan Chicken Recipe - Microwave Chicken Recipe With Pecans and...

Asian flavors, pecans, sesame seeds, and chicken are among the ingredients in this tasty microwave chicken recipe. Serve this sesame chicken over hot boiled rice or grits.

Microwave Chicken With Tomatoes - Chicken Breast Recipe, Microwave

Chicken with tomatoes, bell pepper, garlic, basil, and other seasonings, cooked in the microwave. A microwave chicken recipe with tomatoes and chicken breasts.

Microwave Zucchini Bread

This zucchini bread is cooked in the microwave. Zucchini bread recipe, shared by Becky.

Pork Chops and Rice - Microwave Oven Recipe

This is a recipe for pork chops with raisins, onion, brown sugar and rice, cooked in the microwave.

Beef-Stuffed Zucchini

With zucchini, ground beef, onion, green pepper, tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese.

Candy's Microwave Peanut Brittle

A favorite from Candy, with very good and detailed instructions.

Chicken Wild Rice Casserole

Made with cooked chicken, long grain and wild rice, almonds, mushrooms, and other ingredients.

Chocolate Turtles

Made with chocolate chips, caramels, pecan halves, butter, and other ingredients.

Cyndi's Microwave Peanut Brittle

Thanks to Cyndi for sharing this peanut brittle recipe.

Dawn's Chicken Parmesan

Microwave version of a great favorite.

Easy Peanut Butter Brownie Dessert Cups

This microwave chocolate dessert recipe is made with peanut butter, cocoa, marshmallows, and chocolate chips. Brownie dessert with peanut butter baked in custard cups.

Fold-Over Tortilla Casserole

With cream cheese, tortillas, ground beef, stewed tomatoes, enchilada sauce, and other ingredients.

Fresh Peach Cobbler with Dumplings

Made with fresh peaches and spiced dumpling batter. From a Louisiana microwave cookbook.

Frosted Microwave Pumpkin Bars

Tasty frosted bars are made with canned pumpkin and spices, along with a cream cheese frosting.

Fudge Pie

A fudge brownie pie, with pecans or walnuts, cooked in the microwave.

Ham and Yam Louisiane

Canned sweet potatoes are cooked with chopped ham and raisins.

Haystacks

Microwave candy with chow mein noodles and butterscotch chips, along with peanuts and peanut butter.

How to Cook Asparagus

Instructions include directions for microwave oven and other methods.

How to Squeeze More Juice from Lemons

Use your microwave to help you get more juice from lemons.

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

Bake or microwave these delicious sandwiches.

Lazy Person's Complete Breakfast

A quick and easy breakfast casserole, cooked in the microwave oven.

Meatloaf in Minutes

This meatloaf is a snap to bake in the microwave.

Meatloaf Sandwiches

Tasty meatloaf sandwiches, heated in the microwave oven, from MIKKIBAUM.

Microwave Baked Apple

Baked apple with cinnamon candies, cooked in microwave oven. Easy baked apple recipe.

Microwave Caramel Corn

This recipe was shared on our forum.

Microwave Chicken and Rice

With rice, mushrooms, cream of chicken soup, chicken, and other ingredients. A very easy chicken recipe for the microwave.

Microwave Corn Pudding

A recipe for corn puddin, with Mexican-style corn, cornmeal, butter, eggs, and other ingredients.

Microwave Fudge

Chocolate fudge made in the microwave, with cocoa, confectioners' sugar, pecans, milk, butter, and flavoring.

Microwave Peanut Butter Cups

An easy candy recipe, made in foil cups for gift giving.

Microwave Pumpkin Pie

This easy no-crust pumpkin pie is whipped up in the blender then cooked in a pie plate.

Microwave Shrimp Barbecue

Shrimp is cooked with butter, olive oil, a little lemon, and several seasonings.

Microwave Zucchini Bread

This recipe was shared by Becky. Ingredients include zucchini, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and other ingredients.

Quick and Easy Nachos

Nachos with cheese made in the microwave oven. Easy nacho recipe with jalapeno peppers, cheese, and taco sauce.

Texas Squash Casserole

Made with summer squash or zucchini, onions, green chiles, cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips.

Turkey and Corn Fajitas

Made with cooked shredded turkey, flour tortillas, corn, onion, green pepper, salsa, and seasonings.

Cooking for One

This site offers helpful tips on timing, equipment and more, plus a sampling of recipes from the book, "Microwave Cooking for One." From Tracy Grant, the author's daughter.

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