Kiss many of your kitchen appliances goodbye with a multicooker that does it all

Lidl’s middle aisle is famous for providing wonderful additions to our life at incredible prices.

With the long nights drawing in, we are craving more cosy, delicious and nutritious meals to get us through winter. The good news is that arguably the single greatest addition we can make to our home is back in store – Lidl’s kitchen assistant.

Obviously not even the middle aisle can rustle up a real-life sous chef for us, but it does offer the very next best thing: the Silvercrest Monsieur Cuisine.

With it you can kiss your boring old oven, hob, grill, microwave and air fryer goodbye and usher in a delicious world of multifaceted cooking all in one, neat, countertop appliance instead.

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Monsieur Cuisine looks after everything, from recipe selection to weighing and measuring, to chopping and blending, to carrying out a full range of cooking techniques. It even washes up afterwards.

It is nothing less than the multicooker chef of your dreams, combining the functions of an array of different appliances, all in one easy to use device.

Pre-programmed with hundreds of recipes, it couldn’t be simpler and yet is guaranteed to serve up quality, nutritious meals for households of all sizes, with minimal effort, time after time.

Monsieur Cuisine helps you make dinner in a flash. With a multitude of functions and recipes available at your fingertips, it makes cooking – and eating well - easier than ever.

Loves to cook

Monsieur Cuisine comes with access to over 600 pre-installed recipes to help you increase your meal time repertoire with the utmost of ease. No more same old same old for dinner. Instead, you garner all the praise for delicious dishes, while Monsieur Cuisine does all the work. Now that’s a smart way to cook.

Indeed, it does the work of 23 kitchen essentials, from steaming and sautéing to blending and slow cooking. Fancy a bit of fermenting? Check. Down for some sous vide? Sorted. Partial to a bit of pureeing? Done.

It can grate cheese, chop veg, cook, simmer, roast and so much more.

It comes with a built-in weighing scale and video-guided cooking instructions, with an extra-large eight-inch colour touch screen display that makes it ultra easy to use. All you have to do is click on a recipe via the touchscreen.

Using your WiFi connection, you just browse through recipes just like on a smart phone and can download additional recipes too. You can even communicate with your kitchen helper via voice control.

Serves you right

Want to tweak a recipe to suit your needs or those of your family? No problem. Opt to cook lactose free, low fat, gluten free, vegetarian or vegan and Monsieur Cuisine will deliver. Change the recipe instructions manually or let your smart assistant do the calculations. Either way, it serves up exactly what you want.

Plus you get access to a free app to provide you with shopping list assistance and a weekly meal planner facility, all created directly from your phone.

As such, it doesn’t just save on time it also saves on food waste, saving you money.

Whether you’re a dedicated weekly meal prepper for one or a seeker of nutritious recipes for an extended family, it’s the perfect solution.

Monsieur Cuisine comes with an extensive array of accessories which are dishwasher safe and easy to clean. Indeed, it even cleans itself after use. At just under €500 with a three-year warranty, it’s a tasty price point too. And, if a customer buys Monsieur Cuisines and scans their app at the till, they will receive €100 cashback in the form of four €25 Lidl Plus vouchers on their app.

This is a kitchen assistant so good you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.

Reserve your Monsieur Cuisine through the Lidl Plus app from September 22nd-26th and collect in store from October 1st-5th. It is on general sale from October 9th.

Spaghetti Bolognese

Preparation

1. Your Monsieur Cuisine can be used to make family favourite midweek meals, like this easy spaghetti Bolognese recipe. Leaving it to simmer on the reverse setting means you don’t need to worry about monitoring or stirring the bolognese while its cooking - giving you time to get on with other things!
2. Begin by grating the Parmesan. Break the cheese into chunks and add to the blender jug, processing for 10 seconds using the turbo button. Transfer to another container and reserve until ready to serve.
3. Clean the blender jug, then add the onion, garlic, carrot and celery pieces and chop for eight seconds on speed setting five. Scrape down the sides of the jug with the spatula and process for a further 5 seconds on speed setting five.
4. Add half the oil to the jug and brown the vegetables for four minutes using the roast button. Add half the mince and cook using the roast button until browned. Remove all the ingredients from the jug and set aside, rinsing out the jug to use again.
5. Add the bacon to the clean jug and chop for five seconds on speed setting 9. Scrape down the sides of the jug with the spatula and add the remaining oil, then brown the bacon for three minutes using the roast button.
6. Feed in the rest of the mince, a little at a time, through the filleropening in the lid and brown using the roast button. Pour in the redwine and cook uncovered - leaving off the measuring beaker - for 5 minutes using the roast button, until the liquid is reduced.
7. Once reduced, add the reserved meat and vegetables, along with the sugar, tomato purée, tomatoes and stock. Season with a little paprika, black pepper, cinnamon and thyme, then cook for 30 minutes at 90ºC using the reverse button at speed setting 1, leaving off the measuring beaker insert.
8. After 20 minutes, cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions and drain in a colander. Season the Bolognese sauce well with salt and pepper, serving piled on top of the spaghetti garnished with the grated Parmesan.

Chocolate Fondant Puddings

Preparation

1. These gooey melt-in-the-middle chocolate puddings are easy to make using your Monsieur Cuisine machine. Chilling the ramekins before adding the mixture helps keep the centre of the puddings a little runny - just make sure you don’t leave the baking tray in the oven while it preheats as this may cause the cold ramekins to crack.
2. Pre-heat the oven to 230 C/210 C fan/gas mark 8. Grease eight small ramekin dishes with butter, then place in the freezer.
3. Place the chocolate in the blender jug and process for five seconds on speed setting eight. Add the butter and melt for three minutes at 60 C on speed setting two. Add the butter and melt for a further three minutes at 60 C on speed setting two, then transfer the mixture to another container and thoroughly clean the blender jug.
4. Place the eggs, sugar and salt in the blender jug and mix for two minutes on speed setting five, then reduce to speed setting three and blend for 60 seconds, slowly feeding in the chocolate and butter mixture through the lid opening.
5. Add the flour and cocoa and blend for 30 seconds on speed setting three until fully combined. Spoon the mixture into the chilled ramekins and bake in the oven on the second shelf from the bottom for 12 minutes. Serve immediately with ice cream, cream or custard.