Month: July 2016

Beef stew

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Beef stew 

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/beef-stew-buttermilk-dumplings/40182

It’s a sad day, we’ve decommissioned our  pressure cooker  for fear of explosions from recent news reports . The pressure cooker was mostly dragged out for a quick 20 minute beef casserole. Found a very similar one on the recipe community for the thermomix ( link above) except we don’t use tomato paste in our pressure cooker stew ( recipe below )   The thermomix recipe for beef stew had 112 favourable comments, a quick 5 minute prep tmx chops the garlic and onion before it sautes. Even better buy the pre -diced beef too. Cooked a little longer (15 mins) than time on the recipe waited for beef to be soft. Also added celery and substituted the peas for snow peas  and the dumplings for boiled potatoes. Will add mushrooms next time. Easy family food .

For my daughters  , here’s the other recipe we normally use in case safe pressure cookers come back .

Our pressure cooker beef stew

  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1 small onion
  • 900g – 1kg cubed beef stew meat
  • 5 carrots, peeled and diced
  • chopped herbs
  • 8 medium baking potatoes, peeled and cubed
  • 1 Tb chicken stock paste
  • 2cups water
  • 2 teaspoons cornstarch
  • 2teaspoons salt, or to taste
  • pepper to taste

Sauté onions , saute beef separately, then  add stock , water, and carrots to beef and onions . Add any chopped herbs you wish, cook in pressure cooker for 20 minutes, or casserole dish in oven for 1.5 to 2 hours. Boil potatoes on stove while the stew is cooking. Bring stew to boil and add cornstarch to thicken,  salt and pepper to taste.

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Beef casserole 

 

Silverbeet,leek and ricotta lasagne

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Silverbeet, leek and ricotta lasagne

Converted Nadia Lim’s recipe for silverbeet, leek and ricotta lasagne for the Thermomix . We all love this lasagne and have repeated several times as its a much lighter than the mince white sauce version, a simple vegetarian lasagne.

Silverbeet, leek and ricotta lasagne

Tomato sauce

  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 TB thyme
  • 1 TB olive oil
  • 2 1/4 c tomato passata or 2 cans crushed tomatoes
  • 2 TB tomato paste

lasagne

  • 1 leek
  • 1 bunch of silverbeet ( leaves only )
  • 1 TB olive oil
  • 500g ricotta cheese
  • 100g grated parmesan
  • 1/4 tsp salt and pepper
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 400g lasagne sheets
  • 1 1/2 c grated mozzarella
  1. Make sauce in Thermomix by chopping garlic, thyme and onion at speed 7 in TM bowl
  2. Add oil and sauté 3 mins, varoma temp, speed 1
  3. Add tomatoes/ passata and tomato paste to the TM bowl , cook 10 mins, varoma temp, speed 2. Set aside
  4. While sauce is cooking in Thermomix , pan fry the finely sliced leeks with olive oil for 5-6 minutes , then add finely sliced silverbeet to the pan for 2 minutes until wilted , set aside
  5. mix ricotta , parmesan, salt and pepper and nutmeg and add to leek and silverbeet and mix well
  6. Grease baking dish and layer lasagne sheets with tomato sauce , and ricotta vegetable mix , top with mozzarella cheese
  7. bake 25-30 mins 200C.

Delicious and easy!

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Quirky cooking fried rice

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http://www.quirkycooking.com.au/2009/08/thermomix-fried-rice/

Technically not fried rice, but it’s healthy steamed rice with vegetables chicken and bacon from Quirky cooking online recipes . Really efficient recipe , love how the rice cooks in the basket while the vegetables and chicken cook in the varoma dish and tray above.  Makes a huge amount because we loaded the varoma quite full with vegetables , just need to make sure there is holes available for steam to get to the varoma tray as well .

French Onion dip

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French onion dip

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/sauces-dips-spreads-recipes/french-onion-dip/82471

Fantastic another dip to add to the favourites, onion dip made from real onions, usually make this dip using the maggi onion soup mix and reduced cream so was happy to find this one making dip from sautéing real onions and then mixing with cream cheese to complete . Yummy dip for kids to eat with vegetable sticks. I halved the recipe as we only had a small tub of cream cheese and used onion powder instead of vegetable stock.

 

Chocolate and plum Brioche

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Chocolate and plum brioche

School holiday baking, this is the guided spiced cherry brioche recipe from the Festive Flavour cookbook. Instead of cherries and spices , we filled the brioche wreath with chocolate chunks,  plums and cranberries. Easier than expected because there is only one prove required a the beginning. Filled two rolls and then plaited and joined to make the wreath .

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Chocolate plum and cranberry filling

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/cranberry-and-cherry-brioche-wreath/17784

The recipe is almost same as this one above in the recipe community , only one tsp of salt not two and 40g of sugar instead of 30g. Slightly easier method , make two longish rolls and twist together then join to make one wreath. Bake 35 mins at 180c.

Delicious and impressive coming out of the oven today.

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Chocolate plum brioche sliced