Author: nzthermomixmum

Thai fish cakes

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Thai fish cakes and stir fried vegetables
Thai fish cakes and stir fried vegetables

Used guided recipe for Thai fish cakes, added salt and some fish sauce to the fish paste and only used a tablespoon of red thai curry paste (100g per recipe seemed excessive) before pan frying. Served with Chinese style stir fried vegetables guided recipe. (Broccoli, green beans, mushrooms and yellow capsicums)

Chicken and Sweetcorn soup

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Chicken and sweetcorn soup http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/soups-recipes/chicken-and-sweet-corn-soup/28018

Used the above recipe from the community  as a base to convert our own family recipe which is very similar but doesn’t have onions. We can have this with stir fried vegetables and dinner is done. Or as a lunch or afternoon tea on it’s own. The kids love this soup after school.

Chicken and sweetcorn soup

  • 1000g chicken stock
  • 400g sliced chicken (used chicken thighs)
  • 1 Tb soy sauce
  • 1cm ginger
  •  420g cream corn
  • 300g corn kernels
  • 1 Tb cornflour mixed into 60ml water
  • 2 eggs lightly whisked
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
  1. Add ginger to TM bowl,  blitz 3 sec, speed 7
  2. Add stock ( 2Tb TM chicken stock paste in 1000g water), chicken, soy sauce, both corns. Cook 20 minutes, 100 C, reverse speed 1. Make sure chicken is cooked through at this stage.
  3. Start cooking 2 mins, 105 C, reverse speed 1. Add cornflour water mixture, eggs and sesame oil.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste,  garnish with spring onions

A heartwarming soup made so simply with the thermomix.

Pumpkin and chicken risotto

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Pumpkin and Chicken Risotto

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/pasta-rice-dishes-recipes/chicken-pumpkin-and-rocket-risotto/156956

This risotto is ok and makes a huge quantity. For the first time,  I typed in two ingredients into the search bar for the community to bring up recipes using those ingredients. This is a brilliant feature of the recipe community site but need to read the comments carefully before  selecting a dish from the recipe community.   Also have to bear in mind we had eaten a lot of chicken spread on crackers before dinner so nobody was particularly hungry when the risotto was served.

Looks like Dad is going to have alot of risotto for lunch tomorrow.

Shredded Cooked Chicken

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Shredded cooked chicken
Shredded cooked chicken

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/shredded-chicken-sandwiches/93504

Will  be using this  method every week to steam chicken and shred.   (See link above)

It’s so simple .. just place chicken breasts in varoma dish for  25 mins, varoma temp, speed 2. ( with a litre of water in TM bowl).  Pop back into TM bowl and shred 4 sec, reverse speed 4.

Enough shredded chicken for sandwiches and salads during the week and can freeze in smaller bags to take out when needed.  The recipe shredded for  7 seconds, comments below the recipe suggested 4 seconds long enough which I will follow next time to have a chunkier spread.  Now it’s so easy to mix the shredded chicken with a little mayo/sour cream and herbs for chicken sandwiches. Just had as a dip after school on crackers with some chopped nuts, cucumber, and celery all chopped in the thermomix.  Perfect if you don’t want to get your hands dirty!

Chicken spread
Chicken spread

Middle Eastern meatballs and coriander sauce

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Middle Eastern meatballs and coriander sauce
Middle Eastern meatballs and coriander sauce

http://www.crossfitignitesydney.com.au/weight-loss-and-nutrition/middle-eastern-meat-patties-with-coriander-sauce

Adapted Pete Evans recipe for Middle Eastern sausages with coriander sauce. ( from Healthy Every Day). See a link for it above.  He makes the beef into sausages on kebab sticks, We’ve made meatballs instead. The coriander sauce really  makes the dish special. Everyone, even Miss 8 who doesn’t even like coriander, is dipping and coating all their food in it. At this rate we’ll need to start planting coriander because we use so much for this sauce.

Middle Eastern Meatballs

  1. Place small piece ginger in TM bowl, chop 3 sec, speed 7.
  2. Add 2 handfuls of coriander and 1 handful of mint in TM bowl with ginger, chop speed 7 until finely chopped
  3. Add onion halved, 2 tsp ground coriander, 1/2 tsp ground turmeric, tsp ground cumin, lime juice, salt, 2 Tb tomato paste, 2 eggs, tray of mince, coconut / olive oil. Blend 10 sec, reverse speed 4 until combined.
  4. Shape into balls and shallow fry.

Coriander sauce

  1. Add 1 small seeded chilli to clean TM bowl , chop 2 sec, speed 7.
  2. Add 3 handfuls of coriander,  2 handfuls of mint, sea salt chop 4 sec, speed 5.
  3. Add lime juice and coconut / olive oil, blend 3 sec, speed 4. Add up to 3TB water to thin if necessary.

Enjoy this delicious sauce with the meat, rice and salad.

Magic Bean Chocolate Cake

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Magic Bean Chocolate Cake
Magic Bean Chocolate Cake

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/magic-bean-chocolate-cake/25751

The Magic Bean chocolate cake recipe from the recipe community (link above) is probably one of the community’s most popular recipes, it has 408 positive ratings with everyone raving about how moist and how chocolatey it is, and it’s made from a tin of  kidney beans!

Well our verdict is….. it is quite incredible, just like everyone says you can’t taste the beans ( I used a tin of 4 bean mix ) and either can the kids. Haven’t told them as it might influence their opinion. And the batter was very moreish, normally licking the bowl is reserved for the kids but today I couldn’t stop myself.  It’s very good, moist, chocolatey and delicious and loving the fact it’s made from a tin of beans, adding some good protein to this treat.  I’m reprinting the recipe below because one member shared a simpler method in the comments section below which I followed to make these cupcakes. Only takes a minute to whip this cake up in the thermomix so heat the oven first.  Here it is :-

Magic Bean Chocolate Cake 

  • 420 g can kidney beans or butter beans, drained & rinsed
  • 1 tablespoon water or coffee
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or more to taste
  • 70 g raw cacao or cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon GF baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 125 g Butter
  • 5 eggs
  • 140 g rapadura or coconut sugar
  1. In the Tm bowl,  puree the beans, water/coffee, sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth. (speed 4)
  2. Add the eggs & beat for 20 seconds, speed 4. 
  3. Add the cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt ( didn’t add salt) and blend 10 seconds, speed 4. Use the spatula to scrape down and ensure thorough mixing.
  4. Pour batter into greased ring tin pan or lined cake tin and bake Moderate oven, 160*C, for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean or it springs back when touched in center. Muffins bake 180C for 20 minutes.

Chinese Style Stir Fried Vegetables

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Stir fried vegetables
Stir fried vegetables

No one can quite believe these vegetables are not stir fried. It’s a must try thermomix super simple guided recipe if you like vegetables and possibly our most used guided recipe.  We use between 500g to 1kg of fresh vegetables depending on what’s in the fridge and what’s cooking for dinner.  It doesn’t get boring because you can change the mix of vegetables every night ( recipe states 500g but we often increase  to 1kg of vegetables), as long as there are some the kids will eat everyone is happy.  If increasing to 1kg increase cook time a couple more minutes, 9 minutes. And it’s perfect for using up the end of week vegetables left in the fridge.  Leave out the chillies if preferred and follow from the garlic and ginger step. Perfect crunchy tasty vegetables ready in 7 minutes, no stirring, no standing at the stove. Woohoo!  Add some grilled/steamed chicken, beef or fish and dinner is done.

Favourite Bagels

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Bagels
Bagels

Love love love these bagels. They’re homemade and the texture and taste is amazing. Hot out of the oven with a homemade spread, omigoodness nothing quite compares. Have to save the recipe onto this blog for my girls.  It’s from a recipe app called Robogourmet and these will be frozen tonight ready for breakfasts or lunches during the week. They do take an hour and half to prove but worth the effort if you’re home for a couple hours. The initial dough prep takes less than 5 minutes.

Bagels

  • 290g warm water
  • 480g flour (recipe stated bakers flour but I used any flour and it works)
  • 2 tsp yeast (I use one sachet dried instant yeast)
  • 25g sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  1. Place all ingredients in the Thermomix. Mix for 15 secs/speed 6. Then knead on dough mode for 2 mins. Place dough in warmed Thermoserver and leave to rise for about one hour or leave in TM bowl.
  2. Divide the dough into about 10 – 12 pieces ( approx 70g each ) and roll into balls. Use your thumbs to create  a hole in the centre. Allow to rest on a lined baking tray for about 30 minutes. Cover with tea towel.
  3. Heat oven to 240C. Boil a jug of water and tip water into a thermoserver or pot. Helps to have two containers of boiling water so you can do three bagels in each container at once.  Drop three/ bagels into the boiling water for about 30 seconds per side. Use a slotted spoon to transfer to a rack to drain. Nb water must be close to boiling, if your water cools add more boiling water to increase temperature.
  4. Return to the baking tray and bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until lightly golden.

Notes:  Can brush with butter and coat with seeds before baking (eg Sesame/poppy/pumpkin) Bagels brown better if they’re not too soggy so just allow a few minutes to drain after the dipping process. Also can speed up the process by having two bowls of boiled water for dipping and Miss 14 to help drop the bagels into the water.

Crunchy Chicken bites

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Crunchy chicken bites
Crunchy chicken bites

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/side-dishes-recipes/crunchy-chicken-bites/199527

Everyone loves food that can be picked up and eaten straight off the oven tray.   This easy recipe came from Something for Everyone cookbook by Louise Fulton Keats. But found the same recipe in the recipe community, link above. Notes: Added salt to the chicken mince and used approx 500g of chicken thighs for this recipe and oven baked at 180C for 25 minutes. Next time add some hoisin sauce and sesame oil instead of tomato sauce and it will be very close to our family favourite chicken popcorn. Can just roll the balls in the crumb without coating in flour and egg first if pressed for time.  Before mincing the chicken, removed any fat from the thighs ensuring the mince is as lean as possible.

Cauliflower pizza

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Cauliflower Pizza
Cauliflower Pizza

The pizza bases are made from cauliflower and parmesan and an egg, ticks the gluten free box but not dairy free. And the recipe is from the Something for Everyone cookbook. Not a huge hit tonight because the base was not as crispy as a flour pizza but some online research reveals the secret to these bases is squeezing the moisture from the cooked cauliflower before it is mixed with the cheese. Will try again with the recipe from the recipe community in which the cauliflower has moisture removed( link below)  It’s great to see the favourable comments underneath the recipe proving it can work. And Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar recipe (link also below ) has also received positive comments and she also notes the cauliflower is cooked and should be drained. It is the same recipe as in the Something for Everyone cookbook except she uses 20g more cheese in her base.

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-vegetarian-recipes/best-ever-cheesy-cauliflower-pizza-base/221642. 

https://iquitsugar.com/recipe/not-so-nicoise-cauliflower-pizza/