Bread / Rolls /Buns

Cinnamon buns / cinnamon scrolls

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Annabel Langbein cinnamon buns
Annabel Langbein cinnamon buns

http://www.annabel-langbein.com/recipes/sticky-buns/405/

Sticky Buns Adapted for thermomix:- ( dough fills two large cake tins)

  • Add 125g butter and 490g milk to TM bowl. Heat 2.5 minutes, 50C, speed 2. Until butter melted.
  • Add one a sachet of dried yeast and 100g sugar. Heat 2 mins, 37C , speed 1.5. Leave 10 minutes, till yeast appears frothy.
  • Add 846g (6cups) flour, tsp salt. mix 6 sec on speed 5 first then, Knead 3.5 minutes dough mode.
    Place dough in a large pot, I place pot in warm water for around 1 hour till dough has doubled in size. Halve dough, place one in fridge/freezer for use another day. Follow instructions in recipe link above for rolling out, filling and second prove.

Still using the thermomix on average 4-5 times a day, slushies every day, ( instead of iceblocks) chopping onion, garlic and ginger, steaming veg, mashing potatoes, making salads and coleslaws, making dips, dressings, breads, pizza, focaccia, or pita. Like having a helping pair of hands in kitchen. Has added so much variety to our food. Haven’t added photos of food cooked on previously. But couldn’t resist posting the cinnamon buns because they’re so good and only three minutes kneading with the thermomix. Recipe from the Annabelle Langbeins free range cookbook. Even though  me and husband are trying to reduce gluten we succumb to a cinnamon bun because the smell of these baking is so appetising! And the recipe makes enough dough for two baking tins, one is always saved in fridge  for ham and cheese or vegemite and cheese scrolls the following day.

Steamed pork buns

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Steamed buns
Steamed buns
Miss 13 makes buns
Miss 13 makes buns

After initially not being convinced they were authentic char siew pow, we now totally love these buns. The filling was again leftover lamb diced finely with oyster sauce, hoisin sauce and soy gravy. I left out the onion  and used the homemade thermomix chicken stock for additional flavour. Yum yum yum. The thermomix is king, the dough was so easy and took literally less than five minutes to make in total. Miss 13 helped me roll and wrap the filling, then into Varoma to steam for 10 minutes, t’s a super quick scrumptious lunch.

recipe from  A Taste of Asia , thermomix cookbook P 79

Char siew pow – steamed pork buns

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Steamed bun
Steamed bun

I have always wanted to make steamed pork buns. The recipe in the ” A Taste of Asia” p79 looks so simple, no rising needed,  so had to give this recipe a go. Probably considered sacrilegious to substitute lamb for pork but I made up the filling with leftover lamb finely diced and using the oyster sauce hoisin base. The result is not  what I expected most likely because the buns did not require proving.  The buns, of course, are the same size as I put in the Varoma even though there was yeast and baking powder in the recipe. Kids loved them and they were demolished in seconds but not the fluffy steamed buns we are used to. I will search for a recipe from the community next.  What I do like about having the thermomix is the inspiration it gives us to try new recipes. Internet has been down and so haven’t had access to the recipe community website. Can’t wait to look now.

Note Just this minute my daughters have just requested I make these again, they think they’re better than the normal buns that require rising and funnily enough I may even agree! So we may be onto another lunch box winner.

 

 

 

Pita bread wraps

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Pita bread
Pita bread

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/pita-bread-wraps/128146

My kids love pita bread so this one was a must have recipe. And it’s so simple, add the ingredients knead a couple minutes proving only 15 minutes then ready to pan fry. I hardly had time to take to take a pic because the scavengers were circling, even the hummus didn’t last before I could click the button. Comments were “these are better than the ones we buy”, ” so tasty”  and moreish! . Recipe made about a dozen. Can see I will be making these often.

Soft butter rolls

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Hot bread rolls

So handy to have these for lunch boxes and snacks. Proving still takes more than an hour, will experiment with the yeast activation to see if this speeds up the rising.

Verdict after 12 days:

The thermomix has been used on average 5 times a day for simple tasks like chopping garlic and onion, creaming butter and sugar for baking, and chopping veges for salads, blending dressings and smoothies. Love how one piece of equipment does so much work so quickly, is so easy to clean,  doesn’t require any set up and also how we don’t have to worry getting out any other appliances. I haven’t used my pressure cooker ,slow cooker, cake mixer, food processor or bread maker. Must admit though I would still keep a bread maker.

Bread rolls with pesto

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Soft butter rolls and pesto
Bread rolls with pesto for breakfast

Followed two more guided recipes for bread rolls and pesto. Proving the rolls took longer than specified time because indoor temperature wasn’t  warm enough, once the dough had doubled in size, then popped into fridge to save for the morning. So kids had fresh butter rolls hot out of the oven for breakfast and plenty for lunch boxes. Pesto was super fact, seconds to blend and very tasty.

I can see having a herb garden is going to be useful.

Banana bread

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Banana bread
Banana bread

Deliciously moist and whipped up quickly in seconds. Reduced sugar in loaf to 120gms.  Wonderful popped  into kids lunch boxes and again followed  thermomix guided recipe. Note : have made this with milk instead of buttermilk  too and still turns out fantastic.

Day five: Bread and more

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White bread loaf
White bread loaf

Used another recipe community recipe for everyday white bread, personally I prefer grain bread but my daughters like white. Again easy to add the ingredients, didn’t use the bread improver as I have no idea what that is. While dough rising I made another tuna salad from recipe community.

Bread dough
Bread dough
Orange tuna broccoli Asian salad
Orange tuna broccoli Asian salad

This tuna vegetable salad from the recipe community had an Asian  flavour dressing using garlic,  ginger, soy sauce, orange juice, and toasted sesame seeds, absolutely fabulous and ready in seconds.

Picture from community page, better presentation
Picture from community page, better presentation

If I was serving up for guests, I would leave a little chunkier and arrange the orange slices prettily like the picture but I just love the fact we are eating raw broccoli and more servings of vegetables in one meal, enough leftover for my lunch tomorrow too. Finding the self clean a breeze, blitz 5 secs speed5, then same in reverse, then same forward, a couple of turbo boosts for extra energy seems to work great for wet ingredients. Dough mixture left in TM bowl require a bit more of a soak but no harder than cleaning a food processor blade.

Next want to try some biscuits, I usually make biscuits once a week and have my own favourite recipes that I’ll  convert but will try a guided recipe from the chip this time. Chocolate chip cookie mix ready in the time it takes to warm the oven.

Cookie mix
Cookie mix
Choc chip cookies
Choc chip cookies

Bread is out of the oven. I won’t be putting Bakers Delight out of business yet. It’s slightly dense but will be fine toasted. The 5 star ratings and 224 comments on the community page have made me expect a light fluffy loaf. Maybe the bread improver is important. And I read  one member kneaded 10 mins instead of 6 mins. I’m going to try it again with improver and longer kneading and rising in a warmer place.  Watch this space.

The picture in the community page looks like this below. I will not give up until I get mine the same. Apparently the dough can be used to make fab bread rolls too, maybe my bread maker will be kept a little longer.

Pic of white bread loaf from the recipe community page
Pic of white bread loaf from the recipe community page

Now what’s for dinner, my youngest has always wanted me to make butter chicken so I’m going to try out the guided recipe for butter chicken. It’s so easy and convenient following the touchscreen recipe instructions.

Butter chicken
Butter chicken

Also used the guided recipe for Chinese style vegetables. The TM blitzes garlic and ginger then sautés onion, chuck in chopped veges and soy sauce and seven minutes later, we have perfectly cooked vegetables that still have crunch factor and on top of this the machine turns itself off so I could fold clothes and leave the kitchen. I’m  not a butter chicken expert but it’s a great family meal that everyone enjoys. Miss 8 says the “butter chicken the best food in the world”! It’s so satisfying when everyone likes the food you’re cooking. And I know the dish was made with only pure natural ingredients, milled and roasted seeds, real herbs,  no additives or preservatives.

Chinese style vegetables
Butter chicken and Chinese style vegetables

 

Day Three: Inspired after looking at TM recipes through the night

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Apple and berry pancakes
Apple and berry pancakes

One of the reasons why I was convinced the TM was the way to go, is the well established recipe community. Any recipe you could possibly want to try can be searched on the community pages along with user star ratings and comments. I found this apple and blueberry pancake recipe. Literally seconds later after adding the ingredients in the TM, we have the pancake batter ready to cook. This along with linseed sunflower and chia berry smoothie gives us a healthy serve of fruit to start the day. I made myself a green smoothie from whole unpeeled apple, cucumber, spinach, mint and  l.s.c seed mix.

Green smoothie ingredients
Green smoothie ingredient
Green smoothie
Green smoothie

Daughter made the best focaccia bread, the dough was done in the machine in two minutes, and after months of skepticism about the thermomix  that mum had been talking about, she suddenly saw how incredible this piece of equipment could be.

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Best ever focaccia bread

Also made the coleslaw from the recipe chip and was so easy, just chucked in cabbage apple onion and mayonnaise, blitz a few seconds and hey presto it’s done, no pic taken, forgotten in all the excitement.

Verdict after Day three:

Even with dough kneading in the bowl, we could still use the self cleaning option and so very little extra dishes to get done. Super fast and like having a extra pair of hands in the kitchen. It’s potential is enormous. I actually felt guilty buying a loaf of bread from the supermarket but only because I realised we didn’t own any bread loaf tins to bake the bread in. The potential to mill own grains and understand exactly what is in our food will change our diet for the better.

Only negative was the butterfly whisk was a little hard to insert properly when make the fruity dream soft serve ice cream. But that’s more user familiarity than design issue. You needed to insert and twist to lock under the blades.

Cinnamon buns

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Can't believe it only 2 minutes to knead in the thermomix. The kids will be happy to see these work !
Can’t believe it only 2 minutes to knead in the thermomix. The kids will be happy to see these work !

I converted an Annabel Langbein recipe for the thermomix. So easy in minutes the dough was ready for rising and the finished product even better than hand kneaded dough.

The kids devoured one side before I could take a picture ! The texture was so soft and stayed this way the next day for school lunchboxes.

Verdict after day one:

The blitzing function is incredibly fast, loved being able to produce such a healthy tasty salad in seconds. The weighing and kneading function for bread making super fast. And the machine self cleans, wow!