The above highly rated pasta sauce recipe is better than the one in the BCB. Can add any vegetables you have leftover in fridge. Reduced the olive oil to 110g and left out salt , added later to taste as recommended by other members in the comments section .
Didn’t bliz at the end to leave a bit chunkier . Love the heat from the white pepper. Perfect for miss 10 recovering from winter cold. Delicious.
The guided fruity dream recipe is truly amazing but when using frozen fruit it’s sometimes a bit tricky to get the butterfly moving at the slower speeds through frozen fruit . Today’s fruit choice is a four berry mix ( strawberries , blackberries , blueberries and grapes ) We overcome the mixing issue by adding the egg white to the frozen fruit and then using the normal blades to premix and soften the fruit and egg white before inserting the butterfly to finish off the creaming .
We loooove this ice cream !! It’s so quick and so impressive seeing frozen fruit transformed into the most wonderful soft serve ice cream in our kitchen . Knowing that it is just frozen fruit with just one egg white and a table spoon of sugar takes any guilt away from an Easter afternoon treat.
Fruity Dream ( Our method )
Add 25g of sugar ( reduced from 80g in guided recipe ) to TM bowl, process at speed 9 for 10 seconds
Add 500g frozen fruit to sugar , mix 10 seconds, speed 8/9.
Add egg white , mix at speed 7/8 until softening and starting to cream a little
Insert butterfly whisk , mix 30-40 seconds /speed 3 until smooth and creamy
Food magic in a minute . Can serve immediately or place into freezer to store . So good !
The Best ever scones recipe from the community uses cream instead of butter. This highly recommended recipe is great for a traditional milk and butter scone. Added in sultanas for fruit this time . Awesome recipe .
When you have leftover vegetables in the fridge and it’s too hot for vegetable soup, this vegetable lasagne recipe is a great user of the odd pieces of carrot , celery stalks, mushrooms and spinach ( chucked in bits of leftover salad into the sauce before blitzing)
Basic method ( refer link above for ingredients )
Grate some cheese for the top, blitz cheese in tmx at speed 8-10 until fine, set aside
Make bechemal sauce , ( used guided recipe for bechemal sauce in the lasagne bolognese) set aside
Make one portion of fresh pasta dough and roll out into sheets ( or use prebought sheets) NB roll into the thinnest setting with the pasta machine.
Chop 1 onion and two cloves of garlic at speed 7 for 3 seconds . Add 30g oil and sauté 3 mins, varoma temp, speed 1.
Add leftover vegetables, blitz speed 5/6 till finely chopped (eg carrot , celery , mushrooms) , add 100g white wine, tin tomatoes , 20g vegetable stock paste , basil and parsley. ( whatever herbs you have ) salt and pepper to taste
Add spinach leaves to varoma ( NB only used one tin instead of two 400g tomatoes because substituted spinach for extra tomatoes)
Place varoma on top of TM bowl to steam spinach while cooking vegetable sauce 20 mins, varoma temp, reverse speed 2.
Layer lasagne sheets with spinach , sauce , bechemal sauce with cheese on top
Bake 50-60 mins 180C.
Delicious ! Prefer this to a meat lasagne and it’s a one dish meal .
Steamed spinach and homemade pastaBechemal sauce and vegetable sauce
We have a nut/soy milk maker so never got round to using the thermomix to make soy milk . It’s just as easy , soak beans overnight in water . Then cook with water in tmx at 80c for a a few minutes ( recipe link above ) . Blend and heat at 80c for a few more minutes. Strain, add sweetener to taste and serve . Miss 10 thinks it even tastes better. Brilliant , now I can pass my soy milk maker on to someone else .
Second time using this recipe. Easiest blueberry muffins , seconds to make in tmx, just need to remember to add blueberries after mixing so they’re not processed into oblivion . Purple muffins are yummy but much nicer seeing the whole blueberries . Topping makes for crunchy top. Love this recipe . Could add orange zest next time .
The recipe for the tomato and red lentil dahl can be found in the link above but we just used the recipe on the chip from EDC.
We had a lentil dahl in Waiheke last week and because girls liked it , I was inspired to try the tomato and lentil Dahl recipe It only takes 20 minutes cooking time and tastes healthy and full of flavour from the combination of cumin, mustard seeds, turmeric and chilli. . Miss 10 not madly in love because she doesn’t like coriander but we all like this vegetarian meal for a change . The red lentils are dried red split lentils. Added a bit more boiling water at end to make the dahl a little less dense. Lovely on rice but would be perfect on naan or pita bread.
Saw this easy recipe with 5 stars and 58 glowing recommendations on the recipe community , link above . It’s fudgy in the middle and slightly crusty on the outside . Perfect dessert with some cream and strawberries . Melt butter chocolate and sugar in tmx 5 mins, add eggs and flour and ready to cook . Only took 25 mins in our oven at 190c.
And with Whittakers 50% dark chocolate , it’s a winner. Reduced sugar from 180g to 120g. Still sweet enough . Will make again .
This is one of our favourite homemade takeout foods . ( link above ) The best thing is knowing it doesn’t contain artificial flavours like msg. The 11 secret spices are blended in tmx at speed 10 to a fine flour . I used a tray of 6 chicken thighs sliced into small and pieces. Used about half the spice mix for this meal. Saved 1/2 for another meal . Once the chicken is coated , grilled in the sunbeam contact health grill which means no standing around the pan frying the pieces. Miss 10 stood next to the grill to sneak the chicken as it came off. So tasty !
This last year has been one of those ones where we’ve only just managed to keep things afloat. A huge project was finished but nothing extra was done, not too much love in the kitchen, no blogging , and a lot was on hold, now it’s finally time to get back to the simple pleasures in life , food family and friends .
A huge dream came true last year and the icing on the cake for me is the surprise 50th birthday gift of ….. oh wow…….another Thermomix. Still can’t quite believe there are now two in our kitchen. Thankyou Michael and Karen !!! It’s action stations now as we test how much we can do with two thermomixes in our kitchen . We thought one was life changing and couldn’t wait to see what we could do with two.
Such a luxury ! Imagine that … we can double the quantity, we can be twice as productive . So what did we do first … we proved dough in one while the other one cooks a meal . Pasta cooked in one while sauce is done in the other one .
Steamed chicken , potato fritters
Yesterday , while chicken steamed in the varoma, we grated potato for hash browns in the other . Then mixed dough for cinnamon scrolls and marmite scrolls next in one . Then processed the chicken to make chicken spread for sandwiches without having to wash the bowl. Yippee, poor husband couldn’t believe how many dishes to wash but we didn’t go hungry that’s for sure ! And the smells from the kitchen were heavenly.
Chicken spread
The chicken spread is handful of almonds , Italian parsley , cream cheese , mayonnaise , sour cream , lemon juice , salt and pepper to taste . Blitz the almonds and herbs , set aside then shred cold chicken reverse speed 4. Then combine all ingredients and blitz in tmx reverse speed 4/5. Perfect for picnic lunches in rolls.
Dough for cinnamon scrolls
The Annabel Langbein recipe for dough makes two tins of scrolls , so one half of the dough is saved in fridge for the next day …. marmite scrolls . Great for our summer holiday lunches .
Sticky Buns Adapted for thermomix:- ( dough fills two large cake tins)
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.
Marmite and cheese scrollsCinnamon scrollsHash browns
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