Light meals

Homemade wonton pastry

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Wonton pastry
Wonton pastry
Wonton soup
Wonton soup

A momentous day in our kitchen. The first time we’ve made wonton pastry. We all love wontons and having worked in a Chinese restaurant in school holidays as a teenager  I remember rolling these by the hundreds but never made the pastry myself. With miss 14 home from school we rolled up enough for afternoon tea and dinner. Definately a great job to share with the family otherwise very time consuming.

The recipe is so simple: based on a recipe from A Taste of Asia and adjusting recipe to suit.

Wontons homemade pastry  ( made about 40)

  • 150g flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 TB water
  1. Add all ingredients to TM bowl,  Mix a few seconds in speed 3. Then knead on dough mode 1 minute. Leave to rest for 30 mins.
  2. Roll out to thinnest setting on the pasta machine.
  3. Cut into squares and flour between the sheets so they don’t stick
  4. Make the filling with prawns and chicken  – used the recipe link below but reduced fish sauce and oyster sauce so they weren’t too salty, the white pepper gives them wonderful flavour.
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    Steamed wontons

    http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/starters-recipes/steamed-prawn-and-chicken-dumplings/29063

  5.  Put a small amount of the filling on the wrapper and roll into wontons.
  6. Place in Varoma dish and steam 20 mins, Varoma temp, speed 3 with a 1000g of water in TM bowl. ( sprinkled a little water on them to moisten them before steaming ) can be refrigerated or frozen at this stage.

Made soup using TM chicken stock and added some vegetables. When ready to serve add wontons to the soup and reheat. Serve with sesame oil, spring onions and soy sauce to taste. Perfect for snacks, lunch, dinner and can be served with a dipping sauce.

NB The pasta roller has to get to 1, the thinnest setting, We missed the last quarter turn and the first batch were not quite as thin as the bought pastry but would be perfect as dumpling dough.

Pizza (thin base )

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Prosciutto and basil pizza
Prosciutto and basil pizza

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-savoury-recipes/charlies-thin-pizza-base/154354

These pizza bases are now our go to recipe, using Charlies thin pizza recipe from the recipe community. Doubling the recipe makes over 3 oven tray size pizzas and the base can be rolled super thin because it still  rises slightly in the oven.

Charlies thin pizza (doubled)

  • 500 grams plain flour
  • 2 teaspoon dried yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 300 grams warm water
  • 2 pinch salt
  1. Add yeast,warm water and sugar to tmx bowl  ( leave 5 mins )till frothy. We like to do this to make sure the yeast is fresh.
  2. Then add flour and salt, mix 3 mins, 37 C, speed stir. Leave 30 mins ( we just leave it in the TM bowl )  then punch down. Recipe states to mix 20 secs on slow speed instead of punching down the dough  we punch!
  3. Divide into 3-4 balls, roll out as thin as possible. Top and bake 220 C for 15 – 20 mins.
Prawn, garlic and aoli pizza
Prawn, garlic and aoli pizza

Preheat the oven tray if not using a pizza stone to get a crispier base. Topped these bases with finely chopped garlic, prawns, mutti tomato purée, red onion, and mozzarella. Edges brushed with olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper. Baked in oven 220C for 15 minutes. Topped baked pizzas with fresh baby spinach, bell peppers, basil, prosciutto and aioli.  Topping ideas from Chelsea Winters first cookbook At My Table which was just delivered yesterday. Whoopee more recipes to try.

Dinner tonight was Leek and potato soup with pizza. Well, at least the soup was healthy!

Soft Paleo Bread Rolls (no proving needed)

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Soft paleo buns
Soft paleo bread rolls

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/super-soft-paleo-grain-free-seed-bread-rolls/228306
This recipe has been highly recommended. If you’re looking for paleo bread rolls  then they fit the bill, super soft straight from oven and still soft when cooled down. Made from psyllium husks, coconut flour and assorted seeds. The texture is not fluffy like normal bread but denser and slightly chewy, the  chia seeds add a little crunchiness which is nice. I used a tsp regular sugar instead of coconut sugar. The dough is quite wet but easy enough to shape and the time to make is significantly quicker than normal bread buns because there’s no proving required. Simply grind the husks then mix in the other ingredients.  Not sure if kids will like them, they may be too healthy for them!But they’re very filling. I just had one bread roll with chicken and it feels like it will last the distance to dinner.

Cheese and Bacon Rolls

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Cheese and Bacon rolls
Cheese and Bacon rolls

http://thermomumma.com/cheese-bacon-bread-rolls/

Another great recipe from thermomumma.com. These are as good as the Bakers Delight ones.  Crunchy on the top and soft and fluffy in the middle … Perfect ! Took them out of the oven not a minute too soon, after  18 mins on fanbake, they would have been burnt by 20 mins and probably would have been done by 12-15 mins in our oven. Finding we don’t need to fanbake any of her bread recipes either, made these another time on nomal bake and increased to fanbake last 5 minutes to brown a little more. Will be going straight into freezer after they cool for lunchboxes. Hah…Well and truly fallen off the paleo wagon, it’s impossible when you see and smell the bread baking.

Charlie’s thin pizza base

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Charlie's thin pizza base
Charlie’s thin pizza base

The guided pizza dough recipe is great but if you prefer a lighter thin pizza base, Charlie’s thin pizza base from the recipe community  is perfect. It is as simple to make as the guided recipe and even shorter proving time.  And it’s as light as pita bread. Miss 14 topped with standard ham cheese and pineapple. (Chop cheese at speed 8 until sound changes, check consistency through lid)

Thai Spring rolls

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Thai Spring Rolls

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/starters-recipes/thai-spring-rolls-poh-pia/226395

Another trending recipe from the community that we had to try. It’s school holidays so a good time to get the kids into the kitchen and wrapping these spring rolls was a perfect activity for them. You will need a couple of spring rolls packets. I only had one packet so have some extra filling to be used tomorrow.

Leftover spring roll filling
Leftover spring roll filling

We used chicken mince instead of pork and uncooked prawns which I just threw in with the chicken mince and pulsed once to combine. Cooked a few minutes extra and tasted before adding extra seasoning. Our spring rolls were fried in an airfryer but could easily be baked in the oven too.

Homemade burger buns and white bread loaf

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Burger buns and white bread loaf
Burger buns and white bread loaf

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/white-bread-rolls-thermomumma/282033

http://thermomumma.com/category/recipes/bread/

Homemade burgers and bread loaf. Used the recipe above from thermomumma’s blog but used  half for burger buns and half for loaf tin.  Friday night takeaway food at home. What makes them special tonight is Chelsea Winter’s secret sauce made from gherkins, mayonnaise, mustard.

Burgers
Burgers

Sliced the bread loaf for the freezer. Turned out great.

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Sliced loaf

Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls

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Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls
Chicken and vegetable sausage rolls

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-savoury-recipes/chicken-and-vegetable-sausage-rolls/139332

Yah!! Found another good lunchbox item again from ‘road to loving my thermomix’. This recipe for chicken and vegetable sausage rolls (link above) is fantastic. No sausage, no preservatives, no additives … Just 400g chicken, some leek, a carrot, one celery stalk  and a tablespoon of TM vegetable stock.  ( left out spinach today) Added an egg and a handful of cheese, some salt and pepper to the mix. Rolled into puff party and they’re delicious, light and tasty. Halved the pastry and placed sausage mixture in a line in middle before wrapping sides around the chicken mixture.  After 30 minutes at 190C they weren’t very brown so grilled for a minute. If  freezing to reheat later, they would be perfect because the second bake would brown the top more.

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Hummus and crackers

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Hummus and crackers
Hummus and crackers

It doesn’t get easier than this, guided recipe for hummus, I substituted peanut butter for tahini today,  too lazy to make a batch. A tin of chick peas some lemon juice, tsp cumin, salt and pepper and that’s kids afternoon tea done.

Vegetable coconut curry

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Vegetable curry
Vegetable curry

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-vegetarian-recipes/veggie-coconut-curry/73298

Cleaning out fridge and clearing out the unused vegetables.  This curry is a great way to use up the excess vegetables, that odd bit of pumpkin or sweet potato, the half broccoli or cauliflower.  Kids ate with crackers and mum and dad ate with rice.  And it requires nothing more then some curry powder and coconut milk, not an extensive list of herbs. Love how the TM chops the garlic, onion and ginger and then sauté. I filled the whole Varoma dish and cooked a little longer 20 mins. Thickened slightly with some cornflour at end but doesn’t really need to be thickened at all.