Light meals

Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

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Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic
Pizza pops with rosemary and garlic

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/breads-rolls-recipes/pizza-pops/139424

Made these pizza pops again to freeze for school lunches.  This time flavoured the pizza dough with rosemary and garlic. Just throw a handful of fresh rosemary and two garlic cloves into the TM bowl before following the guided pizza dough recipe.  Chop rosemary and garlic at speed 7 until finely chopped. Then follow the guided recipe for pizza dough  from there, no need to set aside the rosemary and garlic.

Apple and blueberry pancakes

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Apple and blueberry pancakes
Apple and blueberry pancakes

Our new favourite pancakes, it’s a Jamie Oliver recipe someone has adapted on the recipe community. We use the whole apple, skin and seeds.  Reprinting recipe below so it’s easier to follow : Apple and Blueberry pancakes 

  • 1 whole apple, quartered (leave skin on)
  • 200 g SR Flour White or Wholemeal, or buckwheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon ground
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • 250 g milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 heaped tablespoon honey
  • 100 g blueberries, fresh or frozen
  1. Place apple into TM Bowl for 2 secs on speed 6, scrape down sides of bowl.
  2. Add remaining ingredients (except blueberries) & mix for 5 secs on speed 5.
  3. Add blueberries & mix for 1 sec on reverse speed 3.
  4. Cook in a medium heat in fry pan with a little butter, until golden and springy to the touch. Serve with your favourite fruit and syrup & some homemade yoghurt.

TIPS Based on 2 Jamie Oliver Recipes.Mill your cinnamon & nutmeg fresh for an even more delicious result. Gluten free option mill almonds & buckwheat to use in place of flour.

Little Party Savouries

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Mini quiches
Mini quiches – little party savouries

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-savoury-recipes/little-party-savouries/17400

Great recipe ! Made these mini quiches using puff pastry today. They are perfect snack, lunch box or party food.  Another popular trending recipe from the community( link above ). The filling was made in a minute and makes either 24 mini savouries or  12-15 muffin size savouries. Next time chop bacon in thermomix first, before blitzing the cheese, onion and parsley. Then no need to cut anything.  Added some spinach and an extra egg. Kids can’t taste the onion, almost a whole onion in these savouries, because it’s blitzed  to a paste. Used two puff pastry sheets. The mini muffin tin size was too small, eaten in minutes, so made another two batches using normal muffin tin. Frozen in bags ready for lunches. Yippee … The only problem is cleaning the muffins trays..

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Potato Leek and Bacon Soup

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Potato Leek and Bacon Soup
Potato Leek and Bacon Soup

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/soups-recipes/potato-leek-bacon-soup/163267

The guided leek and potato soup part of the chicken velouté meal makes a great side dish quantity but this Friday night no one feels like cooking.  So a full meal of leek and potato  soup would be great. Tried this recipe from the community which has bacon added and uses 500g of potato and 700g of liquids ( milk/water/cream). Much larger than the 370g of potato and 500 g water used in the guided recipe.  It’s delicious, everyone loved it. Hot creamy soup with some toast is perfect for a cold Friday night. Substituted 100g creme fraiche for cream.

Another popular Leek and Potato soup which has 52 favourable comments ( link below ) and is an even larger step up in quantities from the guided recipe. This one uses  600g of potatoes and 1.125g of liquids. Will try this one another night.

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/soups-recipes/potato-and-leek-soup/83059

Chicken and vegetable and noodle soup

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Chicken and vegetable and noodle soup
Chicken and vegetable and noodle soup

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/recipes/chicken-vegetable-noodle-soup/49098

The colds have arrived so had to make this chicken and vegetable noodle soup from the recipe community. It’s an easy tasty standard, and used up leftover vegetables in the fridge. Made with the TM vegetable stock, a cup of pasta and some cooked chicken. Another great use for the shredded cooked chicken or leftover roast chicken. Very quick, cooked in 17 minutes, used hot water and the addition of white pepper at the end gives the soup extra warmth.

Lemon Fish Pie

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Lemon Fish Pie
Lemon Fish Pie

Annabel Langbein’s ( Great Food for Busy Lives) recipe for Lemon Fish Pie, is an easy one dish family dinner. The two main elements white sauce and mash potatoes made by the thermomix using guided functions.

Lemon Fish Pie

  • 2c white sauce (bechemal sauce)
  • 3-4 TB lemon juice
  • 500g boneless fish
  • 3 hard boiled eggs
  • 4c mash potato
  1. Make bechemal sauce using one step method ; Add 40g butter, 40g flour, 500g milk, pinch of nutmeg, 1/2 tsp salt and pepper  to TM bowl – cook 7 mins, 90C, speed 4. Mix in  3 TB of lemon juice to cooked  sauce.
  2. Make mash potato using guided function or recipe community method. One quantity of the guided recipe seems to be the perfect amount for a family meal like this. I tried this method by thermomike (link below) because sometimes the butterfly pops out when the potatoes are cooking using guided.  Put the eggs in the Varoma dish on top while the mash potatoes are steaming. Note: be careful to use correct amount of water per recipe to prevent it boiling over. http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/side-dishes-recipes/best-mashed-potato-ever/163866
  3. Lay fish fillets at bottom of the dish ( we don’t even bother cutting up fish because it’s so soft once it’s cooked)  top with peeled quartered boiled eggs, lemon white sauce and mash potatoes.
  4. Bake 220C for 25-30 minutes until top is slightly browned.

Great wintery comfort food!image

Chicken and Vegetable Pie

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Chicken and vegetable pie
Chicken and vegetable pie

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/chicken-and-vegetable-pie/17616

Very tasty, this pie recipe is a goodie to be saved… Another popular recipe from the community, 113 positive reviews,  easy family dinner, got everyone’s seal of approval. After reading the comments we omitted the water and used milk instead of cream.  Super easy, pastry used as a topping only, added beans and mushrooms too. Note for next time mix cornflour with some of the milk before adding so the cornflour doesn’t burn on the bottom of the TM bowl.

Chicken and vegetable pie dinner
Chicken and vegetable pie dinner

Burger Buns

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Burger buns
Burger buns

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

NB the link for this recipe is now on Thermomummalailahrose’s blog at thermomumma.com see link above, no longer on the recipe community. Thanks to Lailah Rose for publishing on her blog. We were so disappointed to find it missing from the recipe community and thought we’d lost it forever. Definately pays to copy your favourite recipes.

This recipe for Jumbo bread by Thermomumma (link above)  makes AMAZING burger buns. This recipe was probably one of the top 10 most popular recipes from the community,  always trending. They are crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside, just like all the comments state, makes a bread/buns just like Bakers Delight. The bread rolls we made a couple of days ago (the bestest bread rolls ever) are a little denser than this recipe  and make great filled rolls but not soft enough for burger buns.

The dough like all doughs is a breeze to make with the thermomix. Throw everything in TM bowl, mix 15 seconds and then knead on dough mode for 6 minutes. The first prove only 15 minutes, ( just left in the thermomix) then either put into a loaf tin or divide into rolls and prove for approx an hour. Putting buns in oven covered with a tea towel with a bowl of boiling water underneath seems to work well for second prove. Burgers for dinner tonight. Some comments have stated using gluten free flour also still works… Will be trying her recipes for fruit loaf and wholemeal bread next.

Homemade burgers
Homemade burgers

We are blown away by how great these burger  buns are, you can’t tell they aren’t bought and the texture is just like a Wisconsin burger. Patties blended in thermomix. To my daughters who love burgers ; Blend a piece of bread (use an end), one onion and clove of garlic for a few seconds speed 7, add tray of 500g mince, an egg , salt and pepper, Worcester sauce, tomato paste and  mix on dough mode for 45 seconds. Homemade burgers ….they’re better than any burger we’ve ever bought.

Vietnamese Beef Pho

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Vietnamese Beef Pho

http://mylittlechequeredkitchen.com/2013/04/18/quick-easy-beef-pho/

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-others-recipes/pho-vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup/166957

This Vietnamese Beef Pho recipe by Annabel Langbein Free Range in the City ( see link above from “my little chequered kitchen”) is delicious, not exactly the same flavour profile because we used TM homemade  chicken stock instead of beef stock. But the heroes of the dish are the ginger, spices, huge amount of coriander and the melting sirloin just cooked as the broth is poured over the finely sliced strips. Here is the recipe adapted for thermomix. Also included a recipe from the recipe community which was used as a base to convert the Annabel Langbein recipe.

Quick and Easy Beef Pho (serves 2)

  • 100g dried rice vermicelli (glass noodles) or fresh rice noodles
  • 1 1/2 litre beef stock
  • 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1/2 tsp Chinese five spice mix
  • pinch of ground cloves
  • 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
  • 1 small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
  • 1 kaffir lime leaf (used two dried leaves)
  • 8 button mushrooms, thinly sliced
  • 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised ( used a 1/2 tsp from jar)
  • 100-150g beef (used sirloin  sliced as thinly as possible across the grain
  • 2 spring onions, sliced into thin strips or matchsticks (julienne)
  • 1 medium carrot, sliced into thin strips or matchsticks (julienne)
  • handful of mung beans (used lettuce)
  • 1 lime, cut in half
    to serve …
  • coriander leaves
  • peanuts.
  1. Add ginger to TM bowl, chop 3 sec, speed 7.
  2. Add beef  stock, fish sauce, five spice, cloves, chilli, kafir lime leaf , lemon grass to TM bowl , cook 20min, Varoma temp, reverse speed 2. ( until boiling)
  3. While broth is coming to boil, prepare other ingredients. ie Pop fresh rice noodles or vermicelli noodles into a  bowl and cover with boiling water, finely slice steak, julienne carrots to matchsticks , slice spring onions, slice mushrooms or other vegetables you would like to use.
  4. Place vegetables into serving bowls, drain noodles and divide into the serving bowls  , place beef strips on top.
  5. Ladle boiling stock over the beef and noodles. Top with spring onion and coriander, squeeze of lime and a sprinkle of peanuts.

Simple, fresh, light and warming. The steak is divine like this! Must get onto making the TM beef stock.

Non Fried Rice

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Non fried rice
Non fried rice

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/pasta-rice-dishes-recipes/non-fried-fried-rice/134448 Yummy …. This very  popular recipe from the community is great because we didn’t have to cut anything up or stir anything or stand by the stove. And it’s not fried, it’s steamed so less oil and healthier. For us fried rice is a regular meal so to find a supremely simple thermomix recipe is exciting. The thermomix cut up the onions and garlic, cut up the bacon, cut up the vegetables, cooked the eggs, veges and the rice at the same time. All you have to do add some cooked chicken ( here’s another use for the shredded chicken made and posted a few days ago) Flavour with salt and pepper, soy sauce , oyster sauce  and it’s ready to eat. I added some chorizo to the eggs for a little heat and spice and used about 1000g of luke warm water to make sure the basmati was properly cooked. Total cook time about 25 minutes for this recipe but in that time  you can wash up or read a book or even go for a walk while it’s cooking. Awesome definately lives up to the 157 positive 5 star ratings and rave reviews. Post note- tastes even better the next day!