Lunchboxes

Hamburger patties

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Hamburgers
Hamburgers

Never used a recipe for burger patties, but for my daughters, here is a guide for ours : blend one onion and a slice of bread or breadcrumbs  (red onion is best) on speed 7 for a few seconds until finely chopped, add a tray of mince (450-500g),an egg,  some tomato paste, Worcester sauce, salt and pepper. Blend on reverse speed 3 for a few seconds until combined. Test the taste by frying a tsp size patty. Shape into burger patties and pan fry a few minutes each side.

Found some similar recipes on the recipe community :-

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/rissoleshamburger-patties/57394

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/main-dishes-meat-recipes/hamburgers/82665

Brioche bread

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Brioche
Brioche

The last time we ever tried brioche in this kitchen, miss 14 was dismayed to find it required overnight proving. And copious amounts of butter to be slathered over the buns. The result was less than perfect because there were so many elements to get right in making them by hand. So she gave on making them again. Considering the first attempt and the fact that patience is not a virtue  in this kitchen, we were dubious even the thermomix version would be successful. Most recipes we’ve seen require between 6 hours to over night rising usually in two separate sessions.

Just followed the guided recipe for brioche, and here’s the result. The dough was extremely soft and moist so wasn’t sure if it would turn out. But the cooked brioche is impressive, has a lovely soft buttery texture, slightly sweet, smells divine out of the oven.  Had to leave the dough to rise for three hours but it’s worth the wait. Would be lovely Sunday brunch food. Was supposed to leave the loaf for a second rise one hour but wanted it ready for kids afternoon tea so just stuck it in the oven after the first rise. Baked 30 minutes later, the loaf is ready to slice. I suspect the top may have been more smooth and rather than cracked if it had been left to prove for another hour. But we can’t complain, who would have thought we could produce a bread just like the French bakery round the corner  and better still it’s homemade.

 

Ham and cheese muffins

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Ham and cheese muffins
Ham and cheese muffins

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-savoury-recipes/cheese-and-bacon-muffins/17346

Ham and cheese muffins or Bacon and cheese muffins standard fare for kids lunch boxes. Excellent recipe from the recipe community ( link above ) used ham instead of bacon so skipped the frying stage. Whipped together in the thermomix in a 5 minutes. Used paprika instead of cayenne.  Taste great and will be following other members tips, adding carrot, capsicum, corn to the mixture before it’s blended. Makes about 1 and half trays, will be great frozen and popped into the lunchbox. Just don’t forget the eggs, because they’re on the ingredient list before the bacon, easy to miss them out as I’ve done!

Scones- Never fail

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Never fail scones
Never fail scones

http://www.recipecommunity.com.au/baking-sweet-recipes/scones-never-fail/17595

Heat the oven now. These are absolutely the best scones ever made in our kitchen! This recipe from the recipe community (link above) is aptly named never fail scones. Made from self raising flour, baking powder, icing sugar and  cream,  so easy,  put in all the ingredients, mix 10 seconds and knead for 1 minute…. Done! Put dough straight onto baking tray, roughly cut into squares and baked for 15 minutes. Nothing to clean up, only the thermomix bowl which is set on self clean. Perfect with jam, whipped cream and a cup of tea before the storm hits tonight.  And the best thing is, if you ever have  surprise visitors,  these can be on the table in 15 minutes.

Carrot muffins

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Carrot muffins

Our family favourite carrot muffins, made super quick by blitzing the carrots in the thermomix. I think this recipe came from a very old Alison Holst recipe. Even though I could convert the whole recipe for the thermomix, muffins are so easy to mix that it isn’t really necessary and plus it’s quite satisfying mixing baking by hand sometimes.

Carrot muffins 

  • 3/4 c flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground allspice
  • 3/4 c brown sugar
  • 1/4 c walnuts (optional)
  • 1/2 c sultanas (optional)
  • 1/2 c oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 200 g carrots ( about 2-3 carrots)
  1. Mix all dry ingredients
  2. Beat oil and eggs
  3. Blend chopped carrots in thermomix 3 seconds, speed 7. Add to oil and eggs
  4. Fold wet and dry ingredients together.
  5. Bake in greased muffin trays 190c fan bake 15 minutes. ( makes 12 medium muffins)

Ham and cheese quinoa muffins

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Ham and cheese quinoa muffins
Ham and cheese quinoa muffins

Attended another thermomix course last night with Miss 14. The menu was mouth watering Moroccan chicken with cous cous salad, meatloaf wrapped in prosciutto, berry sorbet, green smoothie, cashew and sundried tomato dip, lemon cupcakes, chocolate torte and sticky date pudding. All very yummy and more inspiration to try all these recipes too. Ham and cheese quinoa muffins were recommended at last night’s course. This is a guided recipe from the second cookbook and chip “cooking for me and you”. These gluten free muffins are fantastic, very light and moist and made from ham, cheese, egg, quinoa, spring onion and herbs. Perfect lunchbox food. Everyone loved them. The only problem was the recipe only made 9 so will be doubling it next time.

Steamed buns

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Steamed buns
Steamed buns
Chicken filling

These steamed buns are a great way to use up leftover meat. We had some chicken meat, minced  up in thermomix 3 seconds , speed 4. Then stir fried with some grated carrot,  hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sugar and thickened to a gravy with cornflour and water.  Made the dough in the thermomix in 10 minutes and because the dough doesn’t require proving, we can roll  them straight away.  Everyone enjoys being involved in the process of  making and filling the buns and we compete to see who can make the best looking bun that doesn’t split apart after steaming.  The best are of course mums!

Dough recipe

  • 400 g flour
  • 100 g water
  • 2 tsp dried yeast
  • 100 g milk
  • 70 g sugar
  • 1 Tb oil
  • 2.5 tsp baking powder
  • pinch salt

Directions

  1. Add all dough  ingredients to thermomix.
  2. Mix 6 seconds , speed 6.
  3. Knead 1 minute on dough mode.
  4. Divide into about 30 to 40 pieces. Roll into flat rounds, fill and wrap to close. Place buns into Varoma tray and dish.
  5. Fill thermomix bowl with 1.5 l boiling water.
  6. Place Varoma tray on tmx, steam buns 10 mins, Varoma temp, speed 3.

Gluten free pizza

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Pizza base before baking
Pizza base before baking
Baked gluten free pizza base
Baked gluten free pizza base
Gluten free pizza with toppings
Gluten free pizza with toppings

http://www.quirkycooking.com.au/2011/01/gluten-free-pizza-base/

The dough base is very wet. Was slightly worried it wouldn’t turn out but after 10 minutes at 210C it the base was cooked enough to lay the toppings. The gluten free base  tastes lovely, very light. Made by milling basmati and brown rice, millet, seeds, buckwheat in the thermomix adding arrowroot flour and water and leaving to rest for 20 minutes.  Recipe from Quirky cookbook by Jo Whitton. Also on the website ..link above.

Soft buttery pretzels

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Pretzels
Pretzels

Amazing pretzels! Made the dough in the thermomix for Sunday brunch in less than five minutes. Recipe from “Festive flavour” only needs yeast, milk, flour, sugar and olive oil.  Recipe uses 550g of flour for this recipe and we made 14 pretzels. The pretzels are dipped into a baking soda and water before being baked. The trick we’ve learnt with the dough is to let the yeast rest in the first mix of milk yeast and sugar for 10 minutes, it starts to froth on the top as it activates. Then add the flour and salt and use dough mode to knead for two minutes. Proving the dough (we just left it in the thermomix bowl) till it doubled in size took less than an hour. So while you have to think in advance when you want to eat, the dough is so easy to make and it’s a great fun activity for the kids to roll the pretzel shapes.  Baking only takes between 8-12 minutes at 200C. Brushed with butter and sea salt after coming out of the oven.

This recipe is also available on the thermomix app, the one with the green thermomix symbol. A lite version is free to download from the App Store.

Dumplings

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Dumplings
Dumplingsl

Perfect…. Dumplings made for afternoon tea and dinner. The filling is from the wonton recipe posted a couple days ago( see link below). Dumpling wrappers from the chilled section at Farros but there is also a recipe for dumpling and wonton wrappers which I’ll save for a rainy day.  Altered the recipe to reduce salt. Just sprinkled a bit of fish sauce and salt  into Chicken prawn mixture and left out oyster sauce and replaced with coriander and garlic chives from the garden. These dumplings were laid in the Varoma basket and tray and steamed for 20 minutes. Again loving the set and forget feature of thermomix. Normally making these required pan cooking in water and time standing at the stove.

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