Very easy with chip guided recipes. No thinking required and a good result guaranteed with these well tested recipes.
Pikelets
Lunchboxes
Potato Croquettes
Cooking with the thermomix is so easy we seem to always a lot of leftovers. What to do with leftover mash potato and pasta… make potato croquettes. Mixed the leftover mash and macaroni, added ham and chives, salt and pepper. Miss 13 formed into patties and dipped in flour, egg wash, and dipped into breadcrumbs.
Cinnamon buns / cinnamon scrolls
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.
Pikelets
Pikelets for morning tea. Loving the guided recipes on the thermomix. You don’t have to think, just follow the instructions and feel confident the result will be tasty and fairly foolproof. Just have to make sure you’ve checked the page of minor corrections to some of the recipes but to gave access to over 170 guided recipes is fantastic, hope they bring out more recipe chips in future. .
Steamed pork 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
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
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.
Tuna dip
With croutons made had to find a healthy dip to accompany them. And via my travels on the web and came across this little gem by thermomon, another thermomix owner posting great tips and recipes on her blog. I substituted half sour cream because I ran out of cream cheese but the dip was a big hit with the family and excellent picnic food.
More gingerbread biscuits for Xmas
More gingerbread cookies by Miss 13.
Hummus
I’ll have to think of a different adjective to describe how “easy” it is to make hummus. But it is easy, guided recipe, measure straight into bowl. Substituted peanut butter for tahini paste as we didn’t have any in pantry and the result is yummy. Toasted Pita pockets and freshly made hummus for breakfast. Whoopee! There must be a TM recipe for pita pockets too. Watch this space.
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