Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Au Revoir Mes Amies!

We are setting off on a French adventure on Monday, however thermie will be staying at home. I will try and share some yummy food finds with you and certainly will bring home some inspiration for recipes to try.... 

Friday, August 9, 2013

Cheats Butter Chicken

Cheats Butter Chicken This is adapted from a recipe shared with me by a friend doing the Michelle Bridges 12WBT so thanks Michelle for the inspiration. I wanted to convert it for thermomix use, and it's a great family meal and super easy. Though when served with rice, mango chutney and poppadums it's probably not as low in calories as the original! Chop 1 peeled medium brown onion for 15 seconds speed 4, scraping down sides halfway through. Add 40g oil and cook at varoma speed 1 for 5 minutes. Insert the butterfly, add 450-500g chicken stir fry strips (I did say easy!) and cook again at varoma speed 1 for 5 minutes. Next add 1 400g can crushed tomatoes, 1 400g can of lentils drained and rinsed, 2tbs or 45g tandoori paste, 2tsp stock powder and 30g water. You could use 30g liquid stock or just water if you don't make Tenina's chicken stock powder! Cook for 30 mins at 100 reverse stir speed. Add 120g light cooking cream and cook for a further 2 minutes at 100 stir speed. Serve with all the trimmings and don't feel guilty it's pretty healthy!

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Toasted Muesli

I love toasted muesli but prefer not to load my breakfast up with too much fat content. The thermie gets a look in as a mere food processor with this recipe, but it's worth sharing as its delicious and a little bit healthy to boot!

Use the thermomix on speed 4, just 2 or 3 seconds at a time to chop a mix of nuts about 2 cups in all. I used peanuts, cashews, almonds and pepitas for this blend. I warn you it does change each time, so just use what you have in the pantry.

Mix through 2 cups of chopped dried fruit using reverse speed 2, again whatever you like. In this case I used apricots, pears, sultanas and craisons.

Combine the fruit and nuts along with 4 cups of rolled oats in a large bowl, then spread onto an oven tray lined with baking paper. Spray lightly with a low flavor oil- I use rice bran oil spray. Drizzle about 1tbs of maple syrup over before baking at 170 degrees for up to 30 mins or until golden and toasted. Every 5 minutes stir it around and reapply oil and maple so all sides toast, and you can monitor to make sure it doesn't burn.

If you like the flavor add 1/2 cup shredded coconut after 20 mins.

Return to the bowl to cool, and add some other cereal for texture. II used 1 cup of puffed wheat, 1 rice bubbles and 1 of Special K. You can add anything you like here to suit your palate and diet.

Once completely cool store in a sealed container.

4000 Page Views!

Wow I am amazed that today Daily Mixes has logged 4000 page views... I had better get a recipe up pronto to celebrate!