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Vegetarian / Mashed sweet potatoes
« on: June 20, 2014, 01:05:41 pm »
There were beautiful sweet potatoes at the greengrocer. It was an opportunity or never to get a good mash. I have been looking for a recipe and I found it on the blog of [http://tambouillefamily.canalblog.com/archives/2011/11/18/22711183.html#c62034510]Tambouille Family[/url]. Of course, I could not stop myself from changing it slightly by adding cinnamon and nutmeg.

As I bought a large quantity, the rest of mashed sweet potatoes will be used in a pie, by adding 1 egg and honey, the bottom of pie being made from a Thermomix puff pastry.

for 4 people:

1 kg of peeled sweet potatoes
300 g milk
30 g butter
Salt, pepper
1 cac of cinnamon
1 pinch of nutmeg


In the Thermomix Bowl insert the whisk.

Cut the sweet potatoes into cubes, put them in the bowl with the milk and salt.
Set 24 min / 100 ° / reverse / speed 1 and remove the measuring cup.

At the ringing tone, unset the reverse, add the butter and mix 40 s / speed 3.

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Starters and Snacks / Verrine of cucumber
« on: June 18, 2014, 06:44:55 pm »
What of a cucumber that has been forgotten a little too long in the fridge and is no more fresh? A verrine of course. Here is a recipe found on the blog of Maryse.

For 4 verrines of 125 ml each

1 cucumber
1 plain yogurt
2 sheets of gelatine
A few mint leaves
- Or basil leaves
100 g of light crème fraîche
- Or sour cream
Spices to choose:
-cumin, ginger powder, nutmeg, sweet paprika, turmeric, curry...

Soak gelatin a few minutes in cold water and then wring out it by hand. Place gelatin in the bowl of the Thermomix between 2 knife blades, pour the cream and set 90 ° C, V3, 6 minutes. Book.

Peel the cucumber, split in two and remove the seeds. Cut it out and put it in the bowl of the Thermomix with the rest of the ingredients. Program 15 sec at speed 4. Add cream to gelatin and schedule 5 s 3-speed.

Divide among 4 verrines and set aside in the fridge until set.

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Soups / Velouté of lettuce
« on: June 17, 2014, 01:24:30 pm »
I do not like to throw. It is something that is probably part of my genes, with grand-parents who lived certainly happy, but sparingly. I was trying to clean and prepare a lettuce for our meal tonight when I told myself that all these remains vested in the trash, could be the basis for a soup for our dinner.

And here's what you need for 2 persons:

2 small shallots
10 g de butter
Peelings of a lettuce
1 cac de concentrate of Thermomix beef stock
500 g of water
Crème fraîche (or sour cream) according to taste

Chop shallots 10 sec to V5.
Add the butter, remains of lettuce and sauté 5 min at 100 ° C, V3
Add the Thermomix meat concentrate, 500 g of water, Crème fraîche and Cook 10 min at 100 ° C, V3.
At the ringing tone, smooth 20 sec to V10

Serve immediately with some peelings of parsley in decoration.

Tip: do not discard the remains of peeling of lettuce, ribs of leaves, wilted leaves because you will make a good soup that you may enrich. You could add a potato, substitute the cream by coconut milk, add diced small raw scallops on top which will cook in contact with soup, crumble some pancetta roasted in a pan... The possibilities are endless...

I prepare the same soup with radish tops.

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All In One Meals using the Varoma / Curried chicken with zucchinis
« on: June 15, 2014, 09:21:18 am »
The recipe is known, trivial, but we won't get tired of it. I had chicken breasts that were alone in the freezer, so it was an opportunity to prepare them for our lunch.

400 g of chicken breasts cut into strips
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp of ghee (1)
1 tbsp of curry powder
200 ml of coconut milk
200 g water
1 tomato diced
1 tsp curry powder (2)
1 Zucchini

Preparation : 10 minutes
Cooking time : 22 minutes

Wash the zucchini. Cut both ends and detail in small sticks of 3 cm. Arrange them on the varoma.

Chop the onion and the clove of garlic, 5 sec to Speed 5
Add 1 case of ghee and FRY 5 min at 100 ° C, Speed 2
At the ringing tone, install the butterfly whisk, add the chicken strips and a tbsp of curry powder. Fry 5 min at 100 ° C, reverse, Speed 1 with varoma in place (Zucchini will start to cook).
The ringtone, add coconut milk and water and the diced tomato. Keep the varoma and
cook 10 min at 100 ° C, reverse, Speed 1.

At the ringing tone, the zucchini should be cooked al dente.

Add 1 tsp curry powder. Mix 1 minute with the same parameters.

Serve on a Thai Hom Mali rice.

Notes:

Ghee is salted clarified butter found in Eastern groceries. Maghreb grocers sell it under the name of smen.

I always put the curry powder in 2 times. The first time when cooking the dish, and the meat becomes impregnated. The 2nd time, a small amount just to enhance the taste.

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Diet / Mayo light
« on: June 15, 2014, 09:14:23 am »
Mayo light
For 4 persons:
200 g of skimmed milk
2 leaves of gelatine
2 egg yolks
1 tbsp of mustard
1 tsp of vinegar
Salt and pepper:



During my wanderings on the web I found a blog which is a little gem, with mainly light recipes. I rushed to the recipe for mayonnaise lightened in order to prepare it in the Thermomix, of course.To use the words of the author: "truer than nature, almost the same texture and especially the same taste. Do you think that this is not possible? Give it a try and you will tell me news!"And, the cherry on the cake, it is really light with 1 ProPoint weight watcher per serving only.

Soak gelatin leaves in cold water 10 minutes.Pour 200 g of milk into Thermomix Bowl, add the gelatine well wrung out and program 6 min, 80 ° C, V2.Pour into a bowl and put in the freezer about 3/4 hour.After this time, when the milk has set, install whisk butterfly on knives, put the gelatinised milk in the bowl of the Thermomix with the rest of the ingredients.Program 1 min, Speed 4.
Tested today on a fish terrine: this is really stunning.:




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Desserts / Mirabelle plums gratin
« on: September 26, 2013, 06:44:08 am »
Name of Recipe:Mirabelle plums gratin
Number of People:6
Ingredients:
3 Eggs
150 g milk
75 g of crème fraîche (Use sour cream as a substitute)
1 sachet of vanilla sugar
40 g of brown sugar
Enough mirabelles to garnish 6 ramekins

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C

Pit enough mirabelles to garnish 6 ramekins to Crema Catalana.

Place in the Thermomix Bowl all remaining ingredients. Install the butterfly whisk and cook 10 minutes at 80 ° C at speed 2. Pour over the plums.

Bake in upper position for 15 minutes;

Bon appétit.

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Desserts / Mirabelle plums sorbet
« on: September 20, 2013, 06:55:14 am »
Name of Recipe: Mirabelle sorbet
Number of People: 4
Ingredients:
750 g of mirabelle plums
mirabelle plums brandy
50 g of brown sugar
1 egg white

Preparation:
Although with 3 weeks of delay, the mirabelle plums are there for my greatest pleasure. They are beautiful, SIPs of sugar, a real pleasure. I made this last night for a friend who dined at home.

A few hours before the meal, pit the Mirabelle to have about 500 g and freeze them.

At the time of the dessert:

Caramelize the remaining [/img]mirabelles in a little butter and brown sugar. Flame them at mirabelle plums brandy.

Put in your TMX, 50 g of sugar cane, process at speed 10, 10 sec. You'll get the icing sugar.

Simply add 500 g of frozen mirabelle in the TMX and process at speed 10, 50 sec. You will get something looking like a crumble. Add 1 egg white and continue speed 10 until the sorbet appears.

Put scoops of mirabelle sorbet on plates, spoon warm caramelized mirabelles.

Enjoy.

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Main Dishes / Quiche without pastry
« on: September 10, 2013, 07:32:45 am »
Name of Recipe:
Quiche without pastry
Number of People:
4 (or 2 teens...)
Ingredients:
you will need:

3 Eggs (1)
500 g of milk (2)
100 g flour
100 g of grated cheese

(1) If eggs are small use 4. One can also add 1 rounded tsp of cornstarch.
(2) Can also be a fresh cream 1/3, 2/3 milk mixture

The filling is on average between 300 and 350 g

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.

In the bowl of the TMX, pour the eggs, cream, milk, mix 10 sec S 5. Add the flour, salt and pepper, mix 20 sec S4 to obtain a dough well smooth.

In a silicone mold put first one of the fillings below and then pour the content of your TMX.

Bake ca. 30 minutes or until golden.

Fillings:

Bacon smoked/Gruyère: 150 g of bacon and 150 g of diced ham

Ham/County: 200 g of ham into small cubes, 100 g of grated big County and a pinch of nutmeg.

Bacon sales/roquefort: 200 g of salted Bacon, sprinkle 150 g of crumbled roquefort.

Tuna/herbs: divide 300 g natural tuna. Add 2 cases of chopped parsley. I often replace tuna by rest of salmon.

Smoked trout/mimolette (*): 200 g of smoked trout cut into strips, add 100 g of mimolette cut into small dice and 2 tbsps of dill, snipped.

Broccoli/small peas/parmesan: 250 g of broccoli cut in any small bouquets, 100 g of peas, 100 g grated parmesan (replaces the grated cheese), a little grated nutmeg.

Spinach, natural tuna: tuna 150 g, 150 g of frozen spinach well dried (in Thailand, I use local green leaves, it is always a discovery)

Grated carrot (100 g) and diced courgette (200 g)

Leftover chicken diced. If there is not a lot of chicken, complete with mushrooms, vegetables Macedonia...

Salmon/leeks. A little longer because you have to steam leeks in butter before.

Onions. Here too, it is a little longer because it takes time to stir-fry onions in oil/butter mixture until golden.

(*) You may replace mimolette by an old cheddar

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Vegetarian / Blinis of zucchini
« on: September 09, 2013, 03:12:42 am »
Name of Recipe:
Number of People: 6
Ingredients:
3 Zucchini (about 900 g)
2 cloves of garlic
150 g of flour
3 eggs
30 g of milk
parsley chopped
salt and pepper
Preparation:
Cut Zucchini into pieces and put them in the thermomix Bowl, then mix 5 sec./vit.5.
Put zucchini in a sieve and press with your hands in order to remove the maximum of juice.
Chop the two cloves of garlic 5 sec./vit.5, and then add the other ingredients. Mix 20 sec./vit.4.
Add the zucchini and program 20 sec./vit.3.
Cook in a hot skillet well oiled, by small quantity, 5 minutes each side.
Serve with lettuce salad.
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Yesterday was a great day. I removed Breadmaker, mixer, bulky accessories, blender, the old TM2200... and installed my brand new Thermomix. In the drawer of accessories there are no more bulky accessories but only: the spatula, the butterfly whip, the book "A table avec Thermomix", a notebook and a pencil.

My equipment is reduced now to:

- A KitchenAid mixer

- The Thermomix

Of course I played with "my precious" and I cooked up lunch with ingredients found in the cupboard and the freezer as follows:

Ingredients for 2 persons

100 g of quinoa

250 g of meat chopped and spiced for kefta

1 small onion

1 clove garlic

1 can of crushed tomatoes

Thyme

Oregano

Salt and pepper

125 g of white wine

1 jar of green beans

Rinse well the quinoa to remove the saponin.

Weigh 1 kg of hot water into the bowl of TMX, bring to boils, V3, 100 ° C. As soon as it boils, add the cooking basket filled with quinoa. Cook 10 min/100 ° C/speed 3. Store the quinoa in an insulated box.

I had chopped and spiced meat in the freezer, purchased at the Hallal butcher of the corner, remnant of a barbecue made a few months earlier. I made meat balls that I placed in the cooking basket.

In the bowl of TMX, I chopped 1 small onion and a clove of garlic, 5 sec/speed 5.

I scraped down everything with the spatula and added 2 tablespoons olive oil and then cooked 8 min/100 °C/speed 3.

I added 1 can of peeled tomatoes and a 125 g of white wine. At this time I placed the cooking basket in the bowl, closed the lid with the varoma where I had placed canned green beans and cooked at Varoma temp./speed 3 for 10 minutes.


After this time I removed the varoma and the cooking basket.


5 sec at speed 10 to properly mix the sauce.


I served the meatballs topped with sauce, accompanied by green beans and quinoa.


And as usual, I zapped the photo. I'll be obliged to cook this again just in order to shoot the photo :-)


Ah yes, did I tell you that it was really yummy ?

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Introduce Yourself / Hi, I'm Francois
« on: August 23, 2013, 10:28:26 am »
I just got my new TM31 in order to replace my old TM2200 and of course was looking for an active and friendly users forum.

What else ?

I'm French, 66 years old, sharing my time between France and Thailand where my son is living.

Francois

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