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Main Dishes / Chicken breasts in tomato sauce with mushrooms
« on: June 02, 2009, 03:08:01 am »
This is translated from the French cookbook "À table avec Thermomix". Note that I haven't tried this recipe, so if you do try it, please let me know how it turned out!

Chicken breasts in tomato sauce with mushrooms

4         Chicken breasts
2         Cloves of garlic
100g    Onion
240g    Whole fresh tomatoes or canned crushed
230g    Portobello mushrooms
1 cube Chicken stock
Herbs (from Provence, thyme)
Salt, pepper

• Put in the bowl the garlic, the onion cut in half, the tomatoes halved and drained. Mix 10 seconds at speed 5
• Add the mushrooms, whole chicken breasts, chicken stock cube, salt, pepper and herbs and set, depending on the size of breasts, 15 to 20 minutes at 100°, spoon speed  ^^, reverse  direction  :-:
• At timer stop, remove the chicken and arrange them on a hot serving plate. Coat them with tomato sauce and mushrooms.

Tips: Serve with fresh pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan. If sauce is too liquid, add a little cornstarch and 2 teaspoons of tomato paste and set 3 minutes at 100°, spoon speed  ^^, reverse  direction  :-:.

members' comments

cathy79 - Made this last night, DH says "a definite make again please".  I diced the chicken breasts as I just couldn't see how it would work "whole".  Used 500g chicken (2 breasts) and there was plenty of chicken.  I used MJ's passata instead of tinned tomatoes and added the tomato paste to thicken at the end.  Very nice, and super easy.

Chelsea - Mmmmmm.  This was lovely. I served it with pasta but it would also be yummy with mashed potato and steamed veg.
I used 400g diced chicken breast (3cm dice) and lots of pepper and fresh herbs.  I added the tomato paste in with the other ingredients at the start and then thickened the dish with a little cornflour paste at the end.  I cooked the mix for 6 minutes before adding the chicken and then cooked it for another 7 minutes.  I then added the cornflour paste and cooked it for a further 2 minutes.  The chicken was cooked perfectly in that time. Easy and delish!!!

CC - After CP bumped this recipe in her favourites list I thought I would give it a whirl. I followed Chelsea's "tweak" and it cooked to perfection. We all enjoyed it and I certainly would make it again.

JD - I did my own thing with this recipe tonight.  I had a pack of my Napolitana sauce in the freezer, just 100g mushrooms & 350g chicken breast.  Chopped the onion & garlic 2 sec/speed 5, added a tablespoon olive oil and sauteed 5 mins/100o/reverse/speed 1.
Added the thawed out sauce, mushrooms, 1/8th tsp Bridestowe gourmet Herbes de Provence, 3cm diced chicken, 1/2 tsp chicken stock, some pepper and 1/8th cup water. Cooked 7 mins/100o/reverse/speed 1 then added 180g baby spinach in when there was 1 minute to go.  Delicious and so quick if you use an already prepared sauce.  Enough leftover to serve with pasta tomorrow night.

Amy -  REALLY yummy, definitely a make-again recipe.


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Main Dishes / Pork Filet Mignon with Mustard Sauce
« on: June 02, 2009, 02:34:19 am »
This is translated from the French cookbook "À table avec Thermomix". Note that I haven't tried this recipe, so if you do try it, please let me know how it turned out!

Pork Filet mignon with mustard sauce

Preparation time: 5 min + Thermomix 23 min

450g                Pork tenderloin
100g                Portobello mushrooms
75g                 Dry white vermouth or Madeira
100g               Semi-skimmed milk
60g                 Onions
1 clove            Garlic (optional)
2 tsp               Classic Dijon mustard
1 tsp               Hot (English) mustard
1/2 cube         No-fat chicken stock
2 tbsp             Thick fresh cream 15%
1 bulging tbsp  Maizena (Cornstarch)
1 tsp               Salt
                      Pepper
A few sprigs of parsley for decoration

• Clean the mushrooms and cut into slices
• Cut the tenderloin into thin slices and put them in the cooking basket, alternating with slices of mushrooms
• Put in bowl: Vermouth, milk, onion, peeled and cut in half, peeled garlic, mustards, half a cube of chicken stock, salt and pepper
• Put the basket in the cooking bowl and set 20 to 25 minutes at 100 ˚, speed 4, mixing the content of the basket midway
• When the timer stops, put the pork and mushrooms aside in a warm place
• Add to the bowl the cream and Mazaina and set 3 minutes at 80 ˚, speed 4
• Serve meat and sauce, decorated with sprigs of parsley

members' comments

JD - OMG, this is amazing. My pork fillet weighed 330 g which is enough for 3 people or 2 very hungry ones!  I cut the meat into 2-1/2 cm slices and the medium sized swiss brown mushrooms into 1 cm thick slices and only cooked it for 15 minutes as pork fillet can dry out if overcooked.  I used full skim milk, not semi-skimmed but other than this, did the recipe exactly as MrSpock so kindly posted for us.  Good enough for a meal for guests for sure - pork fillet is one of my favourite cuts to work with.  The sauce is so good and with the small jugful left over, I am going to toss some steamed vegies and cooked chicken through some pasta and add this sauce.

riv mum - Loved it. I cooked it at varoma temp and steamed vegies on top so left the pork really chunky (about 2 to 3 cm wide by 5 to 7 cm long) to try and reduce overcooking and mushrooms halved. Cooked in 20 min. Could prob reduce time to 18 mins and would check after 15 mins if you want it slightly pink.
Sauce is delicious - would make it to go with corned beef!
I used apple juice instead of the vermouth and 1 tsp vegie stock concentrate instead of chicken stock cube. Was very tasty.
I used a bit over 500 g of meat which was enough or our family of 5.
Next time I might try adding honey to the sauce to make a honey mustard style sauce and use chicken instead of pork.

brazen - we ADORED, INHALED this meal!!! This is dinner party material.

MrSpock - I finally cooked the dish myself tonight. I was convinced DH would hate it but he actually liked it! Enough to be added to our regular rotation. This is a huge victory as he usually likes nothing fancy. I personally loved it. I held the salt, garlic (seemed tasty enough without) and mushrooms as Hubby hates them and would have refused to eat anything with mushrooms in it.

Chickie - This dish is so yummy. Husband loved it and its very easy to make. 5 out of 5. I used beef fillet instead because we don't like pork very much and reduced the cooking time to 16 mins, then continued to cook the sauce for the appropriate time. The beef was a combination of medium and medium rare.

jai9 - It was delicious. I will definitely be making again.







 



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Recipe Requests / Re: Thermomix International and Translation
« on: June 02, 2009, 01:39:17 am »
I think beurre blanc may be mistranslated - it is a butter sauce made with wine and shallots rather than just "white butter"
You're right, of course. I didn't know what it was and I hadn't checked the recipe. Thanks.

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Recipe Requests / Re: Thermomix International and Translation
« on: June 01, 2009, 01:28:22 pm »
I can't help with any unfortunately but I saw some interesting meals in the mains section of the above list that would interest me.  Ours are so boring in our everyday book.

Just let me know which ones you'd like, Judy, and I'll translate and post in the appropriate forums!

wow, the french meals are certainly different to the aussie!

Yes, "different" is an appropriate description *g*

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hi from New York City
« on: June 01, 2009, 04:03:39 am »
Here's the contact info for the Quebec City HQ:

Claude Perron, General Director

Nathalie Miller, Marketing Director

Importations Nobelhaus
2393 boul. Louis XIV
Québec (Québec)
Canada  G1C 1B2

Phone: 418 661-3735
Fax: 418 661-1598

Email: importationsnobelhaus@qc.aira.com

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Bonjour from Montreal, Canada
« on: June 01, 2009, 03:19:04 am »
Hi

Maybe you would prefer the Australian version of the Thermomix cookbook?  There are lots of healthy recipes in that book.

Yes, that's what I'm finding out. I'm not too excited about paying an extra $40 for a new cookbook though; not until my Thermomix is paid off on my credit card anyways!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hi from New York City
« on: June 01, 2009, 03:13:08 am »
w00t! w00t! w00t!

Finally, one more from America! Welcome! I'm from Quebec  :)

*throws confettis in the air*

Sorry you had no luck with your ice cream! Next time, try a strawberry sorbet: I use that recipe to impress company every time I have someone over, and it works every time. Let me know if the recipe is not in your book, I'll post it.

The best way to find excellent recipes is to browse this forum. Not only do you get great recipes, but you also get good feedback on those recipes, so it helps figure out if they're what you're looking for.

Funny, I was just wondering today what book I would have gotten if I had asked for an English book. Mine is French from France, and it was the only dissapointment with my Thermomix. French recipes are really unusual and don't inspire me at all.

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: June 01, 2009, 02:10:57 am »

Thanks for the recipes too

You're very welcome. I'm glad I could be contributor for a change  ;D

Tonight I made bron's Pasta alla Carbonara and it was DE-licious!

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Main Dishes / Re: Pasta alla Carbonara
« on: June 01, 2009, 01:50:03 am »
Carbonara was the first meal I tried on my Thermomix, and it was horrible. When I told Hubby that I would try again, he rolled his eyes and got the peanut butter ready. When he tried bron's Carbonara, his only words were "Print that one". Hee!

The way it turned out, I wouldn't be hesitant to serve this to company. It's great, thank you for sharing the recipe!

Forgot to say... For the other airheads like me: Don't forget that the content of the bowl is VERY HOT, so when you drop the blades, there will be hot steam coming out of the hole, and if your fingers are still there like mine were, it will hurt like hell.  :-[


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Chit Chat / Re: How to maintain a pizza stone
« on: June 01, 2009, 12:10:45 am »
I guess I'll learn, but I've had no choice to wash it in water, as food was stuck so bad there was no way I could scrape it off. I'm washing it in plain water though, just to loosen up the stuck bits.

I did also discover the wonders of a wooden paddle AND corn meal to make the pizza roll. Works like a charm, except the floor is covered with corn meal when I'm done!

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Recipe Requests / Re: Thermomix International and Translation
« on: May 31, 2009, 08:40:00 pm »
I can help to translate the index of the German TM book if that helps.

That would be awsome, vivacity!

I'm almost done with the French book. I typed the recipe list in Word, in the original language, and then I copy/pasted those in Google translation. That tool is pretty handy: for about half the recipes it returned the exact translated term, rather than a literal translation. I actually learned lots from it... I had no idea that custard was crème anglaise in French!! I'll add a few comments to clarify the more obscure recipes and I'll post.


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Recipe Requests / Thermomix International and Translation
« on: May 31, 2009, 04:06:50 pm »
Here's a suggestion that might take a bit of investment to start with, but could simplify the life of everyone here in the long run. Since we have members from all around the world, we have access to cookbooks in several different languages. For example, the basic Thermomix book is available in French, English UK version, English Australian version, German, Italian, Spanish and I'm probably missing some. From what I could figure out, not all versions have the same recipes, and it would be great to know what's available in other books. For example, maybe there's a recipe in the German book that I would love to make, but I'll never know it even existed because I can't read German to save my life. So here's what I'm proposing:

How about we take all the books that we have, and we translate the index in English and post it here? Then this thread can become a reference for recipe ideas, and we can ask for translations of specific recipes as needed.

Translating the index can be a lenghty process, so if you're up to it, I suggest you mention it here so we don't have two people working on the same book. You guys in English speaking countries might be able to find book indexes already typed out on the Net.

What do you think?

I'll start with "À table avec Thermomix", the French everyday cookbook. Let me know in this thread if you want any of those recipes translated.

Soups
Bisque de crevettes - Shrimp Bisque
Crème de champignons - Cream of Mushroom
Soupe de poisson - Fish soup
Velouté de courgettes – Cream of Zucchini
Velouté de cresson au safran et aux pétoncles Cream of Watercress with saffron and scallops
Velouté de légumes – Cream of vegetables
Velouté de tomates rapide – Quick Cream of tomato

Entrees
Asperges en sauce hollandaise - Asparagus with hollandaise sauce
Bouchées à la reine – Chicken & Mushroom canapés – I had to Google that one, as I had no idea what it was and the Google translation was, I quote “Bite the queen” BWAH!
Cake surprise – Ham & Cheese bread
Céleri rémoulade - Celery remoulade This seems to be like coleslaw, but with celeriac --> Recipe
Crudités – Finely chopped veggies
Délice de foies au Riesling – Poultry liver paté – Riesling is either a grape or a wine, I can’t tell from the recipe…
Gougères – Cheese puffs
Mousse de coquilles Saint-Jacques sauce cerfeuil – Scallop Mousse with chervil sauce
Œufs Mimosa - Mimosa Eggs
Pâté de campagne – Country Paté – Made with pork, veal, lard and Cogniac
Poireaux à la moutarde – Mustard Leek
Tartare de saumon frais – Fresh salmon tartare

Main Dishes
Épinards à la Florentine - Florentine Spinach – Spinash with hard boiled eggs, cheese and bechamel sauce
Fondue savoyarde – Cheese Fondue
Hachis Parmentier – Ground beef with mashed potatoes
Jambon au Porto - Port ham
Jardinière de légumes et sauce au jambon - Vegetable stew with ham and sauce
Lasagnes - Lasagna
Œufs brouillés - Scrambled Eggs
Pain de saumon - Salmon Loaf
Pâtes au thon - Pasta with tuna
Petit salé aux lentilles – Lentil Gammon
Pizza napolitaine - Neapolitan pizza
Poivrons farcis - Stuffed Peppers
Quiche lorraine - Quiche lorraine
Quiche sans pâte - Quiche without crust --> Recipe
Soufflé rapide Thermomix – Quick Soufflé Thermomix
Spaghettis à la bolognaise - Spaghetti bolognese

Fish and Seafood
Brandade de morue – Cod Brandade – Cod puree
Choucroute de la mer – Sauerkraut of the sea
Couscous de poisson - Fish Couscous
Dos de merlu sauce verte – Back of hake with spinash sauce
Filet de merlan en papillotes de poireaux - Fillet of whiting in leek papillotes
Filets de truite saumonée à la sauce sublime - Salmon trout fillets with cream sauce
Gambas à l’américaine – Giant Shrimps the American way
Lotte à l’armoricaine – Armorican Monkfish
Moules à la provençale – Provencal Mussel
Noix de Saint-Jacques aux poireaux - Scallops with Leeks
Poissons et tomates à la provençale - Fish and Tomatoes Provencal
Roulés de sole et fruits de mer - Sole and seafood rolls
Sardines fraîches en papillotes et leur sauce poivron – Fresh sardines in papillotes with pepper sauce
Waterzoï de poisson – Fish stew

Meat
Andouillettes au Vouvray – Tripe sausage in white wine
Boulettes de viande à la sauce aux câpres - Meatballs in caper sauce
Escalopes de veau au poivre vert - Veal scallops with green pepper
Farce pour dinde ou oie - Stuffing for turkey or goose
Farce pour légumes - Stuffing for vegetables
Farce pour viandes et volailles - Stuffing for meat and poultry
Filet mignon à la moutarde - Filet mignon with mustard sauce --> Recipe
Goulasch – Goulash
Lapins aux pruneaux - Rabbit with prunes
Pot-au-feu – Beef Stew
Ragoût de veau - Veal Stew
Steak haché à l’ail et aux fines herbes - Garlic and herbs ground beef
Steak haché à l’italienne – Italian ground beef
Steak haché Thermomix – Thermomix ground beef

Poultry
Blancs de poulet sauce tomate aux champignons - Chicken whites in tomato sauce with mushrooms --> Recipe
Cailles aux raisins et vin doux - Quails with raisins and sweet wine --> Recipe
Daube de canard au Madiran – Duck marinated in wine
Foies de volailles aux tomates – Poultry livers with tomatoes
Pot-au-feu de poulet – Chicken stew
Poulet Basquaise – Chicken with peppers, tomatoes and white wine
Roulés de blancs de poulet en robe de jambon et sauce chasseur – Rolls of chicken whites in ham dress and sauce chasseur

Vegetables
Gratin de courgettes à la provençale – Zucchini gratin Provencal
Méli-Mélo de poires, légumes d’hiver et leur sauce céleri - Mishmash of pears and winter vegetables with celery sauce
Petits pois à la française – French peas
Pommes dauphine – Fried potato puffs
Pommes papillotes pour gibier - Apples papillotes for game
Purée de carottes – Mashed carrots
Purée de pommes de terre – Mashed potatos
Ratatouille Thermomix – Vegetable stew Thermomix
Riz façon méditerranéenne – Mediterranean rice

Sauces
Aïoli marseillais – Marseille Aioli
Beurre - Butter
Beurre blanc – Hot Butter Sauce
Coulis de tomates – Tomato sauce
Fumet de poisson – Fish broth
Sauce au thon – Tuna sauce
Sauce béarnaise – Béarnaise sauce
Sauce béchamel – Béchamel sauce
Sauce hollandaise – Hollandaise sauce
Sauce mayonnaise – Mayonnaise sauce
Sauce tartare – Tartar sauce

Bread and dough
Pain brioché – Sweet roll bread
Pain de campagne – bread loaf
Pâte à choux – Choux pastry
Pâte brisée - Pastry
Pâte feuilletée – Puff Pastry
Pâte sablée – Sanded paste

Desserts
Baba au Rhum – Rum cake
Cake aux fruits confits – Dried fruit cake
Charlotte aux fruits rouges - Red fruit Charlotte
Clafoutis aux cerises – Cherry Clafoutis
Compote de pommes – Apple sauce
Confiture de framboises – Raspberry jam
Coulis de fruits rouges – Red fruits Coulis
Crème anglaise  - Custard
Crème au beurre - buttercream
Crème chantilly – Whipped cream
Crème dessert aux deux saveurs - Two flavors dessert
Crème pâtissière – Pastry cream
Crêpes – Pancakes (but thinner)
Far Breton aux pruneaux - No idea what this is, but here's a picture...
Flan au caramel - Caramel custard
Fondant au chocolat – Chocolate Fudge
Glace à la vanille – Vanilla ice cream
Îles flottantes – Floating islands
Mousse au chocolat – Chocolate mousse
Pêches rafraîchies à la menthe – Fresh peaches with mint
Quatre-quarts – Pound cake
Riz au lait - Rice pudding
Sorbet aux fruits – Fruit sorbet
Tarte aux pommes – Apple pie
Tarte meringuée au citron - Lemon Meringue Pie

Drinks
Chocolat chaud - Hot Chocolate
Granité de citron – Lemon Granita --> Recipe
Jus de fruits – Fruit juice
Milk-shake à la fraise – Strawberry milkshake
Pina Colada – Pina Colada

Index for the 'Everyday Cooking for Every Family' Cookbook (Australia)
Index for the 'Gluten Free Wheat Free' cookbook

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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
« on: May 31, 2009, 02:14:56 am »
Today I made a Cranberry-Orange bread, which almost turned bad, because I'm such a bad cook, but the recipe is good, so I posted it in the bread section. Also made plain white rice, which didn't stick or overflow  :D

I also posted the lemon granité recipe in the dessert section, and I just might make myself a batch before the day is over!

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Desserts / Lemon Granité
« on: May 31, 2009, 02:08:01 am »
Lemon Granité

Translated from the "À table avec Thermomix" cookbook.

5              Lemons
300g        Water
200g        Sugar
800g        Ice

  • Wash the lemons carefully. Cut 3 lemons in 8 parts, without peeling them. Remove pits.
  • Peel the reminding lemons and also cut in 8 and remove pits.
  • Put 300g of water and the lemons in the bowl and mix 12 sec at speed 10.
  • Filter the liquid in a salad bowl with the help of the cooking basket, scraping the bowl with the spatula. Rince the bowl.
  • Put the liquid back in the bowl, and add the sugar and ice. Mix 13 sec at speed 6.
  • Serve immediately in cocktail glasses or individual dessert bowl.


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Bread / Cranberry-orange Bread
« on: May 31, 2009, 01:14:25 am »
My local grocery store sells this FABULOUS cranberry-orange bread, and I was hoping to make my own. Unfortunately, all the recipes I could find were more like a cake than a bread, so I had to improvise.

I started with a raisin bread recipe published on a French Blog which originally came from the French Thermomix book "Mille et une pâtes...à pain".

Chookie has suggested increasing the water to 230g and the yeast to 10g .

Preparation time : 15 min + Thermomix : 4 min + Rise : 30 min + Oven cooking : 30 min

Total time : 1 h 19 min

200g           Water
1 packet      Baker's yeast
400g           White Flour
50g             Sugar
1/2 tea sp    Salt
1                Peel of 1 orange, grated
125g           Dried Cranberries

Grate the peel off of one big orange with a box cheese grater, using coarser blade. Make sure you only grate the orange skin, and not the white part as it is too bitter. Reserve.

Put the water and yeast in the bowl, and set 2 min / 37° / speed 3.

Add all the other ingredients except the orange and the cranberries. Set 2 min at Dough/Knead  ::

Add the orange peel and the cranberries, and mix 20 sec / reverse / speed 4.

Form the dough into a roll, and place in a floured pan. Slightly push in cranberries with a knife so they don't burn when cooking.

Put in oven 30 minutes at 60° C to raise the dough.

Cook in oven 30 minutes at 200° C

For the original Raisin Bread recipe, replace the orange peel and the cranberries by 150 g of raisins. But trust me, the Cran-orange bread is the best fruit bread you'll ever have  ;)

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