BEAN GOULASH

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

•   100 g black-eyed beans )
•   100 g aduki beans           ) soaked overnight (or use 3 cans assorted beans)
•   1 tbsp oil
•   2 garlic cloves,  peeled
•   1 onion, quartered
•   1 yellow pepper, seeded and chopped roughly
•   2 tsp caraway seeds
•   1 tbsp paprika (or more to taste)
•   Pinch sugar
•   1 tsp vinegar
•   1 can chopped tomatoes
•   200 g mushrooms, thickly sliced
•   4 tbsp natural yoghurt
•   Chopped parsley for garnish

Method:

   Drain beans, rinse and cover with cold water.  Bring to the boil and simmer for about 45 minutes, or until tender.   (This can be done in the Thermomix at 100, speed spoon)

   Add onion, garlic and oil to Thermomix and  chop on 5 for 5 seconds.  Scrape down sides of bowl with spatula and  cook on Varoma , speed 2 for 3 minutes.  

   Add paprika and caraways seeds  and cook on Varoma, speed 2 for 2 minutes,  

   Add tinned tomatoes, mushrooms, sugar and vinegar.

   Cook for 4 minutes , 100, speed 2  

        Drain beans and add them to the bowl.   Cook for 3 minutes, 100, speed 2  

   Stir in half the yoghurt, and  season with salt and pepper to taste.

   Serve, garnished with rest of yoghourt and chopped parsley and brown rice if required

Comments
This hasn't been tested in the TMX as my kitchen is out of action at the moment, but is posted as a response from someone wanting an aduki bean recipe.    Feedback would be welcome, negative as well as positive !

Cathy63: I soaked my beans overnight, and cooked for about 35 minutes.  They were a little tough still, but thought that they might cook more at the end.  Also, I cooked them in the morning and had them in the fridge all day until I made dinner.  So they were quite hard when I put them in the goulash to reheat.  So I wouldn't suggest doing it that way.

Tebsaile: Soaked black beans need between 1h and 1h 30 min. I would cook these in the basket and add after 30 min the adzuki beans.

Katya: The beans I used were black-eyed beans rather than black beans.... 45 minutes cooking was fine for them.

ozzy-dj: I have cooked chickpeas to use for humis and found they cook faster in the TMX than on the stove. My first try were a bit overcooked even when I shortened the time for my first look. Last night I wanted black beans and added them to brown rice cooked in the basket while the varoma cooked something else. I soaked the rice and the black beans in hot water about 45 minutes then in the TMX only 20 minutes and the beans were great. Made an interesting contrast with the brown rice.
I have found beans if soaked first, cook in the TMX about inbetween pressurcooker and stove top times.

Name of Recipe:
TOMATO SALSA


Number of People:...4 - 6

Ingredients:

1 red onion, quartered
1 large red chilli, deseeded
1 teaspoon olive oil
3 large vine tomatoes, quartered
juice and zest of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Large handful of coriander leaves
1/2 tsp dried oregano (or 1 tsp fresh)
Large pinch of salt
 

Preparation

Place onion and chilli and olive oil in TMX and chop at speed 5 for about 7 seconds until finely chopped.  Scrape down side of bowl and cook at 100, speed  2 for 4 minutes.

Leave onion mixture to cool and then add the rest of the ingredients and chop at speed 5 for a few seconds until everything is chopped but still chunky.

Put in a bowl and leave for a while so the flavours amalgamate.

Taste and add more salt if necessary.
 

Name of Recipe:  Creme Fraiche Tartare Sauce

Number of People:  4-6

Ingredients:
    * 1 egg yolk
    * 1 tsp Dijon Mustard
    * pinch of sea salt
    * few drops of Tabasco
    * 3-4 tbsp Crθme fraξche (can be reduced fat)
    * 2 tsp tarragon vinegar
    * 1 tsp tarragon
    * 1 heaped tbsp flat leaf Parsley,
    * 1 tsp Chives, chopped
    * 1 tbsp capers, rinsed
    * 1 tbsp cornichons

Preparation:

Chop tarragon, parsley, chives, capers and cornichons at speed 6 for 5 seconds or until very finely chopped

Add rest of ingredients except vinegar and butterfly mix for 15 seconds speed 3.

Add vinegar and mix for a few more seconds

Taste and add seasoning if required - maybe a dash of lemon juice.
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Tips/Hints:

Adapted  from this recipe http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/513892

I've finally posted my first recipe  (Jerusalem artichoke soup)....  It's only taken me about 6 months but it makes me feel much less guilty about using everyone's recipes on here

Recipe Name:  Mediterrannean seafood rice with Chorizo

Book Name:     Full Steam Ahead

Tweaking details:  Cooked the rice for about 5 minutes longer than specified as I used paella rice.  (If I did it again, I would cut down on the cooking time for the peppers, chorizo and squid to compensate).   Also added a teaspoon of lemon juice at the end.

Review:

A very tasty recipe.  Next time I would not steam the mussels for as long as is suggested in the recipe (a total of 36 minutes!) and also would cut the squid into different shaped bits as the squid rings got caught around the blades.   

Score: (out of 5*)  4

I cannot praise John and Janie from Thermomix  UK highly enough.

My machine had developed a crack in its frame and I reported it, assuming that I would be facing a massive repair bil and would have to be without the machine for agesl.   

Yesterday evening John and Janie (together with their adorable guide-dog trainee Zoro, although our cat didn't quite feel the same about him) came through here on their way to some demos in Leeds and John fixed the machine for me in my kitchen by putting on a replacement frame and, what's more, didn't charge a penny for doing so 

They are so helpful and friendly and enthusiastic, I just felt I had to give them a hearty cheer on here. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN & JANIE !!!!   

This morning I was comparing how little input the TMX requires as compared to OH's (other half's) all singing, all dancing coffee machine which is forever telling us to fill water, fill beans, clean tray, clean machine....   I ended up mimicking the sound the TMX makes when it finishes doing something and OH said it would be good if we could download a tune to replace it, like one does for telephone ring tones.

So  I then wondered what else I would want to change in the TMX if ever a new model was developed and I thought of...

- improvement to lid so it doesn't drip over the machine when you open it

- something to stop finely ground stuff (eg icing sugar, spices) escaping  (I do know about the kitchen towel trick and it is brilliant)

- a message to tell you that you can't knead or turbo if the setting is not a lid closed

- a better spatula

Don't get me wrong, I think the machine is absolutely fantastic but there's always room for improvement.

Has anyone got any other suggestions?