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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Vegetarian => Topic started by: Depome on March 11, 2010, 05:27:07 am
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Name of Recipe: Broccoli and Blue Cheese Pasta
Number of People: 4+
Ingredients:
800g broccoli or approx 1.5 large heads
375g wholemeal pasta
600g milk
50g plain white wheat flour
30g butter
salt and pepper
150g creamy blue veined cheese
Optional grated parmesan to serve (really nice)
Preparation:
Cut the broccoli into large florets, but small enough to fit in the Varoma. Using large florets means you're using more of the nutritious stem, which is only going to get puréed anyway... Add to the Varoma, with 600g tap water in the *: and cook on Varoma temp for 20mins on speed 2.
When the broccoli has finished, remove the Varoma from the bowl and set aside. Empty the water out of the bowl, into a large pan that you will cook the pasta in. Top that up with tap water and bring to the boil, salt, and add 375g ish of wholemeal pasta.
No need to wash or dry the bowl properly. Now add the milk, flour and butter to the *: and cook at 90 degrees for 12 minutes on speed 4.
Your pasta should be almost cooked so quickly add the broccoli to the bowl and blitz on speed 8 for 30 seconds (no heat).
Cut the cheese into about six wedges and drop them one at a time into the bowl, with the blades turning on speed 2. Now add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste (remembering that adding parmesan to serve will add a lot more salt to the flavour). You may wish to cook at 90 degrees for a further two minutes, on speed 3.
Drain the pasta and pour the sauce over the top. At this consistency it should be good to coast the pasta, without setting like custard :D
Photos: Doesn't last long enough around here, sorry!
Tips/Hints:
My DD8 hates cheese.
My DD4 loves cheese, but it getting funny about it at times. She ate some of the blue cheese straight from the packet last night and declared it horrible, as I warned her. DH and I don't like it straight, though I can tolerate it much better than he can.
Both of my girls sat at the table repeating how delicious it was! DH and I thought it was hilarious!
I do suggest you add half the cheese, then try the sauce, and add more according to your taste. Truly though, this quantity (150g) gives the broccoli sauce a bit of a flavour kick without making the sauce powerful, as blue cheese is itself.
Grate the parmesan first if you wish to add it later, or just use a peeler to drops flakes of parmesan on top to serve.
This quantity went VERY FAR last night, which surprised me. Perhaps I made more sauce than normal? First time I've done it in the TMX, with the EDC béchamel sauce for quantity guidelines, so probably did end up with more sauce. So two adults here and two children aged 8 and 4, we've ended up with two lunch-size portions left in the fridge :o I must say though, that using wholemeal pasta makes a big difference to the amount that you can eat. It is VERY filling.
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Thx Depome - on fiorst quick read I thought the pasta was going into the TM bowl and being blitzed !! Luckily I slowed down and re-read it.
Sounds like a great combo - good work.
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I've only done it that way once Mr T, the EDC minestrone. Makes it way too gluggy (starchy) for my liking, as predicted.
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This sounds lovely. Depome do you think you could do either the sauce or pasta in the TMX first and put it into the thermoserver while you did the other?
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Absolutely :)
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I can imagine this would be lovely with castello blue (a bit milder for those who hate blue cheese) :)
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Which would be me :-)) :-)) Mind you I have never eaten blue cheese in my life but once did agree to try a soup with some in because I couldn't see it and I'm sure they didn't use too much of it. It was lovely so perhaps I could try this milder castello blue one day myself.
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I love Castello cheese. I see there is a new red one. What is it, does anyone know?
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Ahhh, it's the Castello type that I use myself, I should have clarified, sorry :-(
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We had this for dinner tonight. It was lovely. I made half the mix with 200g pasta and there is heaps left. I did it all in the TMX. Cooked the broccoli and set it aside, then cooked the pasta and put into the thermoserver, and finally cooked the sauce.
Easy and tasty.
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Sounds lovely, will be making this really soon.
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:) Oh yum, will make this for dinner on the weekend.
Thank you.
Robyn
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This was yummy!! Had it tonight. Thank you, will go straight to my favourites!
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This looks delicious. Two of my favourite things. Blue cheese and broccoli. Red Castello is just a different mould I think. And quite strong. Blue Castello is the original and best in my view. I don't shy away from super stinky stilton but can eat a whole block of blue castello if no-one's looking. Much better to distribute it through a pasta that serves 6!