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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: brazen20au on September 15, 2010, 10:01:39 am
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Hi all, long time no see :D (and no, i'm not really back yet lol)
part of my new job requires me to research how to cook healthily on a budget and i even get to blog surf 8) anyway it inspired me to post this new challenge (ok, it's taken me about 3 weeks to get here to do it but anyway.... lol)
come up with any many ideas or links as you can for recipes that use 4 ingredients or less. bonus points for each 'whole' food you use rather than a processed food (interpret this how you will ;))
good luck and have fun!
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A great challenge Karen - thanks! You're new job sounds great. :)
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Karen, that is certainly some challenge. Hope you enjoy your new job.
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4 ingrediants cookbooks will sort you out................!
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4 ingrediants cookbooks will sort you out................!
You would think so but I find a lot of their recipes are lacking in the wholesome or "whole food" department. :)
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I think that a lot of the recipes in the 3 and 4 ingredients books have a tin of this or packet of that. The challenge will be to make tasty dishes from whole foods. Pizza is starting to look good ;D ;D ;D
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Yes, I was very disappointed with the 4 ingredients cookbooks - hardly anything in there I'd cook, as lot of tinned or packet stuff.
So how many recipes can we contribute, Karen? ;D
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Do we get a commission for helping do your work ??? :-* :-* :-* :-* Put my thinking cap on.
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I saw in Big W the '4 Ingredients' series has a new book out called: '4 Ingredients: Fast, Fresh & Healthy.' They've teamed up with Deepak Chopra to create nutrient rich recipes. It might give you some ideas.
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Welcome SimplyBeing, have fun here - thanks for the heads up on yet another possible book for the shelves :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Welcome to the forum SimplyBeing.
Yippee, I think I've found my recipe. Just have to give it a test run over the weekend. Karen what do you want us to do? Post them here, or in the appropriate section noting that they only have 4 ingredients?
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I saw in Big W the '4 Ingredients' series has a new book out called: '4 Ingredients: Fast, Fresh & Healthy.' They've teamed up with Deepak Chopra to create nutrient rich recipes. It might give you some ideas.
My Hubby bought this book for me recently. The recipes certainly seem healthy, but in my opinion not very appealing or creative. :(
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Thanks for the welcome Thermomixer and Cookie1 :)
Chelsea - shame you haven't found the book very useful. The book might be more suited to people who don't have a lot of experience cooking healthy meals. Will be interesting to see what forum members come up with :D
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Welcome Simplybeing, hope you enjoy the Forum.
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:) Hi, I have the book 4 Ingredients no. 2, with a red cover.
i never use it though.
Robyn
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I have 3 of them - I always get one or two good recipes out of them (muffins/date dip - to die for) that are worth the price. And they are great for lending to people who can't cook.
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share as many as you like jo!!
i just bought the 'fast fresh and healthy' book for work - and i do own the gluten free one (but have never used it lol) i refused to buy the others as they were so full of processed stuff.
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OK a few ideas of the top of my head:
Let me know if you are interested in them being made into proper recipes (fleshed them out a little after initial ideas but not quite a recipe), do salt and pepper count as ingredients?
soup can think of a number of ideas.
All start with decent stock - but some of the packaged campbells type ones would do
e.g
1 lt chicken stock
add 4-6 potatoes and
2 leeks and
1/2 a chili finely chopped or 1/8 tsp of chilli flakes.
cook until potatoes tender and blend.
for variations - could use pepper instead of chilli
or for a milder version cream instead of chili (add the cream after blending)
for different flavours, use cabbage, brocolli or another vegetable instead of leek.
Lemon fish (insert variety??) with potato wedges and steamed carrots.
Place fish fillets topped with a slice of lemon in foil and make into a parcel
Peal potatoes and cut into wedges and parboil
Place seasoned wedges (or is that another ingredient??) and fish packages into the oven and cook.
Serve with steamed carrots .
Could do similar to the above but with chicken or fish and different flavourings - herbs, apricot, orange, curry paste (ok so these aren't whole foods) and could do rice or cous cous or different veg.
(can come up with hundreds of varieations, lol).
Prawns, cous cous and courgette
Cook or heat prawns (depending if pre-cooked or not) in a frying pan.
In a saucepan heat water and olive oil (hope water doesn't count as an ingredient!) and add cous cous. Put lid on and leave 5 mins to cook.
Meanwhile steam courgette (or whatever veg of choosing).
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How about Essene bread? It only has one ingredient :D
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3558.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3558.0)
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Isi's Portuguese Rolls can be done with 4 ingredients (leave out the salt, its a sweeter bread but just beautiful). I have been chain-making these the last few days!
cottchick
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Hi,
Looking for a 5 -4 ingredients or less recipe.... I just posted this in awhile ago. :)
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4707.0
Hope you'll like it. :)
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I agree about the 4 ingredient cookbooks. They are probably a good starting point for people who don't like to cook or who are time poor. I was horrified at all the processed foods! Even the 'healthy' cookbook didn't appeal to me.
Anyway, variety is the key to good health and I remember reading that we should have at least 30 different foods a day for good allround health! :)
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I gave my 4 ingredient cookbook away. Didn't like all the processed stuff. Felt like it was cheating really.
I like making from scratch, not packets!
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Better for us too Jodi and with the TMX it is so easy.
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here's a great blog with 4 ingredient recipes ripe for conversion ;)
http://thestonesoup.com/blog/
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I was disapointed with the 4 ingredients books, too. I think I have the original one and the healthy one. I tried the creamy chicken/sundried tomato recipe and found it lacking in flavour so needed to add herbs or chilli or something but then that was more than 4 ingredients but then by adding rice or pasta makes it more than 4 ingredients.
My creamy garlic prawns recipe only has 4 ingredients. I am just in the process of getting my head around how to "do it" in the TMX. The ingredients are butter, garlic, prawns and cream. Chop garlic in TMX then saute in butter, add prawns and then cream -- haven't worked out times and I don't weigh or count ingredients, I just go by 'feel', sorry probably not much help. I also sometimes add a chilli or two but that makes it a 5 ingredient dish.
And then you serve it with rice, too so another ingredient.
I'm useless at this, sorry
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I have a great Mushroom Soup that has 3 main ingredients and then salt and pepper to taste.
500g mushrooms, trimmed
150g rice, uncooked
1 liter veggie stock
salt and pepper to taste.
Add the mushrooms, rice and stock to the TM bowl. Cook at 15 minutes/100 deg/speed 2.
Slowly and carefully raise the speed to 8 until the soup is pureed smooth.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serves 4. Yum.
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Couldn't get anything easier than that Kuwait Cook - must try it.
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I'm trying that soup. My kids aren't into mushrooms but definately love soup. It sounds so easy. My type of soup.
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panelle siciliane uses only 3 ingredients (not counting salt and oil to fry)
Chick Peas, water and pasley
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The 4 ingredients books never seem healthy to me because of all the processed ingredients used. I make the pumpkin soup from the EDC all the time using just onion, butternut pumpkin, stock and water. Sometimes adding seasoning depending on my stock.
I also do a similar on with cauliflower, stock, water and a tsp of curry powder.
Will get my thinking cap on for more recipes.Great challenge!
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This isn't a current challenge Food 4 Thought but by all means add your ideas to it and keep it going.
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I did purchase a year or so ago the Australian Women's Weekly Take 4 INGREDIENTS and it is far better than those other ones. Even their television programme didn't appeal to me when I saw it one foxtel a few years ago. Nothing creative or stylish about opening two packets and a can at all.... Who wants to star on a Thermomix cooking show with me? I promise that it would be a laugh a minute and we would sell squillions of Thermomixes ...
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I can do the laughing whilst you do all the talking and cooking Lee ;D
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Oh Judy, wouldn't we have a lovely time? Everyone would watch us and we would sell so many Thermomixes and then we could move to the Barhamas and hide all our money from the tax man...
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;D
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You have a very active mind Lee but it doesn't hurt to dream ;D
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Leesmac78, I was watching the Donna Hay cooking show and was thinking how great it would be if there was a TMX show maybe should pitch it to a network. If Huey can have his own show surely you can have one.
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Absolutely lee and Judy, it would' be great, much better than huey
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We could all come along for guest appearances.
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Nice quick recipe Millipede. Thanks for that.
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:) A thermomix show would be great. Why don't they do one, and put it on lifestyle food.
Just think of all the sales from that.
Robyn
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Book publishing today (in the mix), tomorrow the food channel. The sky is the limit for TMX'ers.
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Tried Millipede's recipe for Tuna Pasta. I made it as a pasta bake added garlic and put some grated cheese on top before putting in the oven. Very Yummy.
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Interesting recipe MJ - simple things are often the best. Thanks for sharing that with us, something the grand-kids would like and my tuna loving DD1 with no kids.
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TMX cooking show.... what an idea. Just letting you know that I will not be appearing on it. I am a more behind the scenes kind a girl unlike my actress SIL.
We could have different celeb chefs appearing each week and have them convert and cook their fav recipes. Oh the possibilities :D
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I think whoever does the first TMX cooking show will do well with their cookbook and other things like aprons etc. I wonder if Poh is interested?
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Hommus dip: chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon juice
Beetroot dip: beetroot, parmesan, cashews
Mash potatoes
..Lots of healthy 4ish ingredient dip recipes. Not so much for main meals though.
Grilled chicken and roast vegies
Dukkah encrusted lamb chops with roast vegies.. not on the cheap side though
Homemade jam: fruit, agar agar, rapadura sugar
A boring chicken ball recipe: chicken mince, breadcrumbs, peanut butter, egg
Peanut Butter: peanuts, oil
Simple LTMS: puffed rice, marshmallows. Or Puffed rice with butter, honey, sugar.
Crumbed chicken
Fish fingers
CADA
Coleslaw: cabbage, carrot, onion, mayo, apple
Hope that helps
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Paperfreak, these chicken balls don't sound boring at all.
Do you have some weights for this recipe?
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HI I have several large tins of peaches in the pantry - dont know why I even bought them!!! I have been inspired by fellow TMXs using up things in the pantry.. Any ideas on a desert/cake/slice with peaches?
thanks
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Hi GHM, I made this beautiful pear and ginger pudding using tinned pears, and I think peaches would work really well in it too :)
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3648.0 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3648.0)
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GHM, Trudy's Peaches and Cream Dessert (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6674.0) is really lovely. It makes a huge dessert.
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thanks Amy and JD I think I may try both! 😄
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There's no reason why not GHM ;) ;D
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I found a recipe in the latest coles pamphlet for an upside down cake GHM.
I'm going to use my tinned peaches up on that.
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Sounds nice mcmich let us know how it turns out. I am definitely going to try the peaches and cream desert and after tonight's forum reading now want to try the tapioca pudding.
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i havnt made this yet but i will soon
1 very large or 2 small sweet potatoes, baked until soft and skin removed
4 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon (a pinch of nutmeg is nice too if you like it)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Blend sweet potatoes, eggs, and cinnamon until smooth. Pour into greased pie plate and bake for 25-30 minutes or until center is firm and top begins to brown lightly
9″ pie plate, which is about 1.25″ deep
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Sounds good, nice twist on baked sweet potato. Let us know how it goes, I would like to try that with a baked dinner for a change. :)
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Ooooh, that does sound good Uni :D What sort of dinner would you serve it with?
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no idea amy, like Mich said a baked dinner maybe
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I think it would go nicely with some baked chicken pieces coated in Moroccan seasoning :)
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baking the sweet potato pie now, will post pic if nice :-))
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If its not nice, post a pic in the Ooops photos thread ;D
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good thinking bella
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Guessing it would sort of be like the sweet pumpkin dishes American's make?
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frank not 2 keen, but the girls like it
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Looks lovely Uni. :D
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Main meals with 4 ingredients - I've got plenty of them, being a FAILSAFER & only eating organic in season, am usually pretty limited for variety on fresh veges. Hubby's not FAILSAFE though so have to be creative & make up yummy recipes.
Tonight's was shephard's pie.
Fried 3 cloves garlic & 3-4 sticks of chopped celery, added 1kg mince & browned. (I didn't count the oil & pinch of salt as ingredients).
Put mashed potato on top. (you can make with milk or water. I don't count water & butter as ingredients).
Bake for 10 min so the top potato layer crisps up a bit.
4 ingredients - nom nom.
Most people have a bit of tomato sauce or paste in pantry - you could throw in a bit of that in the mince if you want. I don't, cause it's not FAILSAFE.
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How about:
Grilled cheesy polenta (shaped to preference)
Cracked black pepper crusted tuna steak
with a salad and salsa (spicy) or lyutenitsa (not spicy)
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frank not 2 keen, but the girls like it
This is a regular here. We all love it.
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If its not nice, post a pic in the Ooops photos thread ;D
There's an ooops photo thread? I missed that one.