Prawn curry with Rice - one pot meal!

My prawn curry, kind of a tandoori style sauce with rice. We had it for dinner tonight, kids loved the rice!

2 onions, 3 garlic cloves, 2 small dried chillis, 2cm ginger, 5 tomatoes into bowl, chop 3 seconds on speed 6. Scrape down sides.

Add 10ml oil, sauté 3 min on speed 2, temp 100.

Add 1T tomato paste, 2t tumeric, 3t cumin, 2t ground coriander, 1t TMX garam marsala, 4 cardamon pods, 2 cloves and 100ml water.

Pour 200g rice into your steamer basket and rinse. Put basket into bowl.

Into Varoma place 500g peeled raw prawns.

Cook 22 minutes, speed 2, Varoma.

Once done, take out rice basket and pour 20ml cream into bowl. Turn slowly to speed 9 for 1 minute.

Serve prawns on rice and pour over sauce, garnish with coriander.

Cheese and bacon pull apart and scrolls

DD loved these, and how handy are they for after school or lunch boxes!

put 300g warm water and a sachet of yeast into jug and tip 520g bakers flour on top. Add a pinch of salt and sugar along with 20g oil. Mis on speed 4 for 5 seconds. Knead for 2 minutes. Remove from jug and leave it to rise in your thermomat or an oiled bowl covered with a tea towel. Once it's doubled in size, roll out in two lots. Each square should be about 20cm x 30cm. Cover this with your toppings, limited only by your imagination with this one!

Cut into 2cm lengths then concertina the lengths, like you're making a fan. I press my toppings into the dough otherwise it goes everywhere.  Place them cut side up next to each other in a cake tin and bake for about 30 minutes on 200 degrees.  Watch it carefully towards the end and sprinkle more cheese on top if you like.  Makes about twice the size as a Bakers Delight pull apart for half the cost. Nice work, Thermomix.

And the sauce.... with steak.... mmmmm

DH loves this. And again with the figs, he is lucky that some figs even made it home. They are just yummy this time of year and where we live they are for sale at road side fruit and veggie stalls.  I want to plant a fig tree in the new house!

Chicken from the new menu

Just as good as the salmon!!

New demo menu!

We have a new menu for our basic demos! I won't give away the recipe but here's a pic of the salmon, sooooo nice!  I have been making the sauce on it's own and using it for everything from eggs benedict to steak.

Smoked Salmon Quiche

Chop 2 spring onions and a garlic clove, speed 6 for 4 seconds. Add 8 eggs, salt and pepper to taste and a dash of milk and stir for 5 seconds on speed 4. Pour into a round silicone mould that fits in your varoma and add some sliced cherry tomatoes, then steam for 20 minutes.  You could also cook this in the oven, add cheese, herbs, ham, whatever you like, or use small silicone cup cake moulds for individual quiches.  Top with the smoked salmon and capers once set. 

Mini lemon meringue

Melt 50g butter in your jug, 37 degrees for about 2 minutes. Remove from jug and put a packet of Butternut Snap biscuits in. Crush on speed 7 for 5 seconds and pour butter back in.  Mix together for about 3-4 seconds. Press in to patty cases in a muffin tray. You could also just use the biscuits by themselves, just put them in patty cases and cook in the oven on 180  until hey melt slightly and take the shape of the patty case. 

The lemon curd I used in this recipe was from the book For Food's Sake and the meringue is from the EDC.  With the meringue, make it then spoon on to a tray and cook until it goes golden brown. Let it cool before handling. Simply put the lemon curd on top of your bases once they're set then place meringue on top.