Thermomix Fried BeeHoon (Rice Noodles/Vermicelli)

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 clove of garlic (peeled)
2. 60gm sunflower oil
3. 100gm taugeh (bean sprouts)
4. 100gm carrot (grated)
5. 500gm minced chicken (seasoned with sea-salt, oil and potato starch)
6. Pepper (optional)
7. 500gm of bee hoon
8. 300gm of hot water
9. Sea-salt
10. TMX chicken powder seasoning

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1. Place carrots into TMX jug. Cover with lid and MC. Set 5seconds/speed 5.

2. Scrape down the grated carrot from sides of TMX jug. Add the garlic and oil.

3. Set 5mins/Varoma/Reverse spoon.

4. Meanwhile soak the beehoon. After the beehoon is softened, drain the water away. Set beehoon aside.

5. Add the minced chicken and set 10 mins/Varoma/Reverse spoon. At about 6 minutes, add the taugeh (beansprouts) through the hole in the lid. Replace the MC on the lid.

6. Next, add the TMX chicken powder seasoning, sea-salt, pepper (optional), beehoon and hot water.

7. Set 5 minutes/Varoma/Reverse spoon.

8. Use the spatula to mix it thoroughly.

9. Pour onto serving dish. Serve hot.

Bon appetit!

Pressure Cooker Beef Stew

Ingredients:

1. 500gm beef (cut into chunks)
2. 5 to 6 potatoes (peeled and cut into chunks)
3. 3 carrots (peeled and cut into about same size as potatoes)
4. Sea-salt
5. Coconut nectar/maple syrup
6. Cooking oil
7. 500ml water
8. Tapioca/Potato starch
9. Pepper (optional)

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1. Place all ingredients above into pressure cooker pot and cook for 1/2 hour.

2. Serve hot with rice.

Bon appetit!

Thermomix Beef Broth

Ingredients:

1. 300gm washed beef (parts for boiling stock)
2. 1 large potato (skin removed and cut into 6 parts)
3. 1 large carrot (skin removed and cut into 6 parts)
4. 2 stalks of chives (spring onion) cut into 2 cm in length (use only the dark green part)
5. A bunch of celery leaves
6. Sea-salt
7. Pepper (optional)
8. 1.8L water

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1. Place all ingredients into TMX basket. Fill water to the level slightly lower than the word 'MAX'.

 2. Set 2hrs/90C/Speed 1.

3. Once it is done, remove the basket using the spatula.

 4. You can eat the beef parts and the carrots.

Bon appetit!

Pressure Cooker Chicken Stew

1. 1 whole free-range chicken (cut into 8 parts)
2. 4 potatoes (skin removed and cut into 4 parts)
3. 3 carrots (peeled and cut into 4 parts)
4. Spring onion (dark green parts) (cut into 3cm length)
5. Sea-salt
6. Corn-starch (OR potato/tapioca starch)
7. 1 1/2 cup water
8. 1 tablespoon oil
9. Sugar (optional)
10. White pepper (optional)

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1. Place all ingredients into pressure cooker and set 30 minutes.

2. Once it is done, pour into huge serving bowl.

3. Serve hot with rice or noodles.

Bon appetit!

Thermomix Stir Fried Celery with Carrot & Prawns

Ingredients:

1. 3 celery sticks (peeled and cut into 3cm in length)
2. 1 carrot (peeled and sliced into thin slices)
3. 3 garlic bulbs
4. 500gm of prawns (de shelled but the tails are left intact)
5. Sunflower oil
6. Sea-salt

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1. Place the garlic inside the TMX jug.

2. Set 5seconds/Speed 5/Reverse.

3. Remove all the garlic skin. With a spatula, scrape down the insides on the jug.

4. Pour some sunflower oil into the jug.

5. Set 5 minutes/Varoma/Reverse/Spoon. (Remove the MC)

6. Add the celery and carrots.

7. Set 8 minutes/Varoma/Reverse/Spoon. (Remove the MC)

8. At about 5 minutes, remove the MC. Add the prawns through the hole in the lid. (The TMX is still cooking. Do not stop it.)

9. Sprinkle some sea-salt. Cover the lid with the MC.

10. Once it is done, scoop it up.

11. Serve it hot.

Bon appetit!

*Since prawns are high in histamines (or you're allergic to prawns), you can use chicken breasts instead.

Thermomix ABC Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 free-range chicken (cut into 4 to 5 parts)
2. 6 potatoes (skin peeled and cut into half)
3. 2 medium sized carrots (skin peeled and cut into 4 parts)
4. 1 big onion (outer layer removed and cut into half)
5. 5 garlic cloves (outer layer removed)
6. Sunflower oil
7. Sea-salt
8. Filtered water
9. Corn starch
10. Tamari sauce

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1. Place the garlic into the TMX jug.

2. Drizzle some sunflower oil.

3. Set 5 minutes/Varoma/Reverse/Spoon. Remove the MC (mixing cup).

4. While the garlic is being stir-fried by the TMX, prepare the sauce in a small bowl. Add the cornstarch, sea-salt, tamari sauce, and water into the bowl and mix well.

5. Once the garlic is done, add the chicken parts, potatoes, carrots and big onions.

6. Pour in the sauce mixture.

7. Set to 16 minutes/Varoma/Reverse/Spoon. Cover with the MC (mixing cup).

8. If it's not cooked, you can add another 5 minutes or until it is throughly cooked. Pour into serving dish once it is done. Serve hot.

Bon appétit!

Thermomix Purple-Carrot Bread

Ingredients:

1. 85gm purple carrot (skin peeled)

2. 200gm water
3. 400gm organic high-protein strong bread flour
4. 30gm oil
5. 1/2 teaspoon yeast
6. A pinch of salt
7. 1 teaspoon of sugar
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1. Place carrot into TMX jug and set 10seconds/speed 6.

2. Scrape down the sides of the jug.

3. Add 200gm of water and set turbo 2 seconds.

4. Add the sugar and the yeast.

5. Set 2mins/37C/Speed 1.

6. Add 400gm flour, salt and oil.

7. Knead for 3 minutes.

8. Set aside and allow it to rise/double in size. (*Wet your hands when handling dough.)

9. Line a loaf tin with baking paper. Knock the dough down and place the dough into the baking tin and allow it to rise again.

10. Preheat oven to 180C.

11. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

12. Set aside to cool before serving.

Bon appetit!

Thermomix Mixed Juice

Ingredients:

1. 2 Red Delicious apples (skin removed)
2. 2 medium sized carrots (peeled)
3. 4 sticks of celery (peeled and cut into half)
4. 1 litre of filtered water

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1. Place all ingredients into the Thermomix jug and set to 30 seconds/speed 10. (If it is still too thick, you may add a bit more water and then set 10 seconds/speed 10 again.

2. Pour into mugs and serve immediately.

Bon appétit!

Baked Stuffed Potato Skins with Fried Rice

Ingredients:

1. 10 medium sized old potatoes (wash outer layer with vegetable brush thoroughly and then dried thoroughly)
2. 200gm of minced chicken (seasoned with sea-salt)
3. 2 cups of cooked sushi rice
4. 1 medium sized carrot (outer layer peeled and sliced into thin sticks)
5. *1 medium sized broccoli (washed and florets cut into small parts) [If you are on low-salicylate diet, replace this with another vegetable of your choice which you are able to tolerate.]
6. Sea-salt
7. Sunflower oil
8. 2 cloves of garlic (sliced thinly)

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1. Preheat oven to 220C.

2. Prick all the potatoes with a fork. (If not they'll be atomic bombs in the oven!)

3. Place all the potatoes on a baking tray and bake for approximately 40 minutes or until the potatoes become tender and soft.

4. Cut off about a quarter of the potatoes and scoop out the insides while leaving the skin intact.

5. Set the potatoes aside.

6. Heat a wok on high heat.

7. Drizzle some sunflower oil onto the wok.

8. Throw in the thinly sliced garlic.

9. Stir fry until golden brown.

10. Add the minced chicken, carrot, broccoli,

11. Stir fry until all are cooked.

12. Add the rice and potatoes that were scooped up.

13. Mix everything thoroughly.

14. Scoop the rice mixture and fill up the potato skins.

15. Pre-heat oven at 200C.

16. Arrange them on a baking tray and bake for about 15 minutes.

17. Allow to slightly cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

Yellow Eel ABC Soup

Ingredients:

1. 4 thick slices of yellow eel

This is how the eel looks like.

2. Carcass of one chicken
3. 3 large potatoes (skin peeled and cut into 4 parts)
4. 2 large carrots (skin peeled and cut into half)
5. Filtered water
6. Sea-salt

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1. Put all ingredients above in a large pot and fill it with the filtered water until everything is submerged.

2. Bring the water to a boil and then simmer for two hours.

3. Serve it hot.

*Note: The fish monger told me that this eel is good for people with skin problems. It has a lot of bones and is used for boiling soup. It was so sweet and delicious.

Stir-Fried Garlic Chicken with Celery & Carrots

Ingredients:

1. 1 chicken breast (cut into small pieces - seasoned with sea-salt and garlic)
2. 3 celery sticks (peeled and cut into french fry size)
3. 2 carrots (outer layer peeled and cut into thin strips around the same size as the celery)
4. 5 garlic bulbs
5. Sunflower oil
6. Sea-salt

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1. Heat up a wok.

2. Drizzle some sunflower oil into the wok.

3. Add the garlic bulbs and stir fry until fragrant.

4. Add the chicken, celery and carrots and a dash of sea-salt and stir fry until the chicken is cooked and the vegetables have softened.

5. Scoop up onto serving dish and serve hot with rice.

Bon appétit!

Christmas 2014 (Part Five): The Feast!

From top (clockwise):

Salted, butter giant prawns, The Feast, baked butter corn, stir fried broccoli with carrots and baby corn, fu chok and bitter gourd chicken soup, the prawns, baked potatoes, char siew pork, Empress chicken & turkey (which was bought).

I didn't have any turkey.

Yang Chow Fried Rice

The Yang Chow fried rice was invented by Yi Bingshou (1754 - 1815) during the Qing dynasty in China. The dish is given such a name as Yi was once the regional magistrate of the city of Yangzhou. Though there are many versions of the Yang Chow fried rice, but the staple items are cooked rice (which is preferably one day old rice), cooked shrimp, spring onions, fresh vegetable (peas, corn, carrots, bamboo shoots) and eggs. Many people add ham or char siew pork to their Yang Chow fried rice.

Below is my salicylate-tolerable-version of the Yang Chow fried rice.

Ingredients:

1. 4 cups of cooked white rice (cooked, kept in freezer overnight and thawed the next day)
2. 2 large eggs (beaten)
3. 200gm of fish cake (for recipe, click on LINK) (cut into small pieces)
4. 200gm of prawns (cut into small pieces and seasoned with sea-salt and some sunflower oil)
5. 1/2 bulb of garlic (sliced into thin pieces)
6. 2 carrots (cut into cubes)
7. 1 cup of green peas

I bought a packet of dried garden peas from the organic shop. I had to soak it for about 18 hours to get it to soften. And then I had to boil it for 2 hours. But they were yummy. 

8. 2 stalks of spring onion (chopped into fine pieces)
9. Sea-salt
10. Sunflower oil

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1. Heat a wok.

2. Add three tablespoons of sunflower oil into heated wok.

3. Once oil is heated, add the sliced garlic and stir fry until it is slightly browned.

4. Add the fish cake, carrots and peas and stir fry until carrots and peas soften slightly.

5. Add the prawns and fry until throughly cooked.

6. Add the rice and some sea-salt. Mix everything thoroughly

7. Pour the beaten eggs over the rice.

8. Stir fry until eggs are cooked and well blended with the fried rice.

9. Add the spring onions and stir for another 2 minutes.

10. Scoop onto serving dish.

11. Serve warm.

Bon appétit!

Simple BeeHoon Soup (ABC Chicken Soup)

Ever since I've been down with this Influenza A virus, I haven't been able to stomach rice. I will throw up. I've been having spaghetti or beehoon with chicken soup. My son has been asking for noodles. And my husband too. Somehow this virus has changed our system.

ABC Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole range-free chicken (cut into quarters - without skin and all fats removed)
2. 3 medium sized old potatoes (skin peeled and cut into 4 parts)
3. 2 medium sized carrots (peeled and cut into chunks)
4. 1 celery stick (peeled and cut into about the same size as carrots)
5. 1/4 cup of barley
6. Sea-salt (depending on pot size and individual taste)
7. Filtered water (amount depending on pot size)

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1. In a large pot, add all the ingredients above. Make sure everything is submerged.

2. Boil for 2 hours

3. *You can add eggs into the soup by using the 'drop egg' method. Or you can just break an egg(s) directly into the soup without breaking the yolk while the soup is being boiled during the 2nd hour.

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While the soup is being cooked, you can prepare the beehoon by soaking it in a container of water. Once it has softened, drain the water away and set aside.

In a bowl, add some of the beehoon and scoop some boiling soup onto the beehoon until it is submerged in the soup.

Bon appétit!

Carrot & Celery Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients:

1. 1 medium sized carrot (outer layer peeled and sliced into thin strips)
2. 1 stalk of celery (with the leaves too) (peeled and diced)
3. 10 fresh chicken eggs (beaten)
4. Sea-salt
5. Sunflower oil

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1. Add 1/2 a teaspoon of sea-salt into the beaten eggs and mix throughly.

2. Heat a wok.

3. Add about 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil into heated wok.

4. Pour the beaten eggs.

5. Sprinkle the sliced carrots and diced celery into the beaten eggs.

6. Allow it to simmer and cook.

7. Once one side is browned, turn it over and cook the other side until browned.

8. Scoop up onto serving plate.

9. Serve with hot rice.

Bon appétit!

Millet & Fish Congee

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup of Bario rice (washed)
2. 1 cup of millet (washed)
3. 1 red snapper (baked and flesh torn into small pieces)
    * For recipe, click on LINK
4. Sea-salt
5. 1 large carrot (outer layer peeled and diced into small pieces)
6. 1 litre of filtered water

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1. Pour everything into a large pot.

2. Boil on high heat until it starts to bubble.

3. Allow to boil for about 5 minutes before turning to low heat.

4. Boil on low heat for 1 1/2 hours while stirring very frequently.

5. After 1 1/2 hours of cooking is done, allow to sit for 1/2 hour (with lid closed) before serving.

Bon appétit!

The Rice-Pot Version of Fried Pasta

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of boiled mixed pasta (penne, macaroni & fusilli)
2. Shredded chicken (from one whole drumstick+thigh which has been baked)
    * for recipe, click on LINK
3. 2 medium sized carrots (skin peeled and cut into thin strips)
4. 1/2 clove of garlic (outer layer removed and cut into thin slices)
5. Sea-salt
6. Sunflower oil
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1. Pour the sunflower oil into the heated rice cooker.

2. Once the oil is hot, add the garlic.

3. Stir fry until garlic is slightly browned.

4. Add the carrots and stir fry until slightly softened.

5. Add the shredded chicken and pasta.

6. Add sea-salt to taste and mix everything thoroughly.

7. Stir fry for another 5 minutes.

8. Scoop up on serving plate.

9. Serve warm.

Bon appétit!

The Rice-Pot Version of Braised Chicken Congee with Millet & Quinoa

Ingredients:

1. Shredded chicken pieces and potatoes from braised chicken
*For recipe, please click on LINK
2. 2 carrots (peeled and cut into small chunks)
3. 1 cup of uncooked white rice
4. 1/4 cup of uncooked quinoa
5. 1/4 cup of uncooked millet
6. 5 cups of water
7. Sea-salt (season to taste)

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1. Pour all ingredients into a rice cooker.

2. Boil for 2 hours (stirring occasionally).

3. Serve hot.

Bon appétit!

Chicken Balls Noodle Soup

Dish 1 - Chicken Balls

For recipe, click on LINK

Dish 2 - Chicken Soup

For recipe, click on LINK

Add brown rice noodles, some choy sum veggie, add the chicken balls and pour hot soup over noodles. You can also have it with a poached or microwaved egg together with this dish.

Bon appétit!

The Rice Pot Fried Rice

Ingredients:

1. 4 cups of long grain white rice
2. 200gm of minced chicken (seasoned with sea-salt)
3. 1 bulb of garlic (outer layer removed and sliced thinly)
4. 2 bunch of spiring onions (sliced into fine pieces)
5. 2 medium sized organic carrots (outer layer removed and sliced into thin strips)
6. Sunflower oil
7. Sea-salt

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1. Boil the rice and set aside to cool. (Alternatively, you could boil the rice the day before and keep it in the freezer.)

2. Switch on the rice cooker and pour in about 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil.

3. Add the garlic and fry until they are slightly browned.

4. Push the garlic aside and add the minced chicken.

5. Cook the minced chicken until about 90% cooked. Break the minced chicken into fine pieces.

6. Add the carrots and spring onions and stir fry until minced chicken is 100% cooked and vegetables have softened. You can close the lid for about 3 minutes.

7. Add the rice and some sea-salt.

8. Mix everything thoroughly.

9. Scoop onto serving plate.

Bon appétit!

We had the fried rice with fried eggs!