Thermomix Brownie

(*NOTE: This recipe is from the Thermomix cookbook.)

Ingredients:

1. 220gm of unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)
2. 250gm of dark chocolate (70% cocoa - cut into cube size)
3. 70gm brown sugar (I reduced the amount by 3/4)
4. 6 eggs (room temperature)
5. A pinch of salt
6. 150gm of organic all-purpose flour (I used the less gluten flour)
7. *150gm of walnuts (optional) (you can choose to omit this or replace with cashews if you're intolerable to other nuts)

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1. Place chocolate into the mixing bowl and chop 5 sec/speed7.

2. Add butter and melt 4min/70C/speed2.

3. Add sugar, eggs, salt and flour. Set 1min/speed4.

4. Add walnuts and mix 10sec/speed4.

5. Preheat oven to 170C.

6. Line baking tray with baking paper.

7. Pour the batter into the tin.

8. Bake for 23 to 25 minutes.

9. Allow it to cool before cutting into squares.

Bon appetit!

Sugar Butter Buns

Ingredients:

1. 270gm of organic strong bread flour
2. 30gm of organic all-purpose flour
3. 5gm of fine sea-salt
4. 2 teaspoons of instant yeast
5. 30gm of sugar (optional)
6. 50gm of unsalted butter
7. 100ml of milk
8. 2 eggs
9. 100ml of water

For the buns' topping:

1. 100gm of butter
2. 50gm of granulated sugar

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1. Whisk together the eggs, water and milk in a bowl.

2. In a large mixing bowl, pour the flours, sugar, yeast and salt. Mix them.

3. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and pour in the wet mixture.

4. Mix everything together and knead the dough.

5. Incorporate the butter into the dough and fold and knead until dough is soft, pliable and smooth (about 15 to 20 minutes).

6. If the dough is sticky, add a bit of flour and continue kneading.

7. Put the dough aside and let it rise for an hour.

8. Knock the risen dough down and knead again.

9. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

10. Preheat oven at 180C.

11. Break the dough into 12 small round pieces.

12. Flatten the little pieces of dough and let them rise.

13. Slit all 12 pieces of dough and place pieces of butter in the slits. Sprinkle the granulated sugar over them.

14. Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

15. Allow to cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

The Rice Pot Version Of Chicken Chop

Ingredients:

1. 2 chicken breasts (skin removed and cut into strips)
2. Organic all-purpose flour
3. Sea-salt
4. Sunflower oil
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1. Wash all the chicken breasts throughly under running water.

2. Pat dry with kitchen towels.

3. Coat the chicken breast strips with the flour and seas-salt.

4. Pour about 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil into the rice-pot.

5. Once the oil is hot, put the chicken strips.

6. When one side has browned, turn it over and continue to cook until the other side has browned.

7. Scoop up onto serving plate.

8. You can eat it with rice or bread or mashed potatoes.

Bon appétit!

Banana & Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

1. 3 medium sized eggs
2. 75gm soft brown sugar
3. 175gm of organic all-purpose flour (sifted twice)
4. 2 teaspoon of baking powder
5. 1 teaspoon of sea-salt
6. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
7. 175ml sunflower oil
8. 3 medium sized bananas (very ripe and mashed)
9. 175gm of grated carrots
10. 175gm of pumpkin seeds (OPTIONAL)

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1. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar together until the mixture thickens.

2. Sift in the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.

3. Mix well and then add the oil.

4. Add pumpkin seeds. Mix thoroughly. (If you are not able to tolerate pumpkin seeds or any other seeds, omit step 4.)

5. Lastly add the grated carrots and mashed bananas.

6. Mix well.

7. Preheat oven to 170C.

8. Line a baking cake tin with removable base with baking paper.

9. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for about 1 hour or until golden brown.

10. Once it is done, allow the cake to cool.

Bon appétit!

Celery & Carrot Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole free-range chicken (cut into 8 equal pieces) (seasoned with sea-salt)
2. 1 whole garlic bulb (outer layer removed) (leave in clove size)
3. 5 sticks of celery (cut into 2cm in length)
4. 4 medium sized carrots (sliced thinly)
5. Soft brown sugar
6. Sea-salt
7. 2 tablespoons of organic all-purpose flour (this is to thicken the sauce)
8. Sunflower oil
9. 1 cup of warm water

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1. Heat a pot on high heat.

2. Once it is well heated, pour 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil.

3. Once the oil is hot, add the garlic cloves.

4. Stir fry until garlic cloves are slightly browned and a fragrant-garlicky-aroma has filled the air.

5. Add the chicken, celery and carrots. Stir and mix the ingredients.

6. In a bowl, add a teaspoon of soft brown sugar, sea-salt, flour and 1 cup of warm water. Mix concoction thoroughly.

7. Pour into pot.

8. Boil the dish on high heat until it starts to boil.

9. Then turn it on low heat and allow to simmer with lid closed for about 1 hour+.

10. Serve hot with warm rice.

Bon appétit!

Spring Onion Pancakes

This is a Chinese dim sum staple. It was made with spring onions, but I also tried it with some big onions. I personally like it with big onions rather than spring onions.

Ingredients:

1. 225gm of organic all-purpose flour

2. 150ml of filtered water

3. 2 tablespoons of butter (melted)

4. 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil

5. 6 spring onions (scallions) (trimmed and finely chopped)
6. Sea-salt

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1. Sift the flour and sea-salt into a large mixing bowl.

2. Pour in the water, melted butter and oil, a little at a time while stirring to create a smooth dough.

3. Knead the dough for about 5 to 10 minutes until it is soft and pliable.

4. Set it aside and cover it with a damp cloth for about 20 minutes.

5. Divide the dough into small round balls about the size of a large marble.

6. Roll the balls of dough into small rectangular shapes.

7. Place some chopped spring onions onto each pancake.

8. Roll up the pancakes lengthways and seal the ends to ensure that they will not open up during cooking.

9. Preheat oven at 190C.

10. On a baking tray lined with baking paper, place the pancakes and bake for about 20 minutes on one side and another 20 on another side. Bake until golden brown.

11. Allow to cool slightly before serving.

Bon appétit!

Baked Chicken Balls

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of minced chicken (marinated with sea-salt and sunflower oil)
2. 1/4 cup of organic all-purpose flour
3. 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil
4. 3 cloves of garlic (outer layer removed and chopped into tiny pieces)
5. 1 stalk of chives (chopped into tiny pieces)
6. Soft brown sugar

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1. In a large mixing bowl, mix all of the ingredients above.

2. Preheat oven at 180C.

3. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

4. Once all the ingredients are throughly mixed, scoop round balls of the mixture with a soup spoon and place on baking tray.

5. Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken balls are slightly browned.

6. Serve with warm rice or as finger food.

Bon appétit!

Cod Fish + Spring Onions Fillets

Ingredients:

1. 1 large thickly sliced cod fish
2. 1 stalk of spring onion (washed and chopped into small pieces)
3. Sea-salt
4. Soft brown sugar
5. 1 egg
6. About 3 to 4 tablespoons of organic all-purpose flour

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1. Preheat oven to 200C.

2. Line a baking pan with baking paper. Season the cod fish with sea-salt.

3. Bake for about 20 minutes.

4. Once the fish is done, debone it.

5. In a mixing bowl, add the deboned fish chunks, spring onions, a sprinkle of sea-salt and soft brown sugar, egg and the organic all-purpose flour.

6. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

7. Preheat oven to 200C.

8. On a baking tray lined with baking paper, drop tablespoons size of the fish mixture.

9. Bake for about 20 minutes.

10. Allow to cool before serving. You can either serve it with rice or eat it on its own.

Bon appétit!

Soft Butter Buns

Ingredients:

1. 3 1/2 cups of organic unbleached all-purpose flour
2. 2 teaspoons of instant yeast
3. 4 tablespoons of soft brown sugar
4. 100gms of butter (softened at room temperature)
5. 1 1/4 cups of warm soy milk (click here for soybean milk recipe)

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1. Combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix and knead into a soft and smooth dough.

2. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap or damp towel. Allow the dough to rise for 60 to 90 minutes or until it has doubled in bulk.

3. Punch the dough back down.

4. Divide the dough into equal round pieces.

5. Roll the dough in between your palms into a smooth ball.

6. Place the buns in a baking tray.

7. Allow the buns to rise until they are crowded against each other.

8. Preheat oven at 180C.

9. Bake the buns for about 1/2 hour or until golden brown.

10. Allow to slightly cool before serving them warm.

Bon appétit!

Classic Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup of butter (softened at room temperature)
2. 1/2 cup of soft brown sugar
3. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
4. 2 eggs (room temperature)
5. 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla essence
6. 1 1/2 cups of organic all-purpose flour
7. 3 cups of rolled oats

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1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, brown sugar, and baking soda. Mix until well blended.

2. Beat in the eggs and vanilla essence and mix until well blended.

3. Add in the flour and mix thoroughly.

4. Add in the oats and mix thoroughly.

5. Preheat oven at 190C.

6. Drop tablespoons of dough on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

7. Bake for about 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.

8. Allow to cool.

9. The cookies can be stored in the fridge in an airtight container.

The 3Bs Pancakes!

Ingredients:

1. 300gm of organic all-purpose flour (sieved twice)
2. 100gm of organic buckwheat flour (sieved twice)
3. 6 large bananas (mashed)
4. 50gm of barley flour (sieved twice)
5. 2 3/4 cups of barley water
6. Sunflower oil
7. 1 teaspoon of sea-salt
8. 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
9. 4 eggs (beaten)

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1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients above.

2. Whisk the mixture with an electric whisk until all the ingredients are mixed thoroughly and the mixture is smooth. (*Add more barley water if mixture is too dry.)

3. Heat the frying pan.

4. Pour a ladle of the mixture into the pan.

5. Once the bottom side of the pancake is browned, flip it over and cook the other side until it is browned too.

6. Repeat steps 4 to 5 until the mixture is all used up.

7. Serve warm.

Bon appétit!

Banana, buckwheat & barley pancakes!

Home-Made Cabbage+Chicken Nuggets!

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of minced chicken
2. 1 very small cabbage (washed and shredded into very small pieces)
3. 2 tablespoons of organic all-purpose flour
4. Sea-salt
5. Sunflower oil
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1. In a large bowl, pour the minced chicken, shredded cabbage, organic all-purpose flour, *sea-salt and *sunflower oil.

*according to your taste

2. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly until it forms a paste.

3. Form nugget shapes from the paste and set aside.

4. Heat a frying pan/wok.

5. Once it is hot, pour some sunflower oil into it.

6. Stir-fry in batches. Once one side is cooked and slightly browned, turn the nuggets to the other side and continue frying.

7. Serve with warm rice.

Bon appétit!

Candy Cane Butter Biscuits

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup of organic strong bread flour (sieved twice)
2. 1 cup of organic all purpose flour (sieved twice)
3. A teaspoon of sea-salt
4. 2 tablespoons of soft brown sugar
5. 125gm of softened butter
6. 1 tablespoon of active dry yeast
7. 500ml of warm water
8. 1/4 cup of sunflower oil

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1. Place the organic bread flour and all purpose flour, sea-salt, brown sugar, active dry yeast, softened butter, sunflower oil and water in a large bowl. (All in the order which I wrote.)

2. Knead until smooth.

3. Cover the bowl with a cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for approximately 45 minutes.

4. Preheat oven at 180C.

5. Punch the dough back down and break small round pieces from the dough. Roll the dough into 15cm sticks. Shape them into candy cane shapes.

6. Place them on baking trays lined with baking papers.

7. Bake them for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

8. Allow to cool.

Bon appétit!

Apple + Quinoa Cake

Ingredients:

1. 3 large Red Delicious apples (I could not find any Golden Delicious in any supermarket or market)
* Peel, core and dice the apples.
* Soak the apples in a bowl of salt water and place in the fridge before you start preparing the cake.
2. 3 large eggs
3. 1 cup of sunflower oil
4. 1/2 teaspoon sea-salt
5. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
6. 2 1/2 cups of organic all-purpose flour
7. 1 teaspoon of baking soda
8. 1/2 cup of quinoa
9. 1 cup of soft brown sugar

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1. In a large mixing bowl, pour the sunflower oil and eggs and beat until creamy.

2. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat well.

3. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda into another bowl.

4. Add this mixture to the egg mixture slowly and mix until well combined. The batter will be very thick.

5. Drain the salt water from the apples and fold the apples and quinoa into the batter.

6. Preheat oven at 175C.

7. Prepare a baking tray with baking paper. Pour and spread the batter into the pan. Sprinkle the top of cake with a handful of quinoa.

8. Bake for approximately 45 minutes.

9. Allow cake to cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

Home-Made Chick-Pea Patties!

For this recipe, I did not cook the chick-peas after soaking them.

Ingredients:

1. 500gm chick-peas
2. 3 big onions (skin peeled)
3. 1 bulb of garlic (skin peeled)
4. 1/2 of sunflower oil
5. Sea-salt
6. Brown sugar
7. 1/2 cup of organic all-purpose flour
8. 3 large eggs

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1. Soak the chick-peas for 8 hours or overnight in the fridge. Alternatively, you need not soak the chick-peas but instead pour boiling water over it and wait for one hour. The peas will swell.

2. Rinse the peas.

3. Blend the peas, garlic and onions.

4. Pour the blended mixture into a large bowl.

5. Add about 3/4 tablespoon of sea-salt and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of sunflower oil and organic all-purpose flour and the 3 large eggs.

6. Mix the mixture thoroughly.

7. Preheat the oven at 210C.

8. Shape the chick-pea mixture into fist sized patties.

9. Lay them on a baking sheet which is placed on a baking tray.

10. Bake for approximately 30 minutes.

11. Once it is browned and a wonderful aroma wafts through the kitchen, the chick-peas are done.

12. Allow to cool.

Patties ALL DONE!

The Yummiest Home-Baked Chicken!

* Chicken skin contain amines. If you are sensitive to amines, it would be better to remove the skin.

Ingredients:

1. 4 large chicken drumsticks/thighs (with skins)
2. Organic all-purpose flour or organic plain flour
3. 1 teaspoon of sea-salt
4. Baking paper
5. Baking tray

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1. Wash the chicken drumsticks/thighs thoroughly.

2. Line the baking tray with a piece of baking paper.

3. Preheat oven at 220C.

4. Sprinkle the sea-salt and about 1/4 cup of flour onto the tray.

5. Mix the flour and salt and rub the mixture onto the chicken parts liberally. Make sure that there is a coating of flour and sea-salt all over the chicken. This coating will make the chicken skin crunchier.

6. For the first 1/2 hour, bake the chickens undersides exposed (skin parts on the tray).

7. For the remaining 1/2 hour, bake the chicken parts with the skins exposed.

8. Allow to cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

I had the chicken with fried egg and stir-fried choy sum veggie with garlic.

Boiled some barley too!

Home-Made Falafels

Falafel is a traditional Arab food. It basically is a deep-fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas, lava beans or both.

I made some amendments to the traditional falafel recipe. And I used only chick-peas. Spices (such as cumin and coriander) are used heavily in the traditional falafel. I can't use spices, thus I replaced them with garlic and onions. Falafels are deep fried. I baked mine.

When chick-peas are used, they are not cooked prior to use. But I cooked mine. You can experiment with either way.

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of chick-peas
2. 2 large carrots (peeled and cut into small chunks)
3. 2 large big onions (peeled and sliced into halves)
4. 1 clove of garlic (peeled)
5. 1 cup of all organic all-purpose flour
6. Sunflower oil
7. Sea-salt
8. Brown sugar
9. 3 large eggs (beaten)
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1. Soak the chick-peas overnight or for about 8 hours.

2. If you need some tips on cooking the chick-peas, click here. If you want to use them raw, skip this step.

3. By using a blender or food processor, blend the chick-peas, the carrots, big onions and garlic.

4. Pour the blended mixture into a large bowl.

5. Add the 1 cup of organic all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons of sea-salt, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of sunflower oil and the beaten eggs into the blended mixture and mix thoroughly.

6. Preheat oven at 210C.

7. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.

8. Using a small soup ladle, scoop up the mixture and fill up the trays with blobs of the mixture. Use the back of the ladle to flatten the mixture.

9. Bake the two trays of falafels for about 1/2 hour. Once they are browned and a very wonderful aroma fills the air, you will know that it is done!

10. Allow to cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

Home-Made Minced Chicken+Mashed Potato Patty (Evelyn's Version)

Ingredients:

1. 6 very large old potatoes
2. 500gm of minced chicken (marinate with sea-salt, a dash of brown sugar and sunflower oil)
3. 4 cups of organic all-purpose flour
4. Sunflower oil
5. Sea-salt
6. Brown sugar
7. 60gm of butter (softened at room temperature)
8. 7 cups of water

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1. In a large pot, pour 6 cups of water into it and bring it to a boil.

2. Wash the potatoes and peel the potato skins. Discard the skins.

3. Once the water is boiling, drop the potatoes into it and continue to boil the water until the potatoes have softened.

4. Scoop the softened potatoes up and mash them up. Add the softened butter and 1/2 teaspoon of sea-salt to the mashed potatoes and mix throughly.

5. In a large baking bowl, pour the flour, a teaspoon of sea-salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 cup of sunflower oil and the mashed potatoes.

6. Mix all the ingredients throughly until they resemble the mixture of dough.

7. Heat a frying pan.

8. Break the dough into balls the size of golf balls.

9. Flatten them and make a depression in the centre.

10. Scoop 2 tablespoons size of minced chicken and press it into the depression.

11. Drizzle some sunflower oil on the heated pan.

12. Place the patties onto the pan and fry till golden brown.

13. Flip them over and fry the other side until golden brown too.

14. Serve warm with rice. Alternatively, you can eat it them on their own with the sauce of your choice. I had mine with rice of course!

Bon appétit!

Mashing the potatoes!

The dough!

The potato patty with minced chicken in the centre!

The yummy-licious patties!

With rice of course! 

My Home-Made Minced Chicken Chop

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of minced chicken
(*marinate with sea-salt, sunflower oil and 2 tablespoons of organic all-purpose flour)
2. Sunflower oil
3. Bread crumbs

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1. Heat a frying pan.

2. While the pan is being heated up, flatten the minced chicken into a large slice "patty-looking-chicken". Use a plastic spoon to create some "lines of depression or wavy-lines" in the chicken.

3. Then coat the chicken with bread crumbs.

4. Drizzle some sunflower oil onto the frying pan.

5. Place the minced chicken onto the pan.

6. Allow it to sizzle until it is browned on one side.

7. Turn it over and allow the other side to sizzle until browned too.

8. Serve hot.

Bon appétit!

I did not coat the chicken with enough bread crumbs. Will do so the next time I cook this. 

This is the little boy's meal. I served the minced chicken chop with my home-made instant noodles, fried egg and sliced cucumbers. I garnished the noodles with some fried garlic and shallots. 

Low-Salicylate French Beans Chicken Nuggets

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of minced chicken

2. 200gm of organic french beans (cut into small pieces)

3. 1/4 cup of organic all-purpose flour

4. 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil

5. Sea-salt

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1. Mix all the above ingredients until all blended well.

2. Make into small nugget shapes.

3. Heat the wok with just a little bit of sunflower oil.

4. Once the oil is hot, place the chicken nuggets into the wok.

5. Once one side is slightly browned, turn it to the other side and fry till it is slightly browned too.

6. Allow to slightly cool before serving.

Bon appétit!

I had mine with sushi rice!