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!

Gluten-Free Apple Crumble

Ingredients:

1. 6 Red Delicious apples (skin removed, cored and sliced into thin wedges)
2. 1 1/2 cups of gluten-free flour (I used brown rice flour)
3. 1 cup of finely chopped cashew nuts
4. 6 tablespoons of butter (softened at room temperature)

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1. Place the apple wedges at the bottom of mini single aluminum muffin tins.

2. Then sprinkle the finely chopped cashew nuts on top of the apple wedges.

3. Preheat the oven to 180C.

4. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour and butter. Mix them until they resemble fine bread crumbs.

5. Spread the crumble all over the apple and cashews.

6. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown.

7. Serve warm. (You can freeze the extras and reheat them in the oven just before you eat.)

Bon appétit!

Homemade Applesauce

I noticed a lot of gluten-free cake and muffin recipes called for apple sauce. Hence, the existence of this post!

Ingredients:

1. 12 medium-sized Red Delicious apples (peeled, cored and cut into 8 pieces for each apple)
2. 2 cups of freshly juiced apple juice
3. 3 teaspoons of soft brown sugar (*optional) (you can omit this)
4. A squeeze of lemon

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1. Put all the cut apples into a large pot.

2. Pour the apple juice, sugar and lemon juice into the pot.

3. Mix everything up.

4. Cook the apple concoction on medium heat until it boils. Then bring it down to a simmer for approximately 20 minutes.

5. Once the apples have softened, transfer the apples in small batches to a food processor.

6. Once they are all pureed, pour the pureed apple sauce into another pot and bring it to a boil.

7. Allow to cool.

8. You can keep them in mason jars or freezer bags. I kept mine in small freezer bags and kept them in the freezer.

Bon appétit!

Heavenly! *Slurp!*

Apple Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole free-range chicken (cut into 4 parts and skin removed)
2. 3 Red Delicious apples (skin removed, core removed and cut into 4 parts)
3. Filtered water (Approximately 10 litres)
4. Sea-salt (amount is up to you)
5. Goji berry (optional)

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1. In a large pot, add the chicken, cut apples, water and sea-salt. (goji berry too if you're ok with it)

2. Boil on high heat until it bubbles.

3. Then simmer on low heat for 2 hours.

4. Serve hot with rice or noodles.

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!