This is the first recipe I posted on the Thermomix recipe community & I started with a Thermie Green theme, all my recipes were the colour green!! I love this recipe because it is so quick & easy. And we normally have a lot of silver beet in the garden to use up. My mum used to make a version of this recipe when I was little, she made it with a wholemeal pastry though & steamed the silver beet first. Oh & my first Thermomix you tube video is of me making this recipe – it’s a bit embarrassing!
Heat oven to 180 degrees (for fan forced) - 200 degrees.
Place Parmesan cheese into TM bowl process for 5 seconds on speed 10. Set cheese aside.
Add garlic clove process for 3 seconds on speed 7.
Add spinach leaves or silverbeet leaves, cream cheese, eggs, salt & pepper & dill (if using) process for 5 seconds on speed 7. You may need to scape down the sides of the bowl & repeat.
Pour mixture into greased quiche dish.
Sprinkle with reserved parmesan cheese.
Bake for 20 - 25 until lightly brown on top.
You can always put this mix on top of your favourite pastry or mountain bread - it also is a great filling for mini quiche.
Love ’em or hate ’em, lunchboxes are an unavoidable necessity. Parents have an important role to play when packing a lunchbox. Learning is hungry work! To fuel children for a day at school, pack a nutritious main lunch plus snacks from the five food groups. Pack to suit your child’s appetite. Keep food safe by packing lunchboxes in an insulated bag with an ice brick. Include a water bottle.
Kids love to help! Get the kids involved in planning and packing their lunchbox. Try making the following recipes together.
KIDS COOKING LUNCHBOX IDEAS* Puff pastry scrolls Filo pastry triangles Cornish pasties Zucchini slice Lasagne cups Potato & veg bake into cupcake liners Fritters or corn cakes Pikelets Left over cold pasta bake or macaroni cheese or bake in muffin tins Dip & veg sticks or crackers Quesadillas Rice paper rolls Sushi rolls Wraps Scrolls – savoury or sweet Pasta or noodle salad Mini pies or potato pies Mini quiche Frittata in muffin cups or a rectangle cut into squares Mini pizzas Calzone Meatballs Tuna or salmon fish cakes or balls Falafel balls Mini hamburger Sausage rolls or vegetarian sausage rolls Savoury muffins Hard-boiled eggs Stuffed potatoes or sweet potatoes Mini sausages baked in puff pastry Corn chips and avocado dip serve with cheese sticks and vegetable sticks Savoury or sweet flavoured popcorn Potato or sweet potato salad with bacon Home-made baked beans with toast soldiers Leftover fried rice Fresh, frozen or dried fruit Cold dogs Pizza subs Egg & bacon pies Mini meat loves wrapped in bacon Homemade crumpets with butter & honey or Vegemite Noodle salad Cornbread served with butter cheese & relish Cherry tomatoes to snack on Dry cereal or toasted muesli (as long as there is no nuts) or dried fruit and seed mix Cold roasted vegetable wedges with sour cream dip Lettuce cup filled with favourite mince & or salad mix Pumpkin, carrot, spinach and ricotta cheese triangles Savoury scones Fruit sticks with cream cheese dip Silverbeet and cream cheese quiche Ploughman’s lunch – cheese pickles vegetable sticks cold ham/salami Home-made potato cake Pasta salad Home made yoghurt and stewed fruit or vanilla bean paste
Fillings for sandwiches, rolls & wraps Avocado and egg Chicken avocado and spring onion Roast beef with beetroot dip Cheese with relish, hummus or pesto & salad Tuna mayonnaise and lettuce Curried egg & Mayo Cucumber dill & Mayo & cheese Ham cheese and mayo Vegemite cheese and lettuce Butter banana and cinnamon Crispy bacon and egg BLT Bacon lettuce tomato Strawberry honey and cream cheese Cheese and tomato bread and butter puddings Fresh pineapple and cheese with lettuce Apple cheese and ham Lemon butter
Keep sandwiches interesting – try varying the fillings or cut sandwiches into different shapes. 3 layer sandwich – club sandwich Pinwheel or spiral sandwich Different shapes using a cookie cutter; little mini sandwiches can also put put onto a skewer Rectangles Squares Triangles Fingers Open sandwich Different types of bread, multigrain, brown, white Try making your own wraps
Add to the dough – seeds, or a bit or veg to colour the wrap, beetroot for pink spinach for green, carrot coloured etc.
Or use lettuce leaves like Dani Valent’s Chicken Lettuce Cup Lunchbox Recipe Try different types of rolls, different shapes & flavours, Turkish bread, baguette, hamburger bun, multigrain, wholemeal, sourdough etc.
* If your school is nut-free, either omit the nuts or substitute a mix of seeds in recipes that contain nuts. Try pine nuts (a seed, not a nut), linseeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds or chia seeds.
Or Biscuite' Fromage Perfect for unexpected guests Great to serve with drinks & nibbles
Ingredients
125g cheddar cheese cubed
60g parmesan cheese cubed
250g plain flour
2 tbs self raising flour
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
125g cold butter cubed
1 tbs lemon juice
black sesame seeds (optional)
Instructions
Place both cheeses into the TM bowl & chop for 5 secs on speed 9.
Add the flours, cayenne pepper & butter & chop for another 5 secs speed 9.
Add lemon juice & mix for another 10 secs speed 4.
Roll into a long log shape approx 38cm long & wrap with glad wrap - place in the fridge for at least 3 hrs (or in the freezer if using in further down the track.)
Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Slice off rounds about 5mm thick & place onto baking paper (sprinkle seeds on top if using), bake for 15 mins or until lightly brown.
500g mix of other green vegetables in season - zucchini, beans, peas, broccoli or cauliflower.
Salt & pepper to taste
3 tbs fresh coriander chopped to garnish
2 tbs fresh mint leaves chopped to garnish
Instructions
Heat milk for 20 mins/90 degrees/speed 2.
Add the vinegar & stir for 1 min/speed 2.
Place a nut milk bag into the simmering basket into a clean sink or container and pour in the contents of the TM bowl to drain the curds from the whey.
Rinse the ball off whey in the nut milk bag under some fresh water.
Place this ball still in the bag & simmering basket into a container into the fridge with a weight on top to allow all the excess liquid to drain out. making sure the drained liquid will not be in contact with the whey. It is best to do this over night or for a few hours.
You can then cut your paneer into pieces ready to use in the curry recipe.
Place all the dry spices & plain flour into the bowl & dry roast 3 mins/Varoma/speed 1.
Allow to cool for about 5mins & then mill for 1 min/speed 9.
Add garlic, onion (& any optional fresh spices) chop for 3 secs/speed 7.
Add oil & saute' 3 mins/Varoma/speed 1.
Add tomatoes, dates, sweet potato, salt & pepper (& cauliflower if using) cook for 3 mins/100 degrees/reverse/soft speed.
Add remaining veggies & cook for 15 mins/100 degrees/soft speed.
Gently fold in the paneer & garnish with fresh coriander & mint.
Serve with steamed rice, freshly made rotis & apricot chutney.
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