Do you love soup? I most certainly do, however my hubby is not a fan of soups so a lot of the time, I will have a soup for breakfast and or lunch, sometimes I make a really thick & chunky soup & I tell my hubby it’s a “casserole” 🙂
Soups were a regular occurrence in our household growing up & Mum used to make us the most delicious lamb, barley & vegetable soup. My guilty pleasure was a tinned tomato soup served with cracked pepper, crumbled feta & fresh basil leaves! Now I just make my own tomato soup from fresh tomatoes, it only takes about 10 mins in the Thermomix & is so delicious! Anyway because winter is normally the best time to enjoy soups & I wanted to share some of my favourite recipes, to give you some inspiration & ideas.
Tomato soup only takes 15 mins to make & you can pimp it to taste even better – like adding pepper berry oil & or feta cheese!! YUM!!
Quirky Cooking’s Coconut Lemon Chicken Soup This is my go to soup is anyone is feeling slightly unwell, so quick easy & nourishing & I always love squeezing lemon juice into most of my soups too! (Plus I’m so excited that Jo Whitton from Quirky Cooking loved my photo of her soup so much she bought it to use on her website!) The other very popular soup recipe by Jo is her Creamy Chicken & Brown Rice Soup, put this on your winter cooking list if it isn’t already!
George Calombaris’ Pumpkin Soup with Virtual Bacon Dust from In the Mix Cookbook by Dani Valent. This is my favourite Pumpkin Soup recipe by far, so creamy & delicious. I even leave the skin on my butternut pumpkin because the Thermomix is so awesome at blending it all up. The Virtual bacon dust is made from toasted & caramelised sesame seeds with brown sugar & Japanese stock powder (dashi) I also made it replacing the dashi with dried porcini mushrooms & it was still just as yummy.
For an awesome roasted pumpkin flavour. I also love roasting a pumpkin whole along with some sweet potato, onion & garlic still in their skins. Once they have cooked you can remove the skins if you wish & then add some of your favourite stock & maybe some cream or coconut cream, once you have cooked it all then puree till smooth.
Peter Gilmore’s Cauliflower Soup from In the Mix 2 Cookbook, in the book it is served with seared scallops & fresh truffle, but it is still absolutely amazing even with out the scallops & truffle. Even just using some truffle oil & or truffle salt if you have it, will take it to the next level.
Or if you might like a mix of the two In the Mix Cookbook Recipes concepts & try the Cauliflower Soup with Bacon Dust – the bacon is real in this recipe!
My beetroot soup recipe is coming soon, I use fresh beetroot, fennel & cabbage and serve it with homemade yoghurt & horseradish with a bit of smoked salmon if you want to make it a bit fancy for guests.
I love the smoky spicy flavour of chorizo & any recipe that has it is as an ingredient is always so delicious – This is the Mexican Black Bean & Chorizo Soup another awesome recipe by Jo Whitton from Quirky Cooking.
Another chorizo soup I love is with chunks of chorizo, kale & sweet potato YUM!
In my minestrone soup, I use as much veggies from the garden as I can, I loosely use Jamie Oliver’s recipe (I leave out the pasta) & it’s delicious with or with out some parmesan cheese on top!
Spicy Moroccan Lentil Soup – This recipe is in the cookbook that comes with your Thermomix so quick easy & tasty!
The pea soup from The Devil of a Cookbook is also amazing & speaking of peas – how good is a pea & ham soup too?!
Venison Pho Style Soup
Soups are hearty, healthy, nourishing & soul warming, they can be a little bit posh or simple & quick. The main thing is they taste so good, like anything you make from scratch!! Happy Thermomixing Everyone 🙂
You know I like nothing better than a cookbook challenge YUM!! And because Jo & Fouad are coming to Tassie at the end of August – this was a good excuse to cook the book!! Plus it’s great because the recipes are so healthy in the ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Life Changing Food cookbook too!! I have already made a few delicious recipes from the book but I’m looking forward to trying some I haven’t tried yet too. Bring it on!! YUM!!
Mexican Hot Chocolate
Golden Butter Coffee
Runner Bean & Garlic Braise
Cream of Broccoli Soup
Apple & Pork Belly Hotpot
Roasted Berries
Coconut-Chai Chia Pudding with Roasted Berries
Beetroot Hummus
Hummus
Buckwheat Crackers
Jo’s “Best Ever” Butter Chicken with Cauliflower Rice
Roast Vegetable Salad (without avocado or salad leaves)
Hazelnut Tabouli
Cabbage & Bacon Stir-fry
Slow-cooked Lamb Shoulder with Red Wine Sauce with Cauliflower & Leek Mash
Toum
Baba Ghanouj with Garlic Mushrooms
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Fermented Chilli Relish
Fermented Salsa
Apple Cinnamon Nut Porridge
Saffron & Lemon Chicken with Toum (Lebanese garlic dip)
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Milkshake
Labne (Yoghurt Cheese)
Beetroot Labne Dip
Sauerkraut
Pumpkin with Pesto
Beef & Quinoa Patties
Sunflower Seed Paella with Prawn & Chorizo
Mango Macadamia High-energy Smoothie
Charred Capsicum & Walnut Dip
Egg, Bacon & Spinach Pies
Purple Power Smoothie
Red Rocket Smoothie
Sweet Potato Rosti
Chilli Bowl
Grain Free Scones
Apple Pie
Almond Meal Pastry
Chicken Broth
Sweet Potato Mousse
Coconut Milk
Coconut Flour
Apphia’s Lemon Chicken with Roast Veg & Rosemary
Meat-za
Zucchini & Mushroom Strata
Gypsy Chicken
Lebanese Style Herb & Nut Crusted Salmon
Sweet & Sour Prawn & Coconut Soup
Moroccan Cauliflower “Cous Cous” Salad
Nutty Chocolate (I made them in silicone moulds for the seminar so it’s easy for all the gusts to try)
Asian Style Beef Salad
Probiotic Coleslaw with Homemade Mayonnaise
Lamb & Prune Tagine
Super-tender Chuck Steak
Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie (I used white sweet potato)
Spanish Tortilla with Sweet Potato
Kale Triangles – made with the Grain Free Dough
Red Cabbage Salad
Chicken Liver Parfait
Russian Custard
Nomato SauceSlow-cooked Barbecue Pork RibsNomato & Halloumi PizzaGheeChicken and Mushroom PhoMussels with Tomato and BaconTuna in Olive Oil
Yes people are still buying Thermomix!! Of course they are because they are so awesome!!
When I deliver a Thermomix I want people to get the most out of their new kitchen friend & ask them if they would like to accept the Thermomix 30 Day Challenge. “Your mission should you choose to accept it is to make 1 new thing a day in the Thermomix everyday for 30 days, it can be something as simple as making icing sugar in 10 secs, also if you miss a day you can make up for it on another day. In the challenge try to use every part of the Thermomix at least once including the Varoma. It is optional to share photos of the food you make in your 30 day challenge on social media with the hashtag #thermomix30daychallenge. (Feel free to share on my Arwens ThermoPics Facebook page too)” Of course you don’t have to be a new owner to accept the challenge either, you might just want to try some new recipes for 30 days 🙂
At your 1 hour delivery session, you learn all about your new Thermomix & how to use it, as well as cook your first recipe while your consultant helps. We recommend hosting another Thermomix demo a few weeks after your Thermomix has arrived because at any presentation you will only remember 20% of the information. Or you may like to go to one of the Thermomix demonstration style cooking classes.
Here are my tips on the best places for inspirational Thermomix recipes.
Sign up to Cookidoo. (It’s available for TM31,Model 5 & TM6 Thermomix owners – you just register with your serial number from your Thermomix on the TM31 it is underneath & on the Model 5 it’s under the settings menu in about Thermomix) It is best to use either google chrome or firefox as your internet browser or download the cookidoo app. So what are you waiting for? if you need any help setting up cookidoo you can ask your consultant or ring Thermomix directly on 1800 004 838.
The Thermomix Recipe Community has thousands of recipes & growing everyday. This is a place where Thermomix enthusiasts upload their favourite recipes they have converted to the Thermomix. These are not tested recipes. It is a fantastic tool you can search for a favourite recipe or ingredient or even a user like me arwen.thermomix. The advantage of creating your own profile on the recipe community is you can create your own folders & keep your favourite recipes in them – you can also ask other users to be your “friend”. Your friends will be able to see your collections & you will be able to see their recipe collections.
The Dani Valent website is available for amazing Thermomix recipe videos, you get 1 free video or recipe a month for the free subscription or for $197 a year you get 1 Thermomix video and or (printable) recipe a week & you start with over 200 recipes/videos when you join. There are also monthly & 3 monthly subscription options. It’s great value & features home cooking recipes by Dani & also amazing chef’s recipes too. I’m kind of addicted to this site. See everything I have cooked from it here (yes I have cooked & eaten absolutely everything!!)
Of course you can just google Thermomix & whatever recipe you are looking for & there are so many blogs, Facebook groups & pages for you to join too! I think one of the great things about the Thermomix it really has built a community of Thermomix lovers & we love to help each other with our Thermomixing & share our favourite recipes. The main thing to remember is we all cook differently no matter which appliance we are using & we all have different tastes or requirements for our food, lifestyles, our families & friends. So don’t be scared of your new best kitchen friend, pick up your trusty spatula, just be brave & Thermomix!
Have you made it yet? It is so easy & perfect if you have some Dried coconut & not coconut milk or cream & can’t be bothered going to the shop to buy some for a recipe. I very rarely buy it myself now & just make the coconut milk as I need it just before I start the recipe. You can also freeze any leftovers if you are not intending on using it soon. I first tried the recipe from the Thermomix Fast & Easy Indian Cooking book about 4 years ago. Now I use Jo Whitton’s recipe from her Quirky Cooking cookbook available here & please feel free to watch her video too. You will need a nut bag (yes if this is the first time you have heard of a nut bag you are permitted to laugh – like I did the first time I heard about them) You could use fine muslin but for around $10 – $20 investment you will get a lot of use out of it. You can purchase them online or at most health food shops.
As always it is best to start with the best quality ingredients you can afford so I start with organic shredded coconut 300g.
Mill for 20 secs on speed 9
Next add 800g water & chop for 1 min on speed 9. Strain using a nut bag. And I usually start the straining like this with my nut bag over the simmering basket to let the first lot of milk through & then I love to pick up the nut bag & squeeze the milk through – I imagine it’s sort of like milking a cow?!
Yes I made coconut milk!! And I know what’s in it too – I hope this post has inspired you to give it ago too!
If you want to make this into coconut cream you then add melted coconut oil slowly to emulsify into the warmed coconut milk as per Jo’s recipe.
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