TMX mashed potato - dairy-free version

The mashed potato recipe in the TM Every day book is easily altered to dairy-free.

I make it with rice milk and nuttelex and it is the best mashed potato I have ever had.

We all love it.

Apple crumble - dairy-free, failsafe

I have no idea how apple crumble is normally made, but I had some golden delicious apples that needed to be used and so I made this up the other night and it was delicious.

Ingredients

FILLING

5 golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and cut in 8ths.

TOPPING

200g oats
100g brown sugar
80g nuttelex

Method

I cooked apple in the varoma for 20 minutes - they came out beautiful and soft and I placed them in bottom of dish.

Topping - added all ingredients to TM bowl and mixed on 4 for about 30 seconds till combined.

Spread topping over apple and bake for 15 minutes.

I served ours with custard made using the TM recipe.

Mine is shown with Bonsoy custard - bonsoy makes the best custard :)

Verdict

Absolutely delicious. So easy, so yummy.

Chicken & leek pie - Failsafe

Ingredients:

FILLING

1 whole chicken breast, chopped
2T canola oil
1 leek, chopped
3 cloves garlic
2 sticks celery, chopped
1/2 cup pear juice
1/2 cup rice milk
2 T flour
1 T salt

TOPPING

800g potato, chopped
210g rice milk
25g nuttelex

Method

Chop garlic in TM
Add oil and leek and saute for 3 minutes
Add chicken and cook on 100, reverse speed 1 for 5 minutes
Add celery and cook on 100, reverse speed 1 for 2 minutes
Add 1/2 cup rice milk, 1/2 cup pear juice and flour and salt and cook on 100, reverse speed 1 for 2 minutes

Pour topping into pie dish.

Make topping per mashed potato instructions in TM Everyday cook book and pour on top of filling.

Bake in oven for 15 minutes.

Verdict
This was yummy - we ate all of it.
Next time cook teh celery for longer (add it earlier) as it was crunchy

Credit
This is partly inspired from a recipe in Friendly Food for chicken and leek puffs.
I also make the same mixture and serve it with pancakes
I was inspired to make a pie from a recipe on the thermomix forum. I need some lard though in order to make the puff pastry.

Soy chocolate custard

This recipe is adapted from that on page 155 of the TM "Everyday Cooking" book.

Ingredients
3 eggs + egg yolk left from sorbet
500 ml Bonsoy
60g rice flour (made in TM)
20g cocoa

Method
Place all ingredients in TM
Cook for 7 minutes at 90 on speed 4

Verdict

This was beautiful. It was very thick and somewhat floury - more like a pudding than a custard but delicious. And the first custard I've had since I went off dairy 6 months ago when Kate developed a problem!

Next time I will use less eggs I think.

Failsafe chicken risotto

Ingredients:

1 leek
2 spring onions
40g canola oil
1 large clove garlic
1 whole chicken breast
2 stalks celery
2 T celtic sea salt
200g frozen peas
1 cup pear juice (250 ml)
1/2 cup chicken stock (125 ml)
400g arborio rice
725ml water

(total liquid 1100ml)

- chop the celery and put aside
- chop the leek/spring onions/garlic, and 40g canola oil and saute for 2 mins (100, speed 2)
- add chicken and saute for 5 minutes
- add celery, rice, pear juice and saute for 3 minutes
- add stock, water, salt and cook for 15 minutes, reverse, 1.5
- in last 5 minutes add frozen peas

This is a failsafe modification of the mushroom risotto recipe in the thermomix book

Verdict:

Delicious. Everybody enjoyed it. Will cook again. Added 2 scoops of elecare to Kate's and she ate all her dinner.