Name of Recipe: Chinese Chicken and Corn Soup
Number of People: 4 massive bowls
Ingredients:

1 kg chicken drum sticks- about 4-5
1 piece of ginger- sliced up.
1 whole peeled onion
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar

1 can creamed corn

3 tb corn starch mixed with 3 tb water
2 eggs lightly whisked


Preparation:

Place chicken drum sticks in the thermomix blades. Top up with enough water to cover the chicken.
Add onion, ginger, salt and sugar.

  at speed stir/speed 1 on Varoma for 30 mins.

Removed drum sticks and allow to cool.

Strain the broth to remove the onion and ginger.

When drumsticks are cool to touch- take the meat off the bones and put in thermomix. Chop for 3 seconds on speed 4.

Add can of creamed corn then add back broth until it reaches slightly below the max mark.

 , speed 3 on Varamo for 5 mins.

With 2 mins to go- pour in corn starch mixture slowly followd by whisked eggs.

Top with slices of spring onion if desired.

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Tips/Hints:

Yeah! To be honest I don't like avocado myself. Something about the mushy texture I reckon. Like when I bite into it- I'm expecting something else but instead I get a creamy taste. (Although salmon and avocado? Yes I will devour that with cottage cheese!)

But this icecream? I can eat it by the bucketful!

Lemon Sorbet

4 for dessert or 2 hungry people who skipped dinner and just ate sorbet ...

Ingredients:


Zest of one lemon.
210-220 g water
220-240g sugar.
1 cup of fresh lemon juice (takes about 9-10 lemons)


Preparation:

1. You could zest the lemon with a micro plane- but I just peel the lemon thinly with a sharp peeler. Then I throw in in the bowl and chop at speed 7 for 15 seconds. I scrape it down and repeat.

2. Scrape down the zest again and add the sugar. Chop for 20 seconds. I find this gets the zest really tiny.

3. Add water. Speed 3, 100 degrees for 5 minutes. Check if all the sugar is dissolved- if it isn't then cook for another 90 seconds.

Let this cool until its room temp. Once I forgot to make it so I put it in the fridge and forgot about it for 3 days. Still worked okay!

4. Add to ice-cream maker and proceed as per manufacturer’s instructions. I have a Sunbeam Gelateria. If I am lazy and let it get to luke warm it takes an hour- but when I did it straight out the fridge it took 35 minutes.

And that's it. 3 ingredients. And sorbet in under 90 mins. Awesome.


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Members' comments
jeninwa - Made this today, we loved it. I only needed 3 lemons, the recipe didn't say when to add the lemon juice, so I waited till the syrup was cold and added it then. Will be making this again.

Hi Guys

My name is jess- i am from Adelaide. I got my thermomix about a month ago. I used to love cooking- but after I got married and moved in with hubby- it wasn't so much of a fun hobby- more of a daily chore. So hubby picked up the slack and did most of the cooking- although this resulted in mostly pasta from the jars, or stir fries.

Since I got my little Robochop I have revitalised my love for cooking. I don't really follow receipes (and I have to say some of the receipes in the EDC are pretty dreadful) so I just adapted my own receipes for the thermomix.

I love how easy it makes cooking!