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Thermomix® Creme Egg Fudge

I love our Thermomix® fudge recipe and it’s something we make often in varying ways. We make a jelly bean fudge and a glace cherry one and even a TimTam fudge and a bunch of others too, so I decided today to try it with Creme Eggs and well, it’s crazy sweet, but it’s delicious and the kids love our Creme Egg Fudge.Thermomix® Creme Egg Fudge

The nice thing about this fudge is that with the creme eggs melting into the fudge it flavours the fudge so you’re not having fudge with creme eggs, you’re actually having creme egg flavoured fudge. It’s yummo!

If you can’t get mini eggs for the decoration, put two eggs in the fridge (you want the yolk to be more solid). Put the thermomix on speed 5 then drop the egg through the open lid. (Quickly cover it again so it doesn’t fly all around the kitchen and hit you in the face!) Chop for 5 seconds or so as you want large chunks, not fine chocolate dust!)

Thermomix® Creme Egg Fudge

Enjoy and happy Easter!

 

Thermomix® Cadbury Creme Egg Fudge
 
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Serves: 50 pieces
Ingredients
  • 1 can condensed milk
  • 250g white sugar
  • 25g golden syrup
  • 125g butter
  • 200g cadbury's eggs (5 eggs) + 2 eggs or 89g bag of mini eggs for decoration
Instructions
  1. Instructions
  2. Add condensed milk, sugar, syrup and butter to the Thermomix® bowl.
  3. Cook without MC at 100C speed 3 for 8 mins.
  4. Scrape down sides if needed, then cook Veroma, 20 mins speed 3 still without MC.
  5. Add whole chocolage eggs and mix on speed 3, reverse blades for 20 seconds.
  6. Working quickly, pour the mixture into a brownie tray. Wait two to three minutes for the mixture to cool down a little (otherwise the mini chocolate eggs will just melt into it) then split the mini eggs in halves and press them into the fudge. (Alternatively smash two large eggs roughly and then push the parts into the fudge)
  7. Refrigerate for 3 -4 hours, cut and store in the fridge in an airtight container.

 

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Chicken Broth Stellette Soup

Chicken Stellette Soup

I’ve been struggling with a winter cold for weeks now and while I’m normally an ‘it will pass’ kind of sick person, I’m about at the end of my tether with this particular cold, so it’s definitely time to dig out the big guns – in this case a chicken broth stellette soup.

The chicken in this recipe is already cooked, left over from Sunday lunch and it’s worth mentioning that the ratios of the spring onions, mushrooms, chicken and pasta can vary. It won’t hugely affect the end result, and it’s better than leaving a random mushroom alone in the punnet in the fridge!
Chicken Broth Stellette Soup

Mushrooms are great for colds and flues apparently, containing cytokines that play an important role in defending the body against viral infections and tumours and help boost the immune system. And I’ve read conflicting advice about the consumption of mushrooms, but it seems that in order to get the most nutrition from them, they must be cooked otherwise they’re undigestable.

According to Chinese medicine, spring onion is good for expelling a winter cold, especially if consumed within the first two days of the cold.

Parsley has high levels of Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, and betacarotene that boosts the immune system of the body and protects it from colds, cough, and other infections.

Chicken is rich in a compound called carnosine, and it’s this that studies suggest helps reduce that stuffy, congested feeling in your nose and throat.

I also like using Stellette or Stelline pasta as they are small and don’t require much chewing and small enough to swallow (great when you have a sore throat) and then they are kind of pretty too!

I might try adding ginger and garlic next time too, not only because of the health benefits but because they might add a little extra flavour kick at a time when you can’t taste much!

 

 

Chicken Stellette Soup
 
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Recipe type: Soup, Broth
Serves: 2 cups
Ingredients
  • 500ml chicken stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 spring onions, chopped
  • 1-2 cups white mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 shredded chicken breast
  • ½ cup stellette soup pasta
  • 125ml dry white wine
  • 3-5 stalks fresh parsley
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Place the chicken stock and bay leaf in the Thermomix® and heat Varoma/Speed 2/ 2 minutes/Reverse Speed
  2. Add the spring onions, the mushrooms and pasta to the pot and cook Varoma/Speed 2/5 minutes/Reverse Speed
  3. Add dry white wine & parsley and cook for a further 2 minutes/Varoma/Speed 2/Reverse
  4. Remove the bay leaf, add salt and pepper to taste and serve.
Regular instructions
  1. Place the chicken broth and bay leaf in a pot and bring to the boil
  2. Add the spring onions, the mushrooms and pasta to the pot and boil for 8 minutes
  3. Add dry white wine & parsley and boil for another 3 minutes
  4. Remove the bay leaf, add salt and pepper to taste and serve.

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DIY Chilli Salt Edible Gifting

Over the summer our local supermarket was selling off a bunch of live chilli plants, and even though I really don’t like chilli – except in hot chocolate – I love the splashes of red against the deep green leaves and I love the brightness it introduces to my kitchen. The plant itself is one of those that gives more the more you take from it, so we’ve had a healthy harvest of chillies over the last few months, and I’ve been giving them away to anyone who’d have them. I did decide to keep a few though, because I wanted to give one of my chilli-loving friends a little gift of chilli salt.

We use Himalayan pink salt which I tend to bulk buy as it lasts forever, and we use salt for some non-food purposes that make good gifting ideas too, and I can crush it as we need it. I also wasn’t sure how dry the chilli gets itself just by lying on the windowsill, so I popped them in the dehydrator for a few hours till the chillies were properly dry. (They crackle when you snap them.)

I also put the chillies into the Thermomix® (food processor) first so they can be chopped up before I add the salt because I didn’t want the crystals to be broken down too fine.

Just one note here – when you’re blending this up in your food processor, make sure to cover any airholes (in a safe manner). If the air fills up with chilli salt, it’s not a whole lot of fun on your nose or throat or eyes!

I’ve decorated empty herb and spice and other jar lids with washi tape to make it prettier and as these will go into a festive food hamper, I’ve done them in Christmassy colours.

 

DIY Chilli Salt
 
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Serves: 350g
Ingredients
  • 300g Coarse Himalayan Salt
  • 20- 25 small chillies, dried
Instructions
  1. In a food processor chop the dried chillies till they are as fine as you'd like them
  2. (Thermomix®: PUT THE MC IN PLACE, 10 seconds/speed 5)
  3. Add the coarse pink salt and mix again. Don't make it too fine.
  4. (Thermomix®: MC still in, 10 seconds/speed 5)
  5. Use a funnel or similar to pour into dry containers and keep sealed.