Honeycrisp Apple Sauce

Honeycrisp apple sauce

 

 

This recipe can be used with any kind of apple.  Use your favourite!  Made with only apples, cinnamon and water.  This applesauce costs more to make than it does to buy in the store but in my opinion it tastes much better than anything you can buy.  It is also naturally sweet, chemical and preservative free.  Worth the effort!

Ingredients

·         4 large eating apples

·         75 grams of water

·         1 tsp cinnamon (use as much/as little as you like)

Instructions

1.       Core the apples, leave peel on and cut into quarters.  Place the apple pieces into the TM bowl with the water and chop for 30 seconds on speed 4.

2.       Scrape down the sides of the bowl with the spatula.  Cook for 8 minutes at 90 degrees on speed 4.

3.       Blend for 30 seconds on speed 8.

General Tips

Store in the refrigerator in glass jars for upto 3 weeks.  This is a great substitute for butter in baking too, usually I will use half butter and half applesauce but you can replace all of the butter with applesauce if you wish.  Check out this link for more info:

 http://www.fitsugar.com/How-Substitute-Applesauce-Butter-Eggs-25207483

Recipe from Everyday Cooking

 

 Vegetable stock concentrate

 

 

This is one of my all-time favourite things to make in my Thermomix.  It keeps for 4 months in the fridge, and can easily be frozen.  I use this in soups, risottos, stews, and love adding a little to the water when making rice.   Recipe from Everyday Cooking for Every Family

Ingredients

·         4 sticks of celery, roughly chopped, keep leaves on

·         2 carrots, roughly chopped

·         1 onion, peeled and cut in half

·         1 tomato, halved

·         1 zucchini, roughly chopped

·         1 clove garlic, peeled

·         1 bay leaf

·         1 bunch of fresh parsley

·         Few leaves of each basil, sage and rosemary

·         150 g rock salt

·         1 tbsp olive oil

 

Instructions

1.       Place all vegetables in TM bowl and chop for 10 seconds, speed 6.

2.       Add salt and oil and cook for 20 minutes at Varoma temperature on speed 1.  Place simmering basket on top of lid instead of measuring cup.  Place measuring cup on lid before step 3.

3.       Mix by slowly turning the speed dial to speed 6 then pulverising for 1 minute on speed 9.

4.       Store jar in the refrigerator

General Tips

Use 1 tbsp of stock paste to 500 ml water, or 1 tbsp to replace one stock cube.

The high salt content is what preserves this paste, so if you reduce the salt content it will reduce the shelf life of this paste.