Juicing : Watermelon and Apple Juice

It was a stressful day but i come home to a good power jar of thermomix juice.

Juicing had never been so fun and fulfilling.

Ingredients : 

1/2 portion of small watermelon, cut into pieces

3 apples, decored and cut into pieces.

Ice cubes 

Method :

1. Prepare all ingredient. Watermelon cut into pieces. Apples de-cored and cut into pieces. See photo below.

2. Put all fruits into thermo jug.

3. Add in ice cubes. I added 1 whole tray of ice.

4.Close the lid. Turn the knob to speed 10 for 30-45 seconds. The sound is loud because the ice are being crushed but dont freak out... Juice is coming your way ok..

5. Open the lid, juice is done, you will see some cold mist coming out like smoke. Thats the coldness of ice but the juice tasted so refreshing.

6. Ready to be serve. Just so delicious. Perfect for chilling out at night. 

Give it a try! Enjoy :) 

Other interesting combination to try : 

Top 5 Fruit Juices
Apple and Pear
Apple, Pear & Pineapple
Orange and Grapefruit
Apple and Watermelon
Cranberry, Grape and Prune

Lunchbox of the day : Steamed lady fingers & baby corns with anchovies and Steamed batang fish meat

Today i prepared lunch box for myself and my husband. Very simple but healthy lunchbox (Steamed lady fingers & baby corns with anchovies and Steamed batang fish meat with white rice).

Ingredient : baby corn, lady fingers, ginger, garlic, goji berries, soy sauce, cooking wine, batang fish meat, chilli, sesame oil, pepper

1. Rinse rice in rice basket. Put baby corn into rice basket. 

2. Prepare fish ingredients. Mix cut ginger, garlic, goji berries, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper and sesame oil to batang fish meat in a metal plate. Place metal plate with above onto thermomix cooking tray. 

3. Put to cook, 20 minutes, varoma, speed 2.

4. When time is left 6 minutes, put lady fingers and anchovies to steam until beep sound is heard.

5. Ready to be served and packed into lunch boxes.

Dessert : Thermomix Azuki Red Bean Soup

Yesterday was Deepavali and i was really bored at home, so i decided to experiment with cooking Azuki Red Bean Soup. Conventionally, cooking red bean soup in slow cooker requires long duration (eg 4 hours)  Thankfully, with thermomix, cooking red bean soup is easy and time needed is much shorter. Due to the ad-hoc decision of making the soup, i did not use full ingredient to prepare the soup. Missing ingredients are : longan, lotus seed, orange peel, sago.

My version was purely red bean but it tasted great afterall.

1. First, we have red bean in hand. 

2. For two person, i used 1.5 bowl of red beans and soaked them in water for 4 hours. (disclaimer : this is to help to reduce bloating, but i am not sure.)

3. Fill in750-800 g water in thermo jug. Put water to boil for 6 minutes, 100 degrees, Speed 2.

3. Add in red beans in thermo jug. Close the lid and put to boil and cook it again for 45-60 minutes, 100 degrees, speed 2.

4. After you hear the beep sound, time is up, open the lid, add in sugar to preference. Close the lid, turn speed knob from 1-10. By then, the red bean blends well with sugar. 

5. Pour red beans to two small bowls. Total servings is 4 small bowls. Add in fresh milk/coconut milk to preference. 

6. Ready to be served. 

Next attempt, i shall add orange peel to boil to enhance the aroma, sago to make the soup thicker and lotus seed and longan to make it complete!