I read that asparagus has many health benefits so I have decided to add it as a part of my healthy diet.
Here are some of the benefits of asparagus. It can detoxify our system, has anti-aging functions, can protect against cancer, reduces pain and inflammation, can prevent osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, can help prevent birth defects, is considered an aphrodisiac and especially as heart disease is very common now asparagus can help to reduce the risk of heart disease as it has a good source of folate which helps to regulate the amino acid homocysteine, which in high levels can be a strong risk factor in heart disease.
I find that by using THERMOMIX to stir fry my asparagus, it helps to retain the nutrients as the machine does not heat up to more than 110 degree and still stays green and fresh when it is ready to be served.
I would like to share here a very simple and easy to cook asparagus.
Ingredients:
300 gm asparagus
50 gm Japanese mushrooms
Small pc of ginger
2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp of miso to taste
Method:
1. Place a small pc of ginger into TM bowl and use TURBO speed for 1 sec to chop it up
2. Add in 2 tsp of olive oil and set temperature to 100, time to 5 mins, speed at stir fry and remember to use reverse mode to avoid vege being chopped up
3. After 1 minute, remove measuring cup to add in asparagus without removing the cover.
Replace MC when all asparagus have been added.
4. After 4 minutes remove MC again and add in the mushrooms.
5. At last 30 sec add in a tsp of miso
6. Remove immediately from TM bowl and serve immediately. Notice that vege is still fresh
green in color.
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Notice that asparagus still stay freshly green
after frying
I had a bunch of bananas and their skin were already turning black. It cannot be kept for another day as they will be dropping off one by one and will go bad. I put the whole bunch in a plastic bag and kept them in the freezer overnight. Next morning I removed them from the freezer and the skin could be peeled off very easily. Cut them into halves and placed in the blender. I did not have to add anything extra and just had to pulverized them from speed 1-10 for one minute and a bowl of extra creamy banana ice-cream is ready as a dessert.
There was a bowl leftover and after one week, I took it out from the freezer and again could easily break them up into a few pieces to be placed in the blender and pulverize from speed 1-10 for half a minute. The taste is even more creamy and delicious.
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I have never attempted to make mushroom soup before as I feel that it is too much of a hassle having to weigh, cook and then to blend. However, today I felt like a very wholesome and chunky bowl of Mushroom soup. There isn't enough kick, even with the "chunky" commercial soup out there, so I decided to make my own using my new machine - Thermomix! The super machine that can weigh, blend and cook all the ingredients in one place.
Ingredients:
1 small onion
1 packet of button mushrooms, about 300 gm
1 bay leaf
20 gm soy milk
400 gm water
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt and a dash of pepper to taste
Method:
1. Cut onion and mushrooms into thick slices
2. Fry them in olive oil for 2 mins at medium (scale 4) at 100 degrees
3. Add in 400 gm water and cook for 10 minutes at speed 2 at 100 degrees
4. Add in 20 gm soy milk and blend at high (scale 9) slowly increasing it from speed 1 for 2 minutes
5. Add in salt and before serving add a dash of pepper
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Pumpkin has got good nutritional value and normally the way I prepare it would be to just cut them up into cubes and cook them by itself which is tasty enough and also that has been the way that I have been cooking all these years. Now with my new blender, I can try to prepare my pumpkin in a different way which is simple fast and delicious. Pumpkin is not only loaded with vitamin A, C, K, E and antioxidant carotenoids, it also contains magnesium, phosphorus, iron, folate, potassium, manganese, copper, B6, riboflavin, niacin, thiamin and pantothenic acid — and is low in salt, cholesterol and saturated fat.
Pumpkin has been known to be called the Wonder Veggie and here is a very simple method to prepare this fantastic dish by thermomix.
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Ingredients:
250 gm pumpkin (remove skin and sliced into thick pieces)
250 gm water
6 pcs toasted cashew nuts
Method:
1. Pan fry pumpkin pieces in a non-stick pan over a slow flame until both sides are slightly burnt.
2. Cut them up into cubes and place them into the blender for 15 seconds on medium high (speed 7).
3. Boil for 20 minutes at minimum stirring (very slowly at speed 1).
4. When cooked, add blended cashew nuts (blend for 20 seconds by increasing the speed slowly from low to high).
5. Garnish and serve immediately.
We like smoothie very much and used to get them from Boost Juice which is quite expensive. Now with a good blender (thermomix), a glass of smoothie of your choice of fruits can be prepared in just a minute. So from now onwards, whatever leftover fruits, just leave them in the freezer and the following day just blend them and you can have a healthy glass of smoothie at no extra cost. What I have mixed this time is my leftover pineapple and bananas.
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My healthy glass of smoothie
Organic Soy
2 pieces of pineapple
2 bananas
Ingredients:
1/2 glass of organic soy
2 pieces of frozen pineapple
2 bananas
Method:
Place all ingredients into the blender and blend one minute by increasing speed slowly from low to high (speed 2 - 9).
Garnish and serve immediately.
Two avid vegetarians are here to share some insights to the world of vegetarianism.
Hopefully, through this site, the lives of some animals can be spared. Always remember, animals have feelings too, they are our friends not our meal.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin has got good nutritional value and normally the way I prepare it would be to just cut them up into cubes and cook them by itself which is tasty enough and also that has been the way that I have been cooking all these years. Now with my new blender, I can try to prepare my pumpkin in a different way which is simple fast and delicious. Pumpkin is not only loaded with vitamin A, C, K, E and antioxidant carotenoids, it also contains magnesium, phosphorus, iron, folate, potassium, manganese, copper, B6, riboflavin, niacin, thiamin and pantothenic acid — and is low in salt, cholesterol and saturated fat.
Remove skin and fry on non-stick pan
Cashew Nuts
Organic Soy
2 bananas
Ingredients:
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