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Easy Chicken Pasta

This year I’ve made the Steggles pledge to #MakeTime for my loved ones by having more family meals together at the dining table!

We get so caught up in routine and it can be so chaotic in the evenings that we usually have three different mealtimes and eating areas – the girls eating on the high chairs in the kitchen while I prepare dinner for everyone else, the boys eating at their kids table, then @mrtwinsandablog and I eating on the couch once the kids have gone to bed!

Growing up, I remember eating at the table together with my family every night and it was a great way to connect and spend time as a family every day!

I made a @Steggles roast chicken in the morning, had a busy day then quickly put together the pasta ingredients in the afternoon so we could eat dinner together.

What do you pledge for this year? More time for mindfulness, more time for cooking at home, or more time for loved ones? #sp

Easy Chicken Pasta

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Ingredients

1.9kg @Steggles Family Roast Chicken
3 garlic cloves
5 sprigs fresh rosemary
Olive oil
2 tbsp taco seasoning
500gm Farfalle pasta (cooked)
2 cups frozen peas/carrots/corn (cooked)
200ml sour cream
Salt and pepper to season

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place chicken in a roasting pan.

Stuff garlic cloves + 4 sprigs rosemary in chicken cavity.

Rub chicken with oil, taco seasoning rosemary (remove leaves from sprig).

Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour 15 mins.

Remove foil and bake for a further 15 minutes to brown the skin.

Remove chicken from oven and allow to cool.

Once cooled, shred half the chicken and stir together with pasta, frozen vegetables, sour cream and salt & pepper.

Notes

You can use the whole chicken or half the chicken - I like to use the other half of the chicken for chicken sandwiches/pizza/toasties the next day!

January 17, 2019 By Sophia Brown

Baking/ Cake/ Chocolate/ Snacks/ Thermomix

30 Second Chocolate Banana Slice

My favourite recipes are the ones where you chuck in all the ingredients and mix! This is light, fluffy, chocolate-y with a hint of banana, and very very easy to eat!

This is the first recipe I’ve created since finding out I’m pregnant with my 2nd lot of twins as I’ve been feeling sooo sick and uncomfortable this pregnancy (moreso than with the boys!)! Was a quick and easy way to use up the 2 lonely overripe banana’s on my bench!

Add all ingredients to bowl.

Mix 30 seconds/Speed 4.

Spoon and spread batter into a slice tin.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Cool before cutting up into squares.

30 Second Chocolate Banana Slice

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Ingredients

2 x bananas
180 grams self raising flour
120 grams butter
120 grams sugar
100 grams dark chocolate chips
20 grams cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste/extract
1 x egg

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

Add all ingredients to bowl. Mix 30 seconds/Speed 4.

Spoon and spread batter into a slice tin.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Cool before cutting up into squares.

April 29, 2017 By Sophia Brown

Baking/ Healthy/ Thermomix

10 Second Apricot and Coconut Cookies

I love a quick and delicious recipe! You can literally whip these up in the morning during breakfast time for the coming day! These are firm and not too crumbly for little fingers to hold easily.

Add all ingredients to bowl.

Mix 10 seconds/Speed 5.

Roll teaspoon sized balls onto a lined baking tray.

Bake for 8 minutes or until brown.

10 Second Apricot and Coconut Cookies

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Ingredients

220 grams wholemeal self raising flour
130 grams coconut oil
100 grams coconut sugar
80 grams dried apricots
40 grams desiccated coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste/extract
1 x egg

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Add all ingredients to bowl. Mix 10 seconds/Speed 5.

Roll teaspoon sized balls onto a lined baking tray.

Bake for 8 minutes or until brown.

December 7, 2016 By Sophia Brown

Baking/ Chocolate/ Thermomix

Easy Oreo Brownies

My pantry always has Oreo’s in it, as my husband and I always loooove buying them on sale, but never end up eating them! This is a quick and delicious way of using Oreo’s and it looks amazing!

Add all ingredients to bowl.

Mix 20 seconds/Speed 5.

Pour and spread into slice pan.

Press Oreo’s into batter.

Bake for approximately 18 minutes.

Cool and cut into squares around the Oreo’s.

(Optional) Serve dusted with icing sugar.

Easy Oreo Brownies

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Ingredients

170 grams plain flour
150 grams oil (rice bran, veg, coconut etc)
150 grams brown sugar
100 grams milk
50 grams cocoa powder
1 x egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 x packet Oreos

Instructions

Preheat oven to 170 degrees.

Add all ingredients to bowl. Mix 20 seconds/Speed 5.

Pour and spread into slice pan.

Press Oreo's into batter.

Bake for approximately 18 minutes.

Cool and cut into squares around the Oreo's.

(Optional) Serve dusted with icing sugar.

November 19, 2016 By Sophia Brown

Main Meal/ Thermomix

Simple Egg Sandwich Filling

This is my quick and easy lunch solution, especially if I have minimal ingredients at home! My husband and boys love this!! My husband loves his very SIMPLE egg sandwiches (if he makes it himself it is literally just eggs + store bought mayo) however he also loves it with the extra spring onions and occasionally with 1 teaspoon of Keens Curry Powder.

Add water in bowl, and eggs in steaming basket. Cook 14 minutes/Varoma/Speed 1.

Empty water from bowl, and peel eggs under cold running water.

Add spring onions to bowl.

Blitz 3 seconds/Speed 7.

Add eggs, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

Blitz 3 seconds/Speed 4.

Simple Egg Sandwich Filling

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Ingredients

1 litre water
4 x eggs
2 x spring onions (roughly chopped)
100 grams mayonnaise
Sat and pepper to season

Instructions

Add water in bowl, and eggs in steaming basket. Cook 14 minutes/Varoma/Speed 1.

Empty water from bowl, and peel eggs under cold running water.

Add spring onions to bowl. Blitz 3 seconds/Speed 7.

Add eggs, mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Blitz 3 seconds/Speed 4.

Notes

*Fills approx. 4 sandwiches. **You can change this up by adding 1 teaspoon Keens Curry Powder for Curried Egg Sandwiches, mustard, paprika, grated cheese, or veg like carrots or celery in with the spring onions.

November 17, 2016 By Sophia Brown

Christmas/ Dessert/ Non Thermomix/ Thermomix

No Bake Mango Mousse Slice

This is my mum’s recipe that I have grown up with!! My family has this regularly when Mango’s are in season! This is a refreshing and delicious dessert, snack or a ‘bring a plate’ dish in summer! It is a super simple dish and a hit with everyone in the family!!

Prepare and add mangoes into a large baking pan/roasting tray.

Add the 2 x jelly packets, gelatine powder and water in bowl.

Heat 4 minutes/50 degrees/Speed 2.

Add evaporated milk and eggs.

Mix 10 seconds/Speed 4.

Pour over mangoes and set in fridge overnight.

Cut up in slices and serve chilled.

No Bake Mango Mousse Slice

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Ingredients

2 mangoes (peeled, seed removed and roughly diced)
1 x packet pineapple jelly
1 x packet orange jelly
10 grams gelatine powder
500 grams water
1 x can evaporated milk (approx. 375 grams)
2 x eggs

Instructions

METHOD (THERMOMIX):

Prepare and add mangoes into a large baking pan/roasting tray.

Add the 2 x jelly packets, gelatine powder and water in bowl. Heat 4 minutes/50 degrees/Speed 2.

Add evaporated milk and eggs. Mix 10 seconds/Speed 4.

Pour over mangoes and set in fridge overnight.

Cut up in slices and serve chilled.

METHOD (NON THERMOMIX):

Prepare and add mangoes into a large baking pan/roasting tray.

Add the 2 x jelly packets, gelatine powder in a large bowl. Mix with 500 grams boiling water until jelly crystals dissolve.

Add evaporated milk and eggs and mix until mixture well combined.

Pour over mangoes and set in fridge overnight.

Cut up in slices and serve chilled.

Notes

*This works with other flavours of jelly - however it looks better with orange/yellow coloured jelly - i.e. lemon, mango, passionfruit, pineapple, orange.

November 16, 2016 By Sophia Brown