Banana Pineapple bread

IAdapted from
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/moist-pineapple-banana-bread

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar (1c brown And 1c White)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1-1/4 cups canola oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained ( blitzed with thermomix together with banana)
• 2 cups mashed ripe bananas (4 to 5 medium
• 1/2 cup of walnuts

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and vanilla; add pineapple and bananas. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Pour into two greased 8-in. x 4-in. loaf pans.
2. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves (16 slices each). 

Originally published as Pineapple Banana Bread in Quick Cooking May/June 2001, p37

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Ingredients

• 600g chicken thigh fillets, cut into 2cm diced, coat with flour and salt, set aside
• 4tbsp of vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 large onion, cut into thin wedges
• 1 green capsicum, sliced
• 1 can of pineapple , drained with juice reserved
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 tbsp of tomato paste
• 1 tbsp of sugar 
• 3 tbsp white vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 tbsp cornflour combined with 1 tbsp water

Method:
1. Shallow fry the chicken strips in batches. Set aside on a paper towel
2. Whisk the pineapple juice, tomato paste, sugar, white vinegar, soy sauce and Worcestershire Sauce in a bowl
3. Heat 2 tbsp of oil and stir fry the garlic and onions till fragrant.
4. Add in the chicken, capsicum, pineapples.
5. Stir in the sauce and cook until capsicum are done
6. stir in the cornflour and water as the final step and cook till sauce thicken. My family likes lots of sauce so i lessen the cornflour to make a runny sauce.

 I think it is a decent meal for the family. I served this with a nice pot of cabbage soup.

Pineapple Tart Pastry- Must Keep Recipe

My dear friend from UK shared this recipe for pineapple tart pastry. It is the best I had tried so far after testing 3 recipes in total. I love my pastry soft and crumbly and this recipe nailed it. I tweaked it a little to make it even softer by incorporating cake flour. Results are perfect!

Ingredients:
250gm butter diced into small cubes
3 egg yolks
1 1/3 cup of cake flour
2 1/2 cup of white flour
3 tbs corn flour
6tbs icing sugar
1/2 tsp salt

this makes enough for my previous pineapple tart jam with extra jam to spare. Next time I will make extra one more batch of this recipe.

Method.
Sieve all dry ingredients together. I double sieved them
I mix butter and sugar together first in the Thermomix bowl just until nicely incorporated. The I add the yolk one by one and then the dry ingredient
I use the turbo button to mix them up into crumbly texture
Pour the mixture out and use your fingers to bring them together
I separate my dough into 3 large disc and freeze them as I am only using them a week later.
To use, bring them to soften at room temperature and roll them into 1/2 cm.
Use a cookie cutter or pineapple tart cutter to cut the shapes.
Place rolled jam into the cut dough and bake at 180C for 12 minutes or until golden brown at the edges
you can use the egg wash to have a nicer golden look but I was too lazy to go through that step. \

Pineapple Tart Jam

 

This is the season of pineapple tart making and I never find more love for the Thermomix than this time.

Pineapple tarts are laborious and tiring via the traditional method as it requires hours of cooking the jam down to a nice thick jam-like consistency. I have been making pineapple tarts using the Thermomix for 2 years now and it has never been easier.

This time I did it in bulk as I am very familiar with the process. We bought 4 medium size fresh pineapple and cut down into rough sizes. I added a tin of store bought pineapple slices just to increase the volume.

Ingredients:
- 2.5 kg of pineapple flesh. Cut and cored (~ 4 medium size pineapples)
- 1 tin of pineapple slices (optional)
- 500gms of sugar
- 8 cloves

Method:
1. Chop the pineapple via Thermomix Speed 6 for a few seconds. You want a puree consistency
2. I did this is batches and then I sieve the pineapple through a strainer to get rid of as much juice possible
3. Save the juice for consumption or cooking
4. After sieving all the pineapple, it will easily fit into the Thermomix. I cooked this for 30 minutes, Varoma, Speed 1. I need to place the Varoma tray on top to get most of the steam out and to avoid a messy splatter
5. Look out for a nice jam-like consistency and a lightly brown colour. I like my jam abit soft so it just melts into your mouth.

 Weighing the pineapples with the Thermomix.

 The amount of juice extracted from the pineapples.

 The flesh that will be cooking in the Thermomix

the final product.

Now to get a spot on shortcrust pastry to go with it

Stir Fry Pineapple Chicken

Monday's dinner was simple stir fry and omelet.

Lots of peppers and the sauce is very easy and tasty to make. Cut the sugar down to make it more sour. Kids like it overall, had extra for lunch today.

1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablespoon ketchup
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into 2 inch strips
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 (16 ounce) package frozen stir fry vegetables
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained, reserve 1/4 cup juice
hot cooked rice

http://chinese.food.com/recipe/chicken-pineapple-stir-fry-24306

Directions:

1
Mix first 7 ingredients with reserved 1/4 cup pineapple juice in small bowl.
2
In large skillet, stir-fry chicken in hot oil 5 minutes.
3
Add vegetables, stir-fry 4 more minutes.
4
Stir in pineapple and sauce, heat through.
5
Serve over rice.

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