Lazy Porridge

Now it is getting a bit colder in the mornings, its nice to have some creamy porridge for breakfast with a bit of fruit...and the obligatory nespresso of course. This morning I used the chip recipe to cook porridge for myself and the boys. Its so easy to do, just whack the ingredients in and turn the dial, simple as that!

Ingredients pre-cook

Since I usually just make the porridge for myself and the boys, I do half the recipe. This is the good thing about following the chip, you can use it as a guide and make little changes if you wish. So if there is a certain ingredient you don't like, or have an allergy to, and it doesn't make a huge difference to the recipe you can substitute it. Or, as I have done this morning, halved the recipe.

The usual rule for making half a recipe is to decrease the cooking time by 20%. Its easy to alter, just tap the time button and decrease the cooking time, and continue as normal with the temperature and speed as suggested on the chip.

The porridge is lovely and creamy and cooked just perfectly. I usually add either banana or some diced apple and a little bit of brown sugar or honey. Sometimes I add the banana with the ingredients and cook it into the porridge. Its also lovely to add the diced apple and a bit of cinnamon to the mixture instead of putting it on top raw and the end. The boys loved the porridge today. Its definitely easier than making it the traditional way on the stove top, standing there mixing, and even sometimes accidentally burning the milk on the bottom of the pan when getting distracted (I may or may not have done this a few times!).

Cooked porridge

The final product

Clean up is easy too. The Thermomix is "self-cleaning", simply by filling approximately halfway and adding a small drop of detergent, then doing a couple of bursts on turbo, most of the food will come off. Depending on what you are making you can then rinse it out, dry with a tea towel and continue on with your cooking. Most of the time though I do take the bowl apart and give the blades a good clean with a bottle cleaning brush.

And rule number one of thermomixing...always put the bowl and blades back together before putting them back into the base unit!

Happy thermomixing!