REVIEW OF MAGIMIX DOUGH HOOK XL & RECIPE
REVIEW OF MAGIMIX DOUGH HOOK XL & RECIPE
It is not everyday that I get very excited about a new tool, but I am really impressed with the new Magimix Dough Hook XL. Not only does it live up to its advertised capacity of being able to knead dough up to 1.6kg without its motor overheating, but more than that, what really tickled my fancy is its ability to knead dough gently as if I am kneading the dough by hand.
This new Magimix Dough Hook XL kneads the 1.6kg dough so gently without creating heat hence it does not oxidise the dough. It also collects the dough and ‘lifts’ the dough up above the blade, creating a ball of dough (see various pictures in my recipe below) and therefore prevents the chopping off of the gluten as the dough is directly moving above the blade.
I managed to mix and knead three lots of 1.6kg dough one after another and the bowl and dough hook remained cool with no overheating of the motor observed.
So let’s give this amazing tool a work out with this new recipe..
http://wildsourdough.com.au/recipe/review-magimix-dough-hook-recipe-sourdough-purple-and-heirloom-ancient-wheat-grains/
REVIEW OF MAGIMIX DOUGH HOOK XL & RECIPE
Cake, Wild Sourdough Spelt or Khorasan Christmas Cake
Wild Sourdough Spelt or Khorasan Christmas Cake BY HAND
VEGAN option: use vegan butter/margarine
Gluten Free option: use brown rice starter (avail from my website) and Gluten Free plain flour
I always adore making and eating fruit cake, so creating this recipe was a joy. This cake has the texture of a classic Christmas cake – dense and complex in flavour, which is what you want for an exceptional and easy-to-digest Christmas cake. You do have the option to add a teaspoon of baking powder to make this cake lighter but it is not essential. This recipe is versatile so you can change the dried fruit mix (about 325–400g) to suit your taste. One combination I love is dried pear, hazelnut and ground cardamom.
The method is quite simple, just like making any traditional butter cake. The white sourdough starter is added at the end of the mixing before the addition of fruits and nuts. The long fermentation allows pre-digestion of gluten, fat and sugar. You can use wheat instead of spelt or kamut/khorasan. Khorasan is worth a try, because for some people this unhybridised/ancient wheat is easier to digest than modern wheat. However, please consult your medical practitioner for advice.
NOTE: This cake is full of fruit, so the cake mixture will not double in size. If you prefer a more complex flavoured cake, you need to make this cake 1–2 months before Christmas.
Use the best quality organic dried fruit you can buy!
Cake, Wild Sourdough Spelt or Khorasan Christmas Cake
This is a dense fruitcake which has a more complex flavour than traditional fruitcake because it is naturally fermented with sourdough culture.
It is naturally easier to digest than a traditional fruit cake. This cake relies on the sweetness of the dried fruit rather than refined sugar.
Servings: 20 cake
Ingredients
Fruit and Liqueur mixture - prepare at least a day before and up to 2 months
- 125 grams small dark raisins (muscatels) or sultanas
- 75 grams dried black cherries or cranberries
- 25 grams candied peels (candied orange and candied citron)
- 50 grams dried apricots
- 50 grams dried figs
- 50 grams activated nuts of your choice optional
- 50 grams brandy, whisky or your liqueur of choice
Flour and spice mixture
- 125 grams organic white spelt flour or khorasan flour You can use wheat if you prefer
- 1-2 tsp mixed spice Speculaas spice is a favorite
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger or cloves optional
- 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
Butter mixture
- 125 grams butter, softened at room temperature
- 150 grams dark brown or rapadura sugar
- 150 grams Raw sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean split lengthwise and scraped
- 3 large organic eggs (150g without shell) at room temperature
- 250 grams white spelt or kamut sourdough starter
- 25 grams molasses
Instructions
Mix fruit and liqueur
- Prepare the fruit and liqueur mixture at least a day before you plan to make the Christmas cake. You can also prepare the mixture a few weeks beforehand for a stronger flavour. Mix the ingredients together and leave to marinate at least overnight. The next day, drain the mixture, separating it into fruit and liquid. The fruit will be added to the cake, while the liquid will be used to glaze it once baked.
Mix ingredients
- Put the flour and spice mixture ingredients in a large bowl and whisk until the flour mixture is well distributed. Put aside. Beat/Whisk soft butter, the two sugars and vanilla in a bowl until light and creamy. This will take a few minutes by hand. Scrape down sides frequently to make sure the ingredients are well mixed. Slowly add eggs one by one and stop mixing once the mixture looks curdled. Scrape sides of bowl. Add sourdough starter and molasses and mix well but gently. Scrape sides of bowl. Gently mix in the pre-mixed flour and spice mixture. Do not over-mix or you will end up with a tough cake. Scrape sides of bowl. Cover and ferment your cake mixture for 4–6 hours. The cake mixture will rise about 1¼–1½ its original volume.
Prepare cake tins
- Line cake tins with butter then line with silicone coated baking or parchment paper (e.g. Gladbake). You have the option of using: • 20cm diameter (8in) round cake tin – each holds 1kg of mixture, or • 2 x 12.5cm (5in) round cake tin – each holds 500–550g of mixture, or • 8–10 muffins – each holds 120–150g of mixture.
Add and mix
- Add drained fruit to fermented cake mixture, making sure the fruit is well distributed. If you have decided to use baking powder to make the cake lighter, add the baking powder now. I prefer the cake without the baking powder as I like my fruitcake dense. Pour into lined tin or tins. You should only fill two-thirds of the tin or the cake mixture will overflow during baking.
Bake
- Put the cake inside a cold oven and set the temperature to 165°C (329°F). Here are the baking times depending on the size of cake tin you used: For 20cm (8in) tins Bake on lower third rack for 45 minutes at initial temperature of 165°C (329°F). Then reduce heat to 150°C (302°F) and bake for a further 1 ½–2 hours until golden brown. If the cake top browns too quickly, cover it with aluminium foil. For 12.5cm (5in) tins Bake on lower third rack for 1 hour 15 minutes at initial temperature of 165°C (329°F). For muffins Bake on lower third rack for 40–45 minutes at initial temperature of 165°C (329°F). Remove cake from the oven and brush generously with the leftover liqueur. You can brush your cake with any liqueur of your choice (brandy, rum, whisky, Cointreau) every few days for a month before Christmas. This will make your cake so delicious and moist.
Rest
- Leave to cool before cutting. Best kept wrapped tightly in waxed paper and aluminium foil. Leave in the coolest part of your house and it will keep for 1–2 months or alternatively it can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Hainan Chicken Rice (Chinese Steam Chicken and Rice)
Hainan Chicken Rice (Chinese Steam Chicken and Rice)
This is one of my favourite easy meal, but I usually have to dirty a big pot to cook the chicken, a rice cooker to cook the rice plus another small saucepan to cook the sauce.
Well, this recipe is an all in one recipe in your Magimix CE, and the best part you can multi-task while it is cooking away!
Once you are familiar with this recipe you can be more adventurous and make coconut turmeric rice instead by substituting 400ml of the water for cooking the rice with a can of coconut milk and add 1tsp of turmeric powder into the steaming liquid.
Hainan Chicken Rice (Chinese Steam Chicken and Rice)
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
Steam chicken
- 1.2-1.5 kg organic/free range chicken no bigger than 1.5kg or it will not fit in the steamer basket
- 1-2 slices fresh ginger
- 2 tbs chinese shao xing wine optional, available from Chinese Grocery stores
- 1.5 litre filtered water
Steam rice
- 300 g thai jasmine or long grain rice
- 1 tsp Murray River pink salt flakes or good quality sea salt
- left over stock from steaming chicken RESERVE 3tbs for sauce
- enough filtered water to make up 1.5 litre
Soy sauce mixture for chicken
- 3 tbs chicken stock from steaming chicken
- 2 tbs light (not dark/roasted) sesame seed oil preferably organic
- 2 tbs gluten free Kikkoman soy sauce or wheat free Tamari
- 2 tbs good quality Fish sauce
- 1 clove organic local garlic optional
Instructions
Steam Chicken
- Using the steamer basket, put a good quality 1.3-1.5kg free range (and organic chicken), breast side up. Add 1.5 litre of water in the CE bowl. See pic
- Using the steam function, cook for around 45mins. Test for doneness using a thermometer, the thickest part of the chicken should read 75C to make sure that the chicken is cooked. If it's not cooked through or you can still see blood in the cavity of chicken, steam some more and test again after 10-15mins. Do not over-cooked your chicken.
- Take chicken out to rest in a plate or clean chopping board, and cover. Keep warm if you have a double wall stainless steel serving bowl.
Steamed Rice
- You need to top up the left over stock (water) to about 1.5 litre and add 1tsp of pink salt flakes or Maldon sea salt. Add 300g of washed long grain jasmine rice, and place rice in the steamer basket. Using the Cook Expert function, turn it on to: 30min, speed 7, 115C.
- Fluff up (stir) your rice and check to make sure the water/stock is back up at 1.5 litres and turn it back on to 15min, speed 7, 115C.
- Rice should be cooked and fluffy by now, if not cook for another 10-15 minutes until rice is cooked. Take out rice basket onto a plate and put the chicken on top to warm, while you make the soy sauce mixture for the chicken
Soy sauce mixture for chicken
- Remove the reminder of the liquid from steaming the rice and discard
- Add all ingredients and blitz for a minute until garlic is finely chopped
Quick Banana Chocolate and Walnut Loaf – spelt or khorasan or gluten free
Quick Banana Chocolate and Walnut Loaf – spelt or khorasan or gluten free
This is a banana bread extraordinaire, soft, moist and caramely, the secret is using bananas which have been left to ripened with brown spots all over them. I use Billington Light Muscovado sugar which is unrefined cane sugar but you can use organic raw, rapadura or palm/coconut sugar, which will give you a slightly denser texture but won’t change its delicious taste.
It takes just under 2 minutes to mix in your Magimix CE Food Processor. This loaf batter is runny so do not panic!
You can also make this glutenfree by substituting the flour with your preferred glutenfree flour mixture.
You will need a medium size heavy bread baking tin, mine measures 11cm wide x 25cm length x 10cm height
Quick Banana Chocolate and Walnut Loaf - spelt or khorasan or gluten free
spelt/khorasan or gluten free banana walnut loaf
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 4 medium or 3 large banana, very ripe see above comments
- 4 eggs organic and free range
- 220-250 g light brown sugar see above comments
- 200 ml Creme fraiche or sour cream full cream not skim
- 80 ml extra virgin olive oil
- 275 g white spelt flour if using khorasan, use 225g instead
- 1 tsp Bicarb soda/sodium bicarbonate
- 2 tsp Baking powder gluten and aluminium free
- 1/4 tsp Sea salt
- 125 g Dark Couverture choc chips
- 75-100 g lightly toasted pecan or walnuts activated if possible
Instructions
- Line your loaf tin with silicon baking paper. Preheat your oven to 165C Blitz flour, bicarb and baking powder for 30 seconds in your Food Processor large bowl, then set aside on a piece of baking paper Put in banana, eggs, salt and sugar in your Food Processor large bowl, speed 9, for 1 min. Add sourcream and oil and blitz for 30 seconds. Add flour mixture and blitz for 20-30 seconds until mixed. Add choc chips and pecan or walnut pieces and mix for 10-20 seconds. Pour into your tin, making sure it is no more than half full or it will overflow during baking Bake in a pre-heated 165C oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean
How to ROAST NUTS, make NUT BUTTER and NUT & CHOCOLATE SPREAD
How to ROAST NUTS, make NUT BUTTER and NUT & CHOCOLATE SPREAD
How often have you tried to roast nuts and within a split second of loss attention, all your precious organic nuts are burnt? Well I have done it many times as I have a very short attention span. I don’t know of any domestic machine which can roast nuts beautifully, ie. High enough temperature and continuous stirring to bring out the beautiful aroma of roasted nuts without burning it and with minimal crushing/mincing into little pieces or turning it into nut butter unintentionally.
Review of Cook Expert (Magimix)
Review of Cook Expert (Magimix)
I love beautiful kitchen tools: from garlic crushers , knives to machines of all kinds, lucky for me collecting them comes with my job! When I spotted an advertising in one of my cooking magazines I subscribe to, I was very excited to see a machine that does both the cooking (like a Thermomix) and cutting mandoline slices and shredding veggies (like Magimix).
Sprouted Quinoa Spelt Sourdough – A Masterclass With Yoke
Sprouted Quinoa Spelt Sourdough – A Masterclass With Yoke
What a blistery day in Perth it is today – is there a better way than to spend time inside baking and in my case, rising my dough, writing and reminiscing about baking… i did bake three loaves later this afternoon, from dough i made five days ago.
this is my gift for you, a step by step with photos of my ultra delicious and nutritious, Sprouted Quinoa Spelt Sourdough loaf – published today inside Australian Baking Business magazine, June/July edition.
Yoke’s quick 2 min lacto fermented snack: brown rice sushi w sauerkraut & gomashion drizzle of kombucha miso vinaigrette
Yoke’s quick 2 min lacto fermented snack: brown rice sushi w sauerkraut & gomashion drizzle of kombucha miso vinaigrette
Okay I generally eat a huge breakfast, and an after school lunch & dinner with my daughter and no dinner (have done this over 15 years). the reason for this is not because i want to loose weight but because i can’t sleep if i eat a big meal so close to my (very early) bed time.
Some things are worth waiting for…
Some things are worth waiting for…
I am sure you can relate to this…i left my sourdough panettone retarding in the fridge for almost 2 weeks – no excuse, but i had been very busy. two early mornings ago, i added the alcohol infused dried fruits, shaped into the panettone mould, then continued to rise it in a covered container – hoping that by evening time, it was fully risen and ready to bake (say 12 hours rise). well – 6pm that night, I had a look and the dough did not move at all!!!
Gluten Free Sourdough
Gluten Free Sourdough
The last few days have been very very exciting days, i have finally created my first few gluten free sourdough creations…here is a picture of one of them, crispy delicious gluten free sourdough brown rice and coconut waffle!
More coming…