Pumpkin isn't just
delicious, it's a rich source
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of beta carotene which
is a powerful antioxidant
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that can protect against cancer.
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Check out Aileen's great
soup using pre-roasted pumpkin!
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Thank you Margot!
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And now I'm going to teach you
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how to make creamy
roasted pumpkin soup.
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It's a really delicious
way to eat pumpkin soup,
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and it's a very easy way.
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You just take a whole pumpkin,
wash it well and prick it
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well and put it in
the oven for about an hour
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at about 180 to 200 degrees.
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And then after an hour,
just let it sit for a while
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and it cooks in its own skin.
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When it comes time to cut
it, it's so simple and so easy.
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And it's also much more
economical because you can
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peel the skin off so much
more easily without taking
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half the pumpkin with it.
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And it's also more
flavorsome because the pumpkin
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has started to dehydrate
and roast and the flavors
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are accentuated, so
it's a really tasty way
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to eat pumpkin soup.
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This is what is
called a "Jap" pumpkin and so
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we're just peeling the skin off.
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If the skin wasn't charred,
this is a little bit charred,
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so I won't put it into
the soup, but if it wasn't
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so charred, you could
put the skin in as well.
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Now you can put the
seeds in if you want to,
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but I'm not going to
put the seeds in today.
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And it's about 750
grams, but the weight is just
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a bit of an indicator -
you don't have to do exactly
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the weight - if
you're cooking in a pot,
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you can fill the
whole pot up with pumpkin.
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So we're just going to put
in enough to make 750 grams,
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and then get rid of these seeds.
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The seeds are actually
very nutritious but they do
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affect the
consistency of the soup.
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So that's only 335, so
we've got a little way to go.
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I'm wearing gloves because
I don't want to get messy
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but you don't have to -
just wipe your hands will do.
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And then just pop this
in, it's a very quick way
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of cooking soup too
because the pumpkin is already
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cooked and it doesn't take long
for the onion and the tomato.
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So this is going to take
about half a pumpkin this time.
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It depends on the
size of your pumpkin.
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I've discovered that
there is a new pumpkin out
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called a "Potkin or
Podkin" or whatever,
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it's really beautiful
but this is the next best
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one in my opinion.
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So that's 800,
that's quite good.
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I'll just move that mess
out of the way and get rid of
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these because it's so messy.
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And then what we're
going to do is put in an onion,
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1 brown onion, 2
tomatoes, and if they're small,
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put in some more if you like.
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As I said, there's no
hard and fast rule at all.
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And then we're going
to add in 100 grams of raw
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cashew nuts which is just
short of one cup, and some
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Celtic salt - I like
to use Celtic salt because
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it's got more minerals
and it's less processed.
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The more white the salt
is, the more processed it is.
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And then we're going to add-in
just a teaspoon of Italian
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herbs, dried Italian
herbs but you can put in
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anything that you
like for flavoring.
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And then we're going to
add-in the water, so there's
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750 mls of water here.
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So just press the
scales, 750 is about 3 cups.
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How much is that? 280, hmm.
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So the more water you put in,
the thinner it's going to be,
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so that's 690, but we
can add in some more water
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later if it's too thick.
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It's always better to
err on the thick side,
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you can always thin a
soup down but you can't
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thicken it up real easily.
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So then we're going to
just cook that for about
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10 minutes because all we're
doing is cooking the onions.
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I'm just going to set the time.
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I'm going to set
it for 100 degrees.
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The beauty about cooking on
an induction stove, for instance
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if you've got
temperature control or in a
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Thermomix you
can choose your heat,
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you go over 100 degrees,
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you're destroying
some of the nutrients.
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We're just going to cook it
for about 10 minutes on speed 1.
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Now that the Thermomix
has finished cooking the soup,
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and if in a pot now, you
would transfer it into a blender
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and blend it until
it's smooth and creamy
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or until it's of the consistency
that you want to eat it.
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You might like to use a
stick blender and just give it
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a little bit of a whiz
just to have it chunky.
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It's no right or wrong way,
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it's just how
you want to eat it.
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With the Thermomix
though, you don't have
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to transfer it because it
becomes your blender as well.
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So I'm just going to
blend this up for a short time,
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just to make it quite smooth.
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Okay, let's have a little
look and see what's happening.
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You can go as smooth as
you like - if it's too thick
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for you - I'm going to
give that a little bit longer
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because the cashews
are what makes it creamy,
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and that needs to go
for around about a minute.
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So I'll let it
go for a bit longer.
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Okay, now our soup is done and
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we'll just serve
it into the bowls.
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And this is a
really creamy soup.
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It's in my recipe
book, "Rainbow Recipes,"
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and you'll also find it on
the 3ABN Australia website.
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There are also other
versions of other creamy
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winter soups in my recipe book.
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It's just basically
change the main vegetable
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and you get a different soup.
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So you can do zucchini
soup with the same ingredients,
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leave out the tomato though.
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And we just put a little bit of
parsley on just to cheer it up.
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You could put a bit of
cashew cream in there as well
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if you like and there
you are! That's our soup!
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So thank you Margot,
now it's back to you.
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What a wonderful winter warmer!
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Pumpkin soup is my favorite
and what a great recipe!
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Sometimes it's nice to
finish a meal by nibbling on
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something chewy and
Aileen's next recipe
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is a delicious treat
that also freezes for later.
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Thank you Margot and
I'm going to share with you
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a little recipe now that
I've put together because I
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moved into a house
with two macadamia nut trees
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and I never used to
like macadamia nuts,
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so I never used to buy
them, but when they were free,
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I thought I couldn't waste them.
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So we have a cup of
macadamia nuts and we're going
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to make nutty
ginger chews which are
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a nice little chewy sweet thing.
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So this is a cup
of macadamia nuts.
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Now there are two ways
you can do this - if you want
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the nuts to go away
completely, process them now
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until they become like a butter;
so if you want them crunchy
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and bitty in your
chews, then you can leave them
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crunchy and do it all together,
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all the things
together, all the ingredients.
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So I'm just going to now process
this 8 seconds to butter.
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So that will be
pretty much smooth now.
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So I want mine nice and smooth,
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so that's why I've done
it that way but you can see
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how it's all nice and
buttery in there and if I left
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it go a little bit
longer, it would be really oily.
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You want to avoid that
oily stage because you don't
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want your chews to be too oily.
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And I'm going to
put in some fresh ginger
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and 2 cups of dates.
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So first of all, 2 cups of
dates - they're just the cheap
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cooking dates, Iranian dates,
whatever you like to call them,
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and I've just given them a quick
slice through with the knife
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just to make sure
they are pitted because the
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Thermomix will grind
up the pits really well,
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but it would be a bit gritty.
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And if you don't have a
Thermomix, it's quite fine
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or use your food processor.
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I would just tend to
soak the dates a little bit
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to soften them just so that
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it doesn't put so much
load on your motor because
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the Thermomix has a
very powerful motor.
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This is fresh root
ginger, just as much of that
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as you like - if you
love ginger, put in heaps.
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If you don't like
ginger, you can leave it out,
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it's not essential
but they are called
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"nutty ginger chews," so you'd
have to rename your recipe.
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And I'm just going to
give that - just where are we,
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okay, we're just going
to give that a few seconds
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just to mix up.
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Now they're still quite
chunky - I'll just let you
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have a look at how it's going.
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You want it to be quite
smooth; you want the dates to
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like at least go completely
away, so we'll just give that
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just a little bit longer.
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And that should be just
about it and now it's ready to
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roll into balls and I'll just
give you a little look at how
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it kind of fits together.
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If it clings together like
so, then you know it's ready
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to roll into balls and
you can make them as smooth
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as you like by processing
them longer or you can
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make them as big as you
want to but just a nice way
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to finish off a meal if
you want something sweet.
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It would be nice with
a fruit platter as well.
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So I've prepared a
fruit platter here for you to
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have a little look at
different fruits and just like
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pop them on the end.
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And it is like a
beautiful treat to eat frozen.
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I store them
frozen in my freezer
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and I serve them frozen.
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It's really
delicious little bites to eat.
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So that recipe you
will find on the website,
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3ABN Australian
website or you can go to my
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cookbook to get other ideas of
different fruit and nut balls.
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Now it's back to
you, thank you Margot!
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Doesn't that make you
wish you also had a macadamia
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tree in your garden?
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I'm impressed
Aileen, that you've developed
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so many recipes using
this great Aussie nut.
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Sauces can sometimes
contain more fat and calories
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than the dish they
accompany but not this one,
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and yet it's full of flavor!
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Thank you Margot!
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And now I'm going to share with
you my recipe for golden sauce.
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It's a really tasty recipe.
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I want you to think at
this moment of the Thermomix
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as a steamer
saucepan, so we're going to put
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the ingredients for
the sauce at the bottom,
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and the veggies we're
going to steam at the top.
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Then any nutrients that
are leached from the veggies
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at the top will go down
into the sauce and so we won't
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lose any goodness.
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So into your saucepan or
your Thermomix put in 2 cups
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of water - now I suggest
if you're doing your saucepan,
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put in a bit more but not
too much because you can't
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thicken up the sauce
very well afterwards,
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but you can thin it down.
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But you don't want to
burn anything in your saucepan.
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And then for the
Thermomix, you just insert your
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simmering basket and add
in your potatoes which is
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going to be part of the
sauce, and a small carrot.
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The carrot is
not there for flavor,
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it's just there for color.
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This is going to look like
a rich creamy cheese sauce,
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but it's going to
be very good for you.
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And then you've got
some cashew nuts in there,
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100 grams which is
just short of a cup.
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And then we're going to put
the lid on and we're going to
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then put the Varoma on top which
is the steamer and we're going
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to steam the other veggies.
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So this is going to be a sauce
poured over steamed veggies.
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So we'll put in some
broccoli, now I think I said
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a head of broccoli but as
much as you want to eat really.
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If you've only got a small
family and you only want to
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cook a small amount,
just do a small amount.
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And I won't bother to use
all that because I want to use
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some cauliflower now.
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So you just pop in
some cauliflower as well,
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and this is a
really tasty sauce.
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One lady came to one of
my demos and she sat there
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with a very aggressive
body language and she said,
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"Do you mean to say that's
all that's in that sauce?"
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And I said, "Yes."
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Then I went on with the
demo and she kept coming back,
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"You mean to say that's
all that's in that sauce?"
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And she said this
like several times,
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and I patiently
said, "Yes, yes."
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And then at the end she
said, "Well I can't wait
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to see this sauce," and
then at the end when she
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tasted it, she said,
"Well it almost tastes like
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there's too much
cheese in this sauce."
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And I took her to a
church potluck and someone said,
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"I didn't take any of that,
I can't eat all that cheese,"
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and I thought, "YES! I
look normal - it's fantastic,"
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but there's no cheese in it."
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So then we're going to put
some carrots just on the top
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of the steamer - in
your steamer you can put
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them all
together if you like to.
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And I'm just
going to put the lid on.
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So what you've got in
your saucepan is your water
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and the veggies for the
sauce which is the potato
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and the cashews and the carrot.
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And then at the end, we're
going to add a little bit of
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lemon juice and
some salt to give it the
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tang like cheese has.
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I'm going to give that about
20 minutes in the Thermomix.
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However long your stove
takes to cook - just do it
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until your veggies are
tender, but the sauce veggies
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need to be quite soft.
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And then we're going
to give that 100 degrees.
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The beauty of the Thermomix
is that you can regulate
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the temperature exactly.
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On the stove, you might
get to a much higher heat.
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Now the 100 degrees is
Celsius, so you need to adjust
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that for Fahrenheit and
then we're just going to
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give it about speed
3, just to get the water
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up and cooking.
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Now the reason we've
suspended the ingredients
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in the simmer basket
above the blade is so
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it doesn't touch the blade.
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If it was to touch the
blade, the potato would cut up
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too small, too
soon and it would end up
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grainy rather
than smooth because
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if you cut the potato up
too small, it never cooks fine
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and fluffy so that's a
good thing to remember,
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otherwise you'll have
a grainy kind of sauce.
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So that is all that
we do for the 20 minutes
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it will take to cook
and then at the end we just
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blend through the rest
of the sauce ingredients
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and pour the sauce over
the veggies - and I'll show
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you that when we get to it.
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And now our
sauce should be done,
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let's just take a little look.
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When you release the
steam from the Varoma
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always tip it away from your
face so it doesn't burn you,
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and the lid
becomes the drip tray.
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So here we have our carrots
and our broccoli - perfect!
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And then our sauce, we're
just going to create the sauce.
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Now cooking in your
saucepan, you would take the
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ingredients and you would
tip them into your blender
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including the
cooking water and that then
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gets blended up
and that's the sauce.
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So we'll just pop the
handle into the basket
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and I can't quite get there.
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Tip it into the water - so
what you're doing is you're
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tipping into the water
your cashews, your carrot,
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and your potato.
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And then you're going
to add in your lemon juice,
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you may need a little bit of
extra water if it's too thick,
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but just test the
consistency first and then we'll
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add in some salt.
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Then you pop the lid on
your blender and just give it
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a minute - it's important
to let it go for about a minute
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because you want it beautiful
and silky, smooth and creamy.
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And then while that's
running, I'll just arrange
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the vegetables
onto the serving plate.
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Oh, it's just taking a
little bit of time to cool down.
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It's got a very in-built
intelligence into this machine,
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and it knows when it's
too hot to let you open it.
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Okay, here we go.
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This sauce just
looks so beautiful.
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And I don't know
anyone who has tried it
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who doesn't like it.
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Doesn't that look
like cheese? It's amazing!
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It's so smooth and creamy,
and it's all good for you.
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There are no saturated
animal fats in this and then
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just to top it off - it
will serve about 6-8 people.
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So we'll just put a little
bit of parsley over the top.
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It looks good
enough to eat, doesn't it?
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Okay, so that recipe is on
the 3ABN Australia website.
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It's also in my
"Rainbow Recipe Book."
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And now Margot, thank
you, it's back to you.
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If I hadn't tasted that
sauce, I NEVER would have
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believed such simple ingredients
could taste so delicious!
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Full marks Aileen!
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Fruits are an important
part of a healthy diet,
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and variety is as
important as quantity.
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And you can't do
better than fruit for dessert!
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In terms of
presentation, it would be hard
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to beat Aileen's fruit stack.
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Thank you Margot!
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And now what we're
going to do is make for you
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a mango and
strawberry sorbet fruit stack.
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So to start with, we're going
to start with the frozen mango,
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and a few strawberries that
are not frozen - just to give it
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a little bit of a start.
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So we'll pop just a
few strawberries in there
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and then the frozen mango.
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So this is fresh
mango that I've just frozen.
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Pop that into the Thermomix,
you can do this in your blender.
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If you're doing it in a normal
blender or food processor,
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I suggest that you let the
fruit thaw for a short time
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just to take a
load off your motor.
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And we're just going to blend
that up for about half a minute.
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And there it's quite
beautiful and lovely and creamy,
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and a beautiful
pinky-orangey color.
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It's still got a strawberry
that's frozen in there,
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and it hasn't blended, so
we'll just give it a bit longer.
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There you go, and there it is.
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Isn't that beautiful.
00:20:29.86\00:20:32.06
And now we're going to
create the fruit stack.
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So we just take one
pineapple and slice it in two.
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I'll just get a bigger
knife for that and here we go.
00:20:37.83\00:20:41.54
So just take it through the
thickest part of the pineapple.
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Cut straight
through and cut a slice.
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Okay, so we need a nice
decent size slice for that.
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And you'd cut as many
slices as you want served.
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So we're just going to do
one today but you're probably
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going to be doing a lot
more than that for a family.
00:21:05.03\00:21:08.96
So each stack would
be one served and it's a
00:21:09.00\00:21:12.90
great way to have a fruit meal.
00:21:12.93\00:21:15.10
And you can put a few
nuts with it as well and it
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would be quite a good meal.
00:21:17.91\00:21:19.44
A nice snack for after
school, your children could have
00:21:19.47\00:21:21.91
their fruit and
it would be digested
00:21:21.94\00:21:23.75
by the time dinner
comes and give them
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the energy that they need.
00:21:27.02\00:21:28.68
So there we are - we've
got a slice of pineapple
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and that forms
the base of our stack.
00:21:31.19\00:21:33.52
Then we can put on to
that some sliced fruit,
00:21:33.56\00:21:36.39
so there's some kiwi fruit
that's already been sliced,
00:21:36.42\00:21:40.40
and just create different
layers of colors and whatever
00:21:40.43\00:21:44.40
is in season for your
area you can do this with.
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If you wanted pineapple
at the base and you couldn't
00:21:48.97\00:21:52.37
get a fresh one, well
canned is okay as long as
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it's an unsweetened one.
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.35
And then we're going
to put a few layers of
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.35
banana onto the kiwi
fruit and you can cut the banana
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any way that you like.
00:22:06.82\00:22:09.26
And it just creates
a nice colorful meal.
00:22:09.29\00:22:13.70
And then we'll put on a
few strawberries I think.
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It's a great way to get
your phytochemicals and your
00:22:19.93\00:22:23.14
antioxidants.
00:22:23.17\00:22:25.44
We should to eat more colors,
00:22:25.47\00:22:26.88
and we should eat more raw
colors, so this is a great way
00:22:26.91\00:22:30.28
to get more raw colors.
00:22:30.31\00:22:32.65
And of course, you can
add as much as you like,
00:22:32.68\00:22:35.18
You don't have to limit
yourself to the portion sizes
00:22:35.22\00:22:37.59
that I'm
demonstrating here today.
00:22:37.62\00:22:39.99
And then just put some
diced or sliced mango that's
00:22:40.02\00:22:44.06
fresh off a mango seed.
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I think that's about it.
00:22:54.20\00:22:55.84
And then we're going to
put a nice decent generous
00:22:55.90\00:22:59.21
helping of mango
and strawberry sorbet.
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I'm just trying not to
let it ooze everywhere.
00:23:06.88\00:23:10.05
And stud that with
some blueberries and doesn't
00:23:10.09\00:23:13.79
that look really delicious?
00:23:13.82\00:23:15.62
And then you can put
a few extra strawberries
00:23:15.66\00:23:18.39
in there if you'd like just to
make it look a bit interesting.
00:23:18.43\00:23:23.00
And strawberries are
easy to grow at home,
00:23:23.03\00:23:25.73
so you can even
grow a few at home.
00:23:25.77\00:23:28.10
And if it all collapses,
don't worry, it's all going
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.77
to taste just as good.
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Then scatter a few extra
around just to make it look
00:23:33.14\00:23:36.44
a little less formal and
there we have our fruit stack!
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I hope you enjoy!
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Now this recipe will be on
the 3ABN Australia website,
00:23:42.32\00:23:45.85
and there are more healthy
recipes in my recipe book
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.32
"Rainbow Recipes."
00:23:48.36\00:23:49.69
Now it's back to you Margot!
00:23:49.72\00:23:51.06
Thanks Aileen!
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What a perfect
way to finish a meal.
00:23:52.66\00:23:55.90
Viewers, we hope that
you will try Aileen's recipes
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.83
even if you
don't own a Thermomix.
00:23:58.87\00:24:01.47
She has shown that
healthy food prepared simply
00:24:01.50\00:24:05.14
can look stunning
and taste delicious!
00:24:05.17\00:24:09.41