Food Thinkers by Breville

Welcome to the Breville Food Thinkers blog & monthly e-magazine.

Full of delicious recipes, fantastic new products, helpful information and exclusive offers. Breville Food Thinkers is all about how to eat better, cook better and feel better.

Win a Kinetix Blender With Creative Gourmet Smoothie Cubes™

creative gourmet smoothie cubes

Would you like a chance to win our new BBL605 Kinetix Control Blender? Smoothie Cubes™, from Creative Gourmet, are running a 7-Day Detox Diet programme - the most creative entries, as judged by their nutritionist, are in chance of winning. Check out details at the Creative Gourmet web site and Facebook

Gelato Messina make their famous Salted Caramel in the Breville Smart Scoop

Gelato Messina's Nick Palumbo and Donato Tace tell us about the science behind a good gelato, and how to make the famous Messina Salted Caramel at home using the Breville Smart Scoop ice cream machine.

 

Chocolate Hazelnut Gelato

Makes approximately 1 litre

 

Ingredients
  • 2 cups milk
  • ½ cup chocolate hazelnut spread
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 1/3 cup caster sugar
  • 1/4 cup roasted hazelnuts, finely choped
Method
  1. Place milk, hazelnut spread and vanilla extract into a medium heavy-based saucepan. Heat until spread has melted and mixture starts to simmer.
  2. Meanwhile beat egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until pale and thick. Once milk mixture is hot, slowly whisk into the egg mixture.
  3. Clean saucepan and return mixture back to a low heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon until mixture has thickened and coats the back of the spoon.
  4. Pour mixture into a heat proof bowl, cover and refrigerate until well chilled.
  5. Pour mixture into ice cream bowl. Set ice cream maker to desired setting and churn.
  6. Add crushed hazelnuts once machine specifies to add in mix-ins.
  7. Once mixture is frozen transfer to a freezer safe container and freeze for up to 1 week.

Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Makes approximately 1 litre

 

Ingredients
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 7 egg yolks
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4cup water
  • 1 and 1/4 cups pouring cream
  • 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
Method
  1. Place milk into a medium heavy-based saucepan. Heat until milk just starts to simmer.
  2. Meanwhile beat egg yolks until pale and thickened. Once milk is hot, slowly whisk the milk into the eggs. Set aside.
  3. Combine sugar and water in saucepan and stir over low heat and stir over low heat until the sugar has softened and started to dissolve. Increase heat to a medium-high heat, brush down sides of saucepan to dissolve any sugar crystals and cook without stirring until the toffee starts to turn a rich golden colour. Remove from heat and carefully pour in cream.
    Note: Mixture may splatter at this stage.
  4. Return mixture to a low heat and stir until any lumps have dissolved. Add egg mixture and salt and cook, stirring until mixture coats the back of a wooden spoon.
  5. Pour mixture into heatproof bowl, cover and refrigerate until well chilled.
  6. Once chilled pour into ice cream bowl. Set ice cream maker to desired setting and churn.
  7. Once mixture is frozen transfer to a freezer safe container and freeze for up to 1 week.

Introducing the Smart Scoop Ice Cream Maker

There's nothing better than fresh, perfectly- textured home-made frozen treats. Making your own ice cream, gelato and frozen yoghurt is healthier and tastier than your supermarket options.

Getting the texture right for different types of mixtures can be a challenge. The new BCI600 Smart Scoop ice cream maker from Breville is the first ice cream maker that automatically senses the hardness of the mixture based on 12 preset hardness settings.

Once made the Smart Scoop has a 'keep cool' feature that will keep it ready until it's time to serve.

The bowl has a 1 litre capacity and is removable to make cleaning up convenient and easy.

The Smart Scoop will be in-store in April.

Getting the most out of your bread with Simon Baker.

Toasting tips for different breads

 

How to Cook Perfect Toast. Breville Lift and Look.

Strawberry and Vanilla Bean Jam

Makes approximately 2 ½ cups.

 

A recipe for making jam in a breadmaker

 

Ingredients
  • 500g strawberries, hulled and quartered
  • 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
  • 1 2/3 cups caster sugar
  • 2 tablespoons jamsetta
Method
  1. Combine ingredients into the pan of the bread maker. Set breadmaker to the jam setting function.
  2. Once jam has finished carefully remove pod and pour hot jam into hot sterilized jars. Seal immediately.

Toast Toppings from our Food Thinkers Readers

We asked a number of our Food Thinkers readers what their favourite toast toppings are. The result was some suggestions that are definitely worth a try!


Nutella with crushed Ferrero Rocher YUM!
- Chelsea


Avocado, tomato on toast and sometimes added cream cheese
- Stephanie


Wholemeal bread toast with avocado, balsamic vinegar, cherry tomatoes, a little bit of basil and lots of salt and pepper - hangover cure of champions!
- Jeremy


Ricotta Cinnamon & Honey (on fruit toast)
Ricotta Avocado Tomato and lots of Pepper
Pea Mint Ricotta and Chilli
- Anthony


Butter ... Lots of butter
- Lachlan


Peanut Butter and Banana for a sweet snack
- Ian


Wholemeal bread with a spread of olivani, a slice of tomato, a splatter of balsamic vinegar, and a sprinkle of salt.
- Richard


I will go with my mixed grain toast topped with cottage cheese (not the Lite version) sliced tomato with one twist of cracked pepper and a piece of sliced salmon on top to hold it all in place.
- James


Tahini and honey on dark rye
- Angela


Fig Jam and whipped cream
- Mike


Sour Cherry jam and cheddar
- Allan


Ham, beetroot and feta
- Bec


Smoked salmon and cream cheese with capers and cracked pepper (or dill/ chives)
Honey and cinnamon sugar with ricotta
- Lauren

Bruschetta

Serves 4

 

Ingredients
  • 1 french stick loaf or sourdough bread
  • 4 firm ripe tomatoes
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 bunch basil leaves
  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • Sea salt, to taste
Method
  1. Assemble the Kitchen Wizz™ Pro Food Processor with the Quad® processing blade. Place the tomatoes, garlic, basil, olive oil and sea salt and pulse until chopped.
  2. Cut bread into slices and toast in Professional 800 Collection Toaster.
  3. Once toasted spoon tomato mixture onto bread.

Passionfruit Curd

Makes approximately 2 cups.

 

This tangy tasting passionfruit pulp is delicious spooned over fruit salads or desserts.

 

Ingredients
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ¾ cup caster sugar
  • ¾ passionfruit pulp (approx 6-8)
  • 125g butter, chilled, chopped
Method
  1. Place whole eggs, yolk, sugar and passionfruit into a heatproof bowl. Place bowl over a saucepan of simmering water.
  2. Add the butter and stir continuously until mixture thickens and coats the back of a wooden spoon (about 12-15 minutes). Pour curd into sterilised jars.
  3. Refrigerate once cool.

Making Pizza at Home with Pete Evans

With a string of awards including World's Best Pizza, Hugos is now Australia's leading authority on one of our favourite foods. In this video, Executive Chef, Pete Evans offers step by step instruction on how to make his famous pepperoni pizza at home.


Win 1 of 20 Pete Evans Cook Books

My Table was the second book by award-winning chef Pete Evans. Asked to describe the book Pete says "It's all about the food I love to cook at home. When you're at home you like to cook food you genuinely enjoy and want to share with friends and family".

We are offering our Food Thinkers an opportunity to win 1 of 20 copies of this great book. To enter click on the link above and tell us:

What is your favourite pizza topping?

 

This promotion has now closed. Thank you to all those who participated.

Introducing the Pete Evans Signature Edition Pizza Maker

How do you create the crispiness of a wood-fired-oven pizza without bricks? The Pete Evans Signature Edition Pizza Maker has a ceramic stone base with surrounding elements that provide even heating.

To create the Pizza Maker Breville teamed up with world-champion pizza chef Pete Evans. Pete is passionate about pizza and he has created a book of his favourite recipes, which is included with the oven. You can click here to view many of these recipes here on Breville Food Thinkers.

When asked about the secret to making a great pizza Pete says, “Perfect pizza comes from the quality of your toppings and how hot your equipment can get. The Breville Pizza Oven solves the biggest challenges to creating a hot, crusty pizza with mouth-watering, cooked-to-perfection toppings. The ceramic stone retains heat and the top and bottom elements can heat the oven to a maximum 350 °C (something a domestic oven can’t do), recreating the effects of a traditional brick oven. It’s really so fast you can feed a family in no time at all.”

Making your own bases and using fresh, seasonal ingredients allows you to create authentic, delicious home made pizzas that are tastier and healthier than the fast-food alternative.

The Pizza Maker is a popular choice for families. Kids love cooking and making pizzas is a great way to get them involved. They can use quality produce to create simple and great flavours. It typically only takes five minutes to cook a pizza to perfection.

Tips for Making Pizzas at Home:
  • After use the pizza stone will have char marks. The ‘seasoning’ of the stone in this way adds to the flavour of the pizzas. It’s important to avoid the temptation to immerse the stone in water to clean it. Because it is porous it will absorb water and you will end up steaming your pizzas! Simply wipe the stone clean after use with a cloth, or brush it when it has cooled.
  • When adding toppings remember that they will often shrink in size under the heat of the oven so you need to be generous. Splashing out on a small amount of luxury ingredients like Italian buffalo milk mozzarella will also make a big difference to the end flavour.
  • Always remember to season your pizza with salt and pepper before placing it in the oven and try adding fresh mint, basil or rocket leaves to the pizza after cooking.

Any questions? You can ask our test kitchen for advice on using the Pizza Maker. If you have a special recipe or have had an experience to share email us. We’d love to hear from our Food Thinkers.

Keep it Simple!

Pete Evans shares his passion for Pizza.

 

My advice for making a great pizza? Keep it simple!

The food I cook in my restaurants is the type of food I love to serve at home. My kids are really into cooking and making pizza is a great way to get them involved. Get the kids to tear off fresh basil leaves or pull off chunks of Italian buffalo mozzarella to scatter over the pizza. Good quality toppings are what make the pizza, so don't skimp on them! The pizza base and cheese are as cheap as chips so you can afford to splash out on the toppings. There's nothing overly fancy about my pizzas, just simple, great flavours made by using quality, seasonal produce. And we've won best pizza in the world with them!

I have one of the BPZ500PE Pizza Makers at home and we use it all the time. It feeds a family of four for about 10 bucks. Pretty good value if you ask me! But the real rewards come from experimenting yourself. Try sweet or savoury pizzas and if you think you've knocked up a fantastic pizza, drop me an email info@peterevanschef.com.au. I love hearing about a win in the kitchen! And don't forget, some of the best results come from just having a go.

Cheers
Pete Evans

Pepperoni Pizza with Mint & Buffalo Milk Mozzarella

As featured in the BPZ500PE Pete Evans Signature Edition Pizza Maker cookbook.

 

Ingredients
  • 170g pizza dough (see here)
  • 1/3 cup pizza tomato sauce (see here)
  • 1/2 cup (40g) mozzarella cheese, shredded
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, sliced
  • 200g hot pepperoni or salami, thinly sliced (paper thin)
  • 2 teaspoons whole roasted garlic (see here), optional
  • 1 tablespoon Italian parsley, chopped
  • Chilli flakes, to taste
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

  • To Finish
  • 6 mint leaves
  • Italian buffalo mozzarella
Method
  1. Preheat Pizza Maker, setting 3 for 2-3 minutes or until hot.
  2. Roll dough ball out on a lightly floured surface until pizza base is 0.5mm thick.
  3. Pierce the pizza base all over with a fork.
  4. Turn Pizza Maker dial to setting 2 HIGH heat.
  5. Place base carefully onto 'hot' pizza stone.
  6. Spread tomato sauce over pizza base; sprinkle evenly with mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, pepperoni, garlic, parsley, and chilli flakes. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Cook pizza for 10 minutes or until the base is golden and the sides crispy.
  8. Turn off Pizza Maker and slide pizza carefully using a silicone egg flip onto a chopping board.
  9. Sprinkle with mint and buffalo mozzarella. Slice and serve.

Margherita Pizza

As featured in the BPZ500PE Pete Evans Signature Edition Pizza Maker cookbook.

 

Ingredients
  • 170g pizza dough (see here)
  • 1/3 cup pizza tomato sauce (see here)
  • 1/2 cup (40g) mozzarella cheese, shredded
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, sliced into thirds
  • 1 teaspoon whole roasted garlic (see here), optional
  • 1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
  • 1/4 teaspoon chili flakes
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

  • To Finish
  • 1-2 tablespoons parmesan, grated
  • Italian buffalo mozzarella
  • 6 basil leaves, sprinkled with oil
Method
  1. Preheat the Pizza Maker, setting 3 for 2-3 minutes or until hot.
  2. Roll dough ball out on a lightly floured surface until pizza base is 0.5mm thick.
  3. Pierce the pizza base all over with a fork.
  4. Turn Pizza Maker dial to setting 2 HIGH heat.
  5. Place base carefully onto 'hot' pizza stone.
  6. Spread tomato sauce over pizza base; sprinkle evenly with mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, garlic, parsley and chilli flakes.
  7. Season with salt and pepper.
  8. Cook pizza for 10 minutes or until the base is golden and the sides crispy.
  9. Turn off Pizza Maker and slide pizza carefully using a silicone egg flip onto a chopping board.
  10. Sprinkle pizza with parmesan and slice evenly into 6 pieces. Place a basil leaf and piece of buffalo mozzarella on each piece. Serve.

Marion's Thailand - Haw Mok Plaa

Marion introduces a favourite traditional Thai recipe

 

Recipes and Stories From a Hungry Cook

Win 1 of 5 Marion Grasby recipe books

 

If you ask Marion Grasby what her favourite food is, she'll list at least 10 things. Marion loves food. And she loves talking about it.

Now in her first cookbook Marion shares more than 80 of her favourite recipes from throughout her life: the places she's been, and the people she's met and cooked with. Marion has lived in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Queensland and South Australia, and her food is an eclectic mix of Thai, Italian, French, Middle Eastern and firmly Aussie.

These are recipes for the home cook, dishes to make every night of the week, for dinner parties and lazy afternoons. The recipes are peppered with entertaining stories and with incredible photography of the food and of Marion's travels through Australia and Thailand.

To learn more about the book and find more recipes and videos visit Marion's site at www.marionskitchen.com.

This is your chance to win one of five copies of the book. It's easy - click on the enter button and complete the form!

 

Green Prawn Curry

Recipe by Marion's Kitchen

 

Serves 4

 

This delicious recipe is one of many available from the web site of Marion's Kitchen. The Marion's Kitchen Thai green Curry pack includes many of the ingredients listed below (marked *).

You can use chicken or beef instead of the prawns. You can even make a seafood curry using prawns along with sliced calamari and mussels.

 

Ingredients
  • Green Curry Paste*
  • Coconut Milk*
  • Dried Thai Herbs & Chilli*
  • Fish Sauce*
  • Bamboo Shoots*
  • 2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
  • 300g shelled, deveined prawns
  • 1 Zucchini (sliced in half and then sliced into thick wedges)
  • Steamed rice to serve
Method
  1. Heat oil over medium heat and fry my Green Curry Paste for about a minute or until it starts to smell yummy.
  2. Now's the time to pour in the creamy Coconut Milk and 1 cup of water. Tip - if you want to make your curry less spicy, you can add an extra ½ cup water here.
  3. Then add my fragrant Dried Herbs & Chilli (leave the chilli out if you want a mild curry or chop it up if you want a spicier curry). Now add the fish sauce and wait for the curry to start simmering again.
  4. Open up those tasty Bamboo Shoots, drain away the liquid and add the shoots into the curry. Now add the prawns and zucchini and simmer for about 2 minutes or until the prawns are just cooked through.
  5. Serve with steamed rice.

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Her food range brings all the essentials for your favourite Asian dishes into one little box.

For a limited time, purchase a Breville wok, frypan or rice cooker and receive a selected Marion's Kitchen Thai gourmet meal kit.

Redeemed in participating stores whilst stocks last with a purchase from our Breville Rice Cooker, Electric Wok and Electric Frypan ranges. For terms and conditions click here.

Introducing the Control Grip™

Using a stick mixer can often be a sticky, messy business. The new Control Grip™ reduces suction meaning it's easy on the hands, but tough on food.

 



Making a simple soup with a traditional stick mixer can be hard work for your hands. Fingers held in awkward positions and the suctioning of the stick mixer to the pot are the main causes for this discomfort.

Breville's Control Grip™ Stick Mixer has an ergonomic trigger switch operation, a soft touch grip to prevent slipping, and an anti-suction blending action...all helping to ensure that your favourite comfort food is comfortable to make.

The easy clean and durable stainless steel blending leg will power through the toughest of jobs. And, to assist you even further with your food preparation, the included chopper bowl stores snuggly into the blending jug for compact storage or for use with the jug's ergonomic handle. The dual jug/chopper storage lid also doubles as a non-slip base.

Visit www.breville.com.au/controlgrip for a demonstration, designers comments and product information.

Review: The Flavour Maker

The Fig & Cherry blog tests the Flavour Maker slow cooker

 

"I am really excited to share this kitchen appliance with you as it is not often that new versions of appliances really push the boundaries" - Fig & Cherry review.

This month the food site and blog Fig & Cherry reviewed the Breville Flavour Maker slow cooker. We've been sharing the virtues of the Flavour Maker with our Food Thinkers, so many of you will be aware of the Easy-Sear pan and many other innovative features.

To read the review visit: www.figandcherry.com.

Designing a Better Espresso Machine

Breville coffee guru Phil McKnight shares his insights on the design and features of the BES900 Dual Boiler, coming in August.

 

TVC: The Variable Temperature Kettle

Because Different Teas Require Different Temperatures

 

Happy Cakes Promotion

A chance to win one of two BEM800 Scraper Mixer Pro™ Mixers with Breville and Happy Cakes

Happy Cakes - Little cakes for your happy

 

Happy Cakes in Townsville produce some of the most creative, cute and delicious cupcakes you'll ever see!

Founder Leoni Abernethy produces batch after batch of personalised, hand-decorated cakes for her discerning customers. The variety and creativity of her creations is worth seeing on her blog.

Happy Cakes reflects in many ways the same passion for food and cooking that we share at Breville Food Thinkers. As someone who really knows her mixers, Leoni put the Scraper Mixer Pro™ through its paces and provided a great review for us (see opposite).

We are offering cake fanatics the chance to win one of two BEM800 Scraper Mixer Pro™ mixers. Simply click on the link above, answer the question and you have a chance to win.

 

This promotion is now closed. Thank you to all those who entered.

Reviewing the BEM800 Scraper Mixer Pro™

Leoni from the fantastic Happy Cakes in Townsville recently road tested our Planetary Scraper Mixer Pro.

 

Mixing it up

Better mixing means better baking.

 

The latest addition to the award winning line up of Breville kitchen appliances is the revolutionary Scraper Mixer Pro™ planetary mixer which is assured to take your baking into the next level!

As in professional patisseries, the BEM800 utilises planetary action, where the attachments spin independently while making continual rotations around the bowl, to ensure that ingredients are thoroughly mixed.

This stylish mixer is armed with the highly innovative Scraper Beater, created to fold ingredients and continuously scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl. The Scraper Beater will eliminate hand scraping the bowl during mixing and therefore can cut down mixing time by up to 60 per cent.*

Featuring a high powered 1000 watt motor, electronic variable speed controls and a count-up / count-down timer, the BEM800 is the perfect synergy of precision and robustness.

Complete with a large 4.7 litre stainless bowl with a handle for easy removal and a splash guard for easily adding ingredients and prevent splattering.

A flat beater, wire whisk and dough hook have also been added to the BEM800's arsenal, programmed to teleport you to a realm where home chefs and baking reign supreme.

* tested creaming butter and sugar against standard BEM800 beater.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Makes 12

 

Ingredients
  • 125g butter, cubed
  • ¾ cup caster sugar
  • 2 x 60g eggs
  • 2 cups (300g) self raising flour, sifted
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbs vanilla essence
  • 2 tbs cocoa powder, sifted
  • ICING
  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • 40g butter
  • 2 tbs milk
Method
  1. Assemble Wizz™ Mix Professional with flat beater.
  2. Beat butter and sugar, on speed 3 until light and fluffy.
  3. Add remaining ingredients and beat on speed 4 until well combined (approx 1 min). Continue on speed 5 for a further 2-3 mins.
  4. Place 12 paper patty cases in patty pans. Preheat oven to 200C and bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
  5. Remove cup cakes from tin and allow to cool before icing.
  6. TO MAKE ICING Assemble Wizz™ Mix Professional with flat beater.
  7. Beat butter, icing sugar and milk, on speed 3 until well combined.
  8. Spread a little icing ontop of each cupcake and decorate with red heart.

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Soft Pink Icing

Recipe by Jill Jones-Evans, from her book "High Tea at The Victoria Room"

 

Makes 24 mini cupcakes

 

Ingredients
  • 250mL (1 cup) milk
  • 1 vanilla bean cut lengthways
  • 80g (½ cup) butter chopped at room temperature
  • 200g (1 cup) caster sugar
  • 1 organic free-range egg
  • 310g (2½ cups) plain flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 21 mini paper cupcake cases

  • Soft Pink Icing
  • 60g unsalted butter, at room temperature, chopped
  • 170g (1¼ cup) icing sugar
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 3 drops pink food colouring
Method
  1. Preheat oven to 170° C. Line 24-hole mini muffin tin with paper cupcake cases.
  2. In a small saucepan heat the milk and vanilla bean together until the milk just boils. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 1 hour.
  3. Remove the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds, adding to the milk, and set aside discarding the remaining vanilla pod.
  4. Assemble the Professional Wizz Planetary Mixer with the Scraper Beater.
  5. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  6. Add the egg and vanilla essence and beat well.
  7. In a separate bowl sift the flour and baking powder together then add the salt.
  8. Alternating add the flour mixture and the milk mixture to the butter mixture until well combined.
  9. Divide batter evenly amongst the 24-hole mini muffin tin. Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden and the tops spring back lightly to the touch.
  10. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  11. While cakes are cooling beat together the ingredients for the icing.
  12. Once cakes are completely cooled top with the icing.

Polka Dot Cupcakes

Makes 12

 

Ingredients
  • 125g butter
  • 125g caster sugar
  • 2 x 60g eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups (225g) self raising flour, sifted
  • 1 cup (250ml) milk
  • ICING
  • 2 cups pure icing sugar
  • 2 tsp butter, softened
  • ¼ cup hot water
  • packet smarties
Method
  1. Preheat oven to 200C.
  2. Assemble the Professional Wizz Planetary Mixer with the Scraper Beater.
  3. Using Creaming/Beating setting, beat butter and sugar until light and creamy.
  4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  5. Using Folding/Kneading setting, gradually add the flour and milk in two batches. Mix well.
  6. Place 12 paper patty cases in 12 cup patty pan. Spoon mixture evenly between patty pans.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
  8. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before icing.
  9. TO MAKE ICING: Assemble the Planetary Wizz Mixer with the scraper beater. Using the Creaming/Beating setting, beat all the icing ingredients together until butter is melted and mixture is smooth.
  10. Spoon teaspoonful of icing on top of each cupcake and smooth out with a butter knife. Decorate with smarties.

The Flavour Maker TVC

The BSC560 Flavour Maker with EasySear™ Pan

 



For optimum slow cooking you need to sear the ingredients first. It captures those rich caramelised flavours. But how do you take food from stovetop to slow cooker without leaving the flavours behind in the pan?

Breville's 7 litre EasySear&trade pan retains more flavour - take it straight from stove to slow cooker to keep the flavours and juices created during searing for tastier casseroles and full flavoured meats that just melt in your mouth. And, you only need to wash one pan.

An automatic setting has dinner ready when you get home, and the non-stick pan makes washing even easier than cooking.

Lamb Shanks in Tomato Sauce

Serves 6

 

Ingredients
  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • 8 large French-cut lamb shanks, trimmed of fat
  • 2 medium spanish onions, sliced
  • 400g button mushrooms, sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 x 800g can tomatoes, chopped
  • 1/3 cup tomato paste
  • 1/3 cup sun-dried tomato pesto
  • 1 cup red wine
  • ½ cup sweet sherry
  • 4 beef stock cubes, crumbled
  • Fresh rosemary, chopped
Method
  1. Heat a little oil in the EasySear pan. Add lamb shanks 2-3 at a time, cook over medium heat until well browned. Drain on paper towel.
  2. Add onion to the pan, cook until onion is soft. Stir in mushrooms and garlic, cook for 2-3 minutes. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, pesto, wine, sherry, stock cube and rosemary, stir and cook for 1-2 minutes.
  3. Place shanks and tomate mixture in the EasySear pan of the Meal Maker. Cover with lid and cook on Low 8-10 hours or High 4-6 hours.

Designer's Comments - A Better Food Processor

Designer Keith Hensell talks about the Kitchen Wizz™ Pro.