Hot Recipe for a Chilly Morning: Thermomix Porridge
We’ve been having a really weird Fall this year – or as one would more likely say here in England, the autumn weather has been rather unusual, hasn’t it? One minute it’s as warm and humid as an April day, and the next it’s as clear and crisp as Fall in New England. And somewhere in between the rain and wind kicks in while the temperature drops, and we’re right back where we should be – weather wise, that is – for early December.
For me at any rate, this which-way-is-up attitude makes mornings in general and breakfasts in particular rather difficult. What’s it like outside? What should I wear today? And whatever am I going to feel like for breakfast?
My standard, one-size-fits-all answer is my really hot recipe for a chilly morning: Thermomix porridge. It’s so fast and easy even a child could make it, so it’s a good one to teach your kids! And so much healthier than out-of-the-box dry cereals with their added salt and sugar. Also, according to Channel 4’s The Food Hospital, whole oats such as porridge oats are a good source of soluble dietary fibre that can help reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
With Thermomix porridge you have total control of what you put into your body, plus you get the added bonus of having Thermomix make it for you while you’re getting ready!
Here’s how I do it: I go down to the kitchen and make a cup of tea. While my tea is steeping, I weigh my ingredients into my Thermomix bowl. There are only three basic ingredients so I can almost do it in my sleep, which is usually the case when I’m not awake yet 😉 When my tea is ready, I turn the Thermomix on to cook and stir my porridge, grab my tea and run upstairs to take a shower. And bingo! I get out of the shower just in time to hear my trusty Thermomix sing to me that my breakfast is ready. Now that’s what I call timing!
Thermomix Porridge
Recipe from Fast and Easy Cooking, the 300-recipe cookbook included with every Thermomix TM31 purchased from UK Thermomix. Serves one but quantities easily multiplied for more servings. Cook same timings for up to 3 servings; adjust timings slightly for more servings.
Ingredients
30 g porridge oats, per person
180 g water or milk or a mixture of water and milk, per person
¼ tsp salt, per person
optional: your choice of topping such as raisins or sultanas; brown sugar; maple syrup; milk; cream; etc.
Method
- Place first three ingredients in Thermomix bowl and cook 100° C/6 minutes/Speed Spoon/Reverse Blade Direction. Note: to have that extra minute to take a proper shower, I cook 90° C/7 minutes/Speed Spoon/Reverse Blade Direction. Serve plain or with the topping of your choice.
In her best-selling book, Changing Habits, Changing Lives (Penguin Books Australia, May 2000), Australian nutritionist and Thermomix aficionado Cyndi O’Meara offers up her New Age Porridge to start the day right. Cyndi adds currants, grated apple and chopped banana to a water-based porridge and serves with syrup or honey, or roasted seeds and yoghurt.
Whichever way you serve it, Thermomix porridge has got to be the simplest, fastest and easiest way to fuel your body with something warm, delicious and good for you!
Bon appétit !
Bonjour, Tanya! Thanks so much for reading Why is There Air and thanks for your question about the Thermomix Measuring Cup! Your first information resource is always your Thermomix advisor, as they will have the latest information from Vorwerk. I haven’t been an advisor for nearly two years now and I’m sure Vorwerk Thermomix will have the best answer for you.
In the meantime, take a look at my post on this cleverly designed feature here
https://www.whyisthereair.com/2011/09/11/know-your-thermomix-lid-and-measuring-cup/
and at my answer to a previous reader question, here:
As a general rule, you ALWAYS use the MC when your Thermomix is in operation, with the exception of when you are steaming with the Varoma sitting on top of the lid. The Measuring Cup is an integral part of the Thermomix lid for blending, mixing and chopping functions. The tapered flange of the TM31 MC (that ring around the middle) and the little skirt of the TM5 measuring cup create a gap through which steam can escape while you’re cooking and through which you can pour liquids like when you’re making a mayonnaise or just need to add a bit more liquid to something. The MC also enables you to measure liquids (50 ml to the middle flange; 100 ml to the very top) and small amounts of solids like nuts and seeds.
If a recipe doesn’t mention the MC, use it. Recipes generally will mention the MC if you need to do something different with it, like place it at an angle to allow more steam to escape during cooking, or replacing it with the internal steaming basket when reducing a liquid (to let even more steam escape while stopping spatters).
So to answer your initial question, Tanya, yes, you put the measuring cup on the lid of your Thermomix while making porridge 😉
Your Measuring Cup is your friend and I know there are lots more tips readers will have so please let Tanya know some of them by leaving a comment here or on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Why-is-There-Air/137609556277263
Happy Thermomix cooking!
Bonjour, Madame Thermomix. Do you leave the MC on or off when cooking porridge? And do you have any tips in general for leaving the MC on or off? Thank you!
Hey hey, winking right backatchoo, Helene! I love my Thermomix porridge in a warm bowl. Yum!
Easy peasy and so healthy too! Thermomix really is a super breakfast-making machine isn’t it? I LOVE the bowl warming idea. The little red temp. light on that photo makes it look like the Thermomix is winking at us 😉 Bravo — thank you Madame!