Many Tips to use better your Thermomix

Rice flour
Ingredients:
From 150 gr. to 500 gr. of rice

Preparation:
Put the rice the Thermomix bowl, close lid. Program 1 minute, progressive speed 5-10. The first 20 seconds keep the speed 5 and then gradually take it to speed 10.
Pour the flour in an airtight container or jar thoroughly clean and dry glass.

Uses of the Varoma

As wringer and to remove the excess liquid from food.
You can wring everything, from a salad to fish washing to remove excess liquid. In addition, for salads, if you put the lid Varoma you can shake to remove excess water as if it was a colander
For the pasta or vegetables for whatever you want to drain.
Reconstitute precooked vacuumed food. Not only in restaurants are capable of regenerating precooked, vacuum-packed let the Themomix do it for you ,take it home an use the varoma's steam to do so.

To clean the blades.

The blades also can remove food at low speeds. The speed spoon along with the reverse activated removes food as if it were a wooden spoon, pure delicacy!
In addition Thermomix has kneading function and this function will help us knead dough activating the feature at any speed. Especially when we prepare doughs they can stay glued to the blades which makes cleaning more of a chore. To avoid this, the first step is to spin the remains glued to the blades giving one or two strokes turbo speed selector.
But what happens when after that it continues being attached to the blades remains. With the help of an old toothbrush, will allow us to access the remotest corners of the blades so you can clean them well.
1. Put the bowl of the Thermomix in water until just above the blades and add a few drops of usual washing up liquid.
2. program 5 minutes, temperature 37º, speed 3
3. Reprogram 20 seconds progressive speed 7-10.
4. Rinse under running tap water.
5. Remove the blades and we carefully cleaning each "little corner" of the blades In the remote and inaccessible corners.

Melting chocolate

Ingredients:
- 250 gr. chocolate to melt
Preparation:
Chop the chocolate into more or less regular pieces, put it in the Thermomix and crush 10 seconds, speed 7.
Program 4 minutes, 37º, speed 3.
Open the lid and with the help of the spatula push down the remains of sides into the blades. We return to program 1 minutes, 37º, speed 3.

Blanch tomatoes in varoma

Ingredients:
- 250 ml. of water;
- 1 kg of tomatoes.

Preparation:
We do a few cuts at the base of the tomatoes with a sharp knife and place the Varoma cuts facing up.
Add water in the bowl and program 8 minutes Varoma temperature, speed 1. Remove the tomatoes and remove the skin when tepid.

How to prepare pepper oil

The powerful blades of the Thermomix we have prepared an intense green peppers Italian oil that have not needed strain because it has crushed pepper so well, giving the oil a nice green color.
Once prepared put it in a bottle of cooking or an airtight pot and always keep that on hand to spice up a good red meat, white fish or even potatoes, zucchini or carrots grilled or boiled or cooked in the Varoma.

Ingredients:
- 150 ml. of extra virgin olive oil;
- 2 Italian green peppers
Preparation:
Put the oil in the Thermomix and add the pepper cut into pieces. Schedule 1 minute progressive speed 5-10
We put this oil in a bottle or sealed pot and put in the refrigerator for better conservation

How to prepare salt ham

The salt will serve ham seasoning and seasoning for many dishes and recipes and also perfectly preserved for a long time, we'll just keep it in a tightly covered glass jar and we will always have it ready when needed.

To prepare the spanish ham first drying it out and then crush them with our Thermomix.

Ingredients:
- 2 slices of ham duritas
Preparation:
We put the slices of ham on a plate and put in the microwave 2 minutes at full power.
We toss the slices in the Thermomix glass and pulverize in closed position with three turbo blows.

Mince meat
The minced meat is used worldwide, gastronomies throughout the world use it and include it in their dishes.
Minced meat is usually prepared with a mincer and found with no problems in our usual shops and butchers. Beef, chicken, pork, ... but it is not so common to find you minced lamb?
For a minced lamb meat use the best quality boneless leg or shoulder.

Ingredients:
- One leg or boneless lamb shoulder

Preparation:
Cut the meat into regular pieces and remove any fat or hardness.
For more uniform chopped freeze one hour before using it. THe meat will be firmer and it will be easier for your Thermomix.
Pour the meat in the Thermomix and schedule without time progressive speed 5-7-9.
In about a minute we have some minced lamb.

How to peel garlic
This is going to be helpful when we need to peel at least ahead of garlic. Not all the cloves will be perfect, but it all depends what you are going to use them for.

Ingredientes:
1 head of garlic;
1 litre of water;

Preparation
Separate the cloves and put them in the Thermomix. Add the water. Program 5-6 seconds, reverse, speed 4. leave it to rest a couple of minutes and the skins will end up floating and the cloves will be at the bottom of the bowl. We will drain them and dry them with kitchen towel. Keep in the fridge in a plastic bag or glass sealed jar.

Remove dough from the bowl easily

Once we have made the dough we can take it out of the bowl of the Thermomix turning it on a floured counter or table. When the bowl is upside down we can tun the bearings of the blades with your hands (the outside) and turn from side to side. The dough will come out in a single ball.

How to make liquid caramel

Ingredients:
- 50 gr. inverted sugar
- 200 gr. brown sugar
- 100 gr. of water

Preparation:
We put in the bowl the inverted sugar and brown sugar and program 5 minutes, 100º, speed 1.
Add the water and add another 5 minutes, 100º, speed 2 now.
Add another 5 minutes, now in temperature Varoma, speed 2 and instead of placing the measuring cup we place the simmering basket to evaporate the content.
Pour it into a jar close tightly, cover and let cool.

THERE YOU ARE A FEW TRICKS!