a varoma adventure!

dinner tonight was a combined effort and was very delicious as well as quick and easy! as some of you know i have been a bit varoma phobic since some early disasters...

anyway, we wanted a fairly light dinner tonight and decided to give karenleigh's steamed dim sim recipe a go. then we decided we should try cooking the rice in the tmx basket too, and might as well steam some vegies to go with it at the same time! remembering karen's tip to add the vegies for less time this is how it went:

make dim sims as per karen's recipe (except we will leave the salt out next time, use extra soy sauce instead ;))

place them on the tray/flat part of the varoma, on a sheet of baking paper

weigh the rice in the basket as per the book (400g rice) and remove the basket (we'll add it later) and add the water (700g water) and put the lid on. place the varoma over the tmx

cook them for 5 minutes on varoma speed 3

open and place rice in bowl of tmx. place the lid and varoma back on

steam for 15 minutes on varoma speed 4

take the lid and dimsims in the varoma off carefully (very hot!) and add your chopped vegies (chop quick cooking vegies into larger pieces and slower cooking veg into smaller pieces) into the base of the varoma. place the dimsims and lid back on

cook for a further 3 1/2 minutes on varoma speed 4

check everything and cook for a further few minutes if needed

serve with soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, oyster sauce or whatever takes your fancy :)

note: we used 400g pork fillet and we have enough left to make more dimsims, though not as many as this time - we probably needed about 500g to make enough for the family for 2 dinners. i froze the leftovers in portions in ice cube trays so they'll be super quick for next time!

Steamed Dim Sims

a few new recipes thanks to one of guest bloggers - karenleigh :) (sorry i forgot to put them up sooner karen!)


Steamed Dim Sims (adapted from "Full Steam Ahead")

1 pkt of gow gee wrappers
100gm pork
1.5cm chunk of fresh ginger
3 tbsp fresh coriander
1/4 teasp salt
1/2 small brown onion
30gm swiss brown mushrooms
1 egg

Place pork and ginger into TM31 and mince 10 secs @ speed 5.

Place rest of ingredients into TM31 and process for 5 secs @ speed 5. Check mixture. Process for longer if too many chunky bits. I removed any stringy tendons in mixture.

Put 1 teasp of mince into centre of gow gee wrapper. Gather up the edges and pinch wrapper in the middle so you have a money bag shape.

Place dim sims into the top and bottom varoma trays.

Pour 600 gm of boiling water into TM31 bowl.

Steam 20 mins, Varoma @ speed 3.

Serve with soy sauce.

Makes around 30.