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I love all-in-one meals in the Thermomix and this one has quickly become a favourite in the various iterations of testing. It takes classics like chicken, leeks and dijon mustard to make a tasty everyday dish – add in some vegetables and you’ve got a complete meal.
Leveraging the Thermomix’s ability to cook different components of the meal at the same time, I steam the chicken and vegetables in the Varoma while the sauce cooks in the Thermomix bowl. The sauce is made with leeks, garlic, stock concentrate, milk, Dijon mustard and parsley. It gets an extra kick of flavour as the chicken and vegetables cook in the Varoma. This recipe also includes a super easy technique for chopping parsley in the Thermomix.
Chicken and Vegetables with Leek and Mustard Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 bunch parsley leaves only
- 1 large leek white part only, cut into 2cm pieces (~100g after chopping)
- 1 clove garlic peeled
- 15 g olive oil
- 30 g Thermomix vegetable stock concentrate
- 50 g milk
- 2 carrots peeled and cut into 1cm pieces
- 4 cups broccoli florets
- 600 g chicken thighs fat trimmed and quartered
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- Chop the parsley but turning on the Thermomix to Speed 7 and dropping the leaves onto the spinning blades and then turning it off as soon as the last leaves hit the blades; remove to a bowl
- Rinse out the Thermomix, add leeks and garlic and chop with the measuring cup (MC) on for 4 seconds | Speed 5
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add olive oil (15g) and sauté with the MC off for 4 minutes | Varoma | Speed 1
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add stock concentrate (30g) , 250g of water and milk (50g) into the Thermomix bowl and close the lid
- Lay out the chicken thighs in a single layer on the Varoma tray and put carrots into the Varoma bowl; assemble and place on top of the Thermomix
- Cook for 15 minutes | Varoma | Speed 2
- Remove the Varoma, add broccoli to the Varoma bowl, assemble Varoma back onto the Thermomix and cook for 5 minutes/Varoma/Speed 2 (or until the chicken is cooked)
- Remove the Varoma, add mustard to the Thermomix bowl and blend for 30 seconds – going slowly from Speed 1 to Speed 8
- Stir parsley leaves through the sauce, season with salt and pepper and serve over the chicken and vegetables
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Serving Suggestions
1. For a larger meal, serve with steamed basmati rice
[Last updated: August 17, 2014]
delish!! made with normal brown onion as I didnt have any leek, hubby loved it
thanks!
Glad to here it worked with the onion too – I usually have more of those in the fridge than leeks!