Lime Aioli with Home Made Fries
Ever thought that local pizza, (chicken, hamburger, fish and chips) lacked flavor/substance/nutrition. Well you were right on all three counts! So bookmark these tips and stop calling the pizza shop when you get home at night tired and out of ideas…and not only eat cheaper, eat better nutritionally as well.
Just got home from a five hour drive from down south of the State (Albany for the un-Australian) and having eaten rather well down there at the Festival of the Sea (Fresh sardines, oysters, yabby pies, local cheeses, seafood cooking demos etc.) unable to face a bowl of cold cereal, I quickly whipped up a batch of Lime Aioli (for which my breath will pay all week, but what a way to go!) and then cooked some homemade oven fries with Parmesan…we were eating within 40 minutes and I was nearly asleep on the couch simply waiting for the fries to be done…so;
LIME AIOLI
NEED:
3-4 cloves garlic
2 eggs seperated
1 tsp wholegrain mustard
1 tsp cider vinegar
400-500g flavorless oil
pinch sea salt
juice 1 lime
DO:
Place peeled garlic into TM bowl and chop for 4 seconds on speed 6.
Add egg yolks and mustard and insert Butterfly.
Beat for 2 minutes at 37oC on speed 4.
Add vinegar and then with blade turning at speed 4 add oil through hole in lid by drizzling slowly over a period of 4 minutes.
Add egg whites, salt and lime juice and beat briefly just to combine before scraping down sides of bowl and blending for a few more seconds.
Serve immediately with home made fries.
HOME MADE OVEN FRIES
NEED:
6-7 Ruby Lou potatoes
50g Parmesan cubed
2 tsp paprika
few tbsp plain flour
sea salt to taste
drizzle of oil
DO:
Preheat oven to 190oC. Line 2 large baking trays with paper.
Cut fries equally and dry in clean tea towel.
Place Parmesan and paprika into TM bowl and mill for 10 seconds until very fine.
Using only half the potatoes at a time, dredge with flour, salt and Parmesan mix. Repeat with other half. Divide between 2 trays, drizzle with oil and bake in hot oven until browned and crispy.
Serve while hot with Lime Aioli, and try not to spill it down your chin now…really!
Other suggestions for quick fast food at home would include Pizza Scrolls or Pizza itself, which with Thermomix is no longer challenging or time consuming. Or steam a piece of salmon, toss a salad and make a quick Gremolata to go with the salmon and suddenly those fish and chips you were thinking of look pretty darned expensive and awful!
Soup of course can be the quickest meal in the Thermomix ever, so watch this space for a few more souper ideas coming your way as the weather gets colder….if it ever does! I have an eight minute fresh soup up my sleeve that I will unveil any day now…just waiting on that temp to bottom out or at least drop a degree or 10! Until then, no more excuses for fast food days!
Nice work again – love aioli – yhe lime twist is a great idea for an Asian crudites/gado-gado style dish.
You need to re-do the gremolata a la Thermomix
Yeah the aioli is a nice pair.
Hi! I had your beautiful daughter here yesterday helping me organize my workroom! I’m sure she wanted to bolt for the door when I showed her what I needed but she was a trooper and stayed. She redid three of my fabric drawers and they look so great I’ve opened and closed them about a dozen times today – just to see how pretty they are! She is a joy to have around -I really enjoyed her – she was also here on Tuesday night for YW’s. I’m swamped this week with work or else I would have offered to take her out to “play!” Hopefully next week I’ll get a chance to do just that. I’m going to try to have her back to help finish the job as soon as I can come up for air! xo, Nan
Oh it’s so much better than fast food. I would definitely try this at home. Oh and I love the name “fast food at home” great find!
Lime aioli is a totally interesting partner for potatoes. We would’ve never thought of that.