Thursday 28 July 2011

Soy Good!

Once I heard you could make your own soy milk in the Thermomix I was dying to try it out.  I went out for yum cha with a good friend (also a chef) and we decided that afterwards we would make something yummy in the Thermomix.  We started with the idea of soy milk and built from that, soy milk pannacottas with palm sugar syrup and poached tamarillos.  Because we decided to make our own soy milk recipe we played with the process a number of times but we pretty much settled on the following;
If you want to make a delicious refreshing warm soy milk drink:-
450g final weight, soaked soy beans (i think this was about 200g dried weight)
1.5 lt water.
Blitz the soaked soy beans for about 10 seconds, add the water and cook on 100 for 20-30 minutes on speed 3 (in that last 10 minutes the flavour evolves and the rawness really leaves it.)
Blitz on 9 for 1 minute.
Strain through a muslin cloth (or whatever you have handy!).
For making our soy milk pannacottas, follow the same procedure but use only a litre of water.
We made a palm sugar syrup with pale palm sugar and water and poached the tamarillos in it. We tasted the tamarillos raw, poached whole, poached pieces, poached for a short period, poached for ages...... and they still tasted like an overripe, bruised, tangy tomato.
But all was not lost, once we added the gelatine and some syrup to the soy milk and let it set, then served it with extra syrup they were delicous! The fresh soy milk has a totally different flavour to store bought soy milk. It tastes way better!, not nearly as nutty or strong in flavour, and not as rich to drink.
With only 2 ingredients vs 10 that are listed on a carton of Organic soy milk from my cupboard (one of which is gluten!!), AND with the cost of 1lt carton of soy milk around $3.50-$4.00 and the cost of my soy milk for 1litre came in at a grand total of .35c, its a great argument for the Thermomix saving you money.
Oh because we were experimenting for a good 3 hours, we stopped twice for refreshment breaks, once drinking the thinner soy milk with a dash of our sugar syrup, and once for espressos with a dash of our thicker version fresh soy milk.
Oh, and we will never eat tamarillos again!
the adventure continues....

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