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Asian Chicken Meatball Soup with Noodles and Vegetables

Place noodles in a small solid stainless steel tray with two cups of water. Place carrot and snow peas in the small perforated stainless steel tray. Put both the noodles and vegetables into a cold Neff FullSteam Oven, select FullSteam 100°C and cook for 2 minutes. Remove noodles and leave to soak in water for 5 minutes, then drain. Remove vegetables and set aside. Combine chicken mince, ginger, chilli sauce, coriander and cornflour and mix well. Roll teaspoons of the mixture into balls. Place meatballs on the large perforated stainless steel tray lined with baking paper. In a 4L capacity stainless steel bowl or tray, add the chicken stock, white pepper and lemon grass. Place both the meat balls and stock mixture in the Neff FullSteam oven, select FullSteam 100°C and cook for 10 minutes. Add the meatballs, vegetables, noodles, soy sauce and sesame oil to the stock mixture. Season the soup with salt if desired. Cook soup on FullSteam 100°C for a further 2 minutes. Ladle the soup into individual serving bowls and garnish with spring onions.

Butterflied Chicken with Preserved Lemon, Garlic & Thyme

Line a universal pan with baking paper. Gently massage butter into chicken under the skin and over the skin. Massage olive oil over outside of chicken and season with salt and pepper. Place whole garlic cloves, preserved lemon and thyme under the skin of breast and drumsticks. Place chicken onto prepared universal pan; place onto level 3. Insert meat probe into chicken breast. Set oven to CircoRoasting® 200°C, core temperature 76°C, low steam. The oven will turn off when the core temperature has been reached (approximate cooking time is 40 minutes). The result is a beautifully cooked, moist and golden chicken!

Chicken Korma Curry

Place all the curry paste ingredients into a blender. Process until it becomes a fine paste. Place the curry paste in a medium sized saucepan and cook on Induction level 6, stirring continuously until it becomes aromatic, add coconut milk and cream and stir well to ensure the curry paste is not sticking to the base of the saucepan. Increase the Induction level to 7.5 and bring to the boil. Meanwhile cut each chicken thigh into 6-8 pieces. Add the chicken to the saucepan and season with salt to taste. Reduce Induction level to 5 and simmer for 20 - 30 minutes, uncovered or until chicken is tender. Garnish with coriander and serve with steamed Basmati rice and warm naan.

Honey Roasted Pork Fillet with Grilled Figs

Place the pork in a large bowl. Add the oil, honey, vinegar, garlic, shallot, lemon rind and juice, thyme, salt and pepper. Stir to combine and then marinate the pork for at least two hours in the refrigerator. Preheat the oven on CircoRoasting® to 190°C with VarioSteam® level 1. Remove the pork from the marinade and place on a shallow baking dish. Insert the MultiPoint MeatProbe into the thickest part of the pork and set the internal temperature to 65 – 68°C. Set minute minder for 15 minutes to remind you to add the figs. While the pork is cooking add figs to the marinade. After pork has cooked for 15 minutes, place the figs around the pork cut side up and pour over all of the marinade. Cook until internal temperature is reached or until pork is cooked to desired doneness. Remove pork from the oven and allow to rest. Figs can be returned to the oven to further caramelise if desired. Serve pork sliced on the diagonal with figs and spoon over sauce.

Fig Leaf Infused Custard with Toffee Figs

Place 10 x 150ml metal dariole moulds on the large perforated tray and set aside. Place milk and cream in a medium saucepan and warm over moderate heat. Add sugar, vanilla bean and scraped seeds. Roll the fig leaves up to release the flavour. Add to saucepan. Bring to a simmer then remove from heat; set aside for flavours to infuse. Whisk eggs and yolks together in a large bowl and set aside. To make the caramel, place sugar and water into a small saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and bring to boil without stirring. Use a clean pastry brush dipped in water to wipe away any sugar crystals that form at the sides of the saucepan. When the caramel starts to turn golden brown, remove from heat. Divide caramel between dariole moulds to coat the bases. Pour cream mixture through a fine sieve into the eggs and whisk to combine. Carefully pour into the moulds to fill. Cover each mould with a piece of aluminium foil, placed shiny side down and press edges together to seal. Place the custards into the oven on level 3; select FullSteam 90°C. Select 25 minutes. Remove custards from oven. Allow to cool, then place in fridge for 1 hour to cool completely. To serve, unmould the fig custards by dipping the moulds in hot water. Run a small flexible spatula around the rim to help loosen the custard and invert onto a small serving plate. Press the cut side of the fig halves in sugar to coat. Use a blowtorch to caramelise the figs and serve with the custard. Garnish with chopped hazelnuts.

Caramel fig bread and butter pudding

To make the caramel sauce, place caster sugar and water in a saucepan and stir on Induction level 5 until sugar dissolves. If needed use a wet pastry brush to remove sugar crystals from the side of the saucepan. Increase the Induction level to 6/7 to bring mixture to the boil. Continue to boil, uncovered and without stirring until the mixture turns golden. This will take about 10 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat and with a wooden spoon, mix in the brown sugar. Carefully stir in the cream until well combined. Return to Induction level 6 and cook for 2 minutes until caramel is smooth. Remove from heat and stir through the salt. Allow to cool. Butter the bread, cut slices into quarters and arrange in a 2 litre baking dish. Combine fig slices with 5 tablespoons of the cooled caramel, gently toss to coat the figs and then press the fig slices between the bread. Add the milk, cream, eggs, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon to the same bowl and whisk together. Pour the mixture over the bread and leave to soak for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven on CircoTherm® 160°C with VarioSteam® level 2. Drizzle another 2 tablespoon of the caramel sauce over the bread and butter pudding. Cook the pudding for 50 minutes or until golden and puffed. Serve with extra sliced figs, remaining caramel sauce and double cream.

Chocolate Chilli Truffle Cake

Grease a 23cm round cake pan and line the base with baking paper. Combine espresso, sugar, cinnamon quills, chilli flakes, chilli powder and vanilla in a saucepan. Heat saucepan over medium-low heat for 20 minutes to infuse the flavours and dissolve the sugar. Strain mixture through a fine sieve, discarding the chilli and cinnamon quills; return coffee mixture to a clean saucepan; add butter and chocolate; stir over low heat until melted and mixture is smooth; remove from heat. Add eggs, mixing until well combined. Strain through a fine sieve into the prepared cake pan; loosely cover with foil. Place on a wire rack in the steam oven. Set oven to 80°C FullSteam and cook for 55 minutes. The cake should have a slight wobble once baked. Remove cake from steamer and allow to cool down in the pan, before placing in the fridge for 6-8 hours until chilled. Turn out onto a plate for serving and sprinkle a thin layer of cocoa powder over the top. Garnish with berries of your choice.

Chilli Thai chicken cakes and sweet lime dipping sauce

For the chicken cakes, combine mince, chilli, ginger, shallots, coriander, chestnuts and fish sauce in a medium mixing bowl; mix until well combined. Using wetted hands shape the mixture into 20 round flat patties. Place a coriander leaf on each patty. Place onto perforated steamer tray that has been lined with baking paper. Cook on 100°C FullSteam for 10 minutes or until cooked through. Meanwhile, make the dipping sauce by mixing together all the ingredients in a small bowl. For other popular chilli recipes and tips visit: How to preserve chillies Mexican chillies Chocolate macarons with chocolate chilli ganache recipe

Beetroot gnocchi with walnut-sage butter

Pre-heat oven to 200°C CircoTherm®. Place washed beetroots in a ovenproof dish and cover with the lid. Alternatively you can use aluminium foil to cover the dish. Bake for 1 hour, then turn the oven off and leave the dish in the remaining heat for another 15 minutes. Peel beetroots under running water. Use a scale to measure 200 g beetroot. Grind finely. Mix with ricotta, egg, parmesan, salt, pepper and spices. Add flour. Cover a baking tray with soft butter. Place around 80 g flour in a mixing bowl. Use two teaspoons to extract just enough dough for each gnocchi – in total it’ll be 90 gnocchi you roll in the mixing bowl with your hands. Place on the baking tray. Dip a fork first into flour and then into the gnocchi to create lines. Roast the walnuts in a pan until you can smell them. Add butter and sage leaves and sauté for three minutes until the butter turns lightly brown. Steam cook gnocchi at 100°C for ten minutes. Add pepper and serve with walnut-sage butter and parmesan. For popular gnocchi recipes and tips visit: How to make gnocchi the Italian way Potato gnocchi with roasted tomato sauce