Free Recipes · Winter Cooking in the Thermomix
Five free recipes for the cold months: a soup, a curry, a fifteen minute noodle bowl, a molten pudding and a bedtime latte.
What can you cook for a hearty winter dinner in the Thermomix? These five free recipes are the cold weather line-up we come back to: cauliflower, pancetta and lentil soup, coconut lamb curry, fifteen minute miso noodles, molten rum and chocolate puddings, and a spiced caramel latte to finish. Every one of them is built in your Thermomix, and not one of them asks much of you on a cold night.
There is a particular kind of magic to winter cooking, isn't there? The windows fog up, something bubbles away on the bench, and the whole house smells like dinner long before it is ready. This is the season your Thermomix earns its place on the bench more than any other.
So here are the hearty, soul-warming favourites I keep coming back to when it is cold and grey outside. A bowl of soup that tastes like a hug, a rich curry for a slow Sunday, a noodle bowl for the nights when nobody can be bothered, and two sweet things because winter is the only excuse a person needs.
A machine on the bench does nothing on its own... it is the recipes you put through it that make it worth its space. Every recipe below is free, tested and written for real weeknights, so pick one, pop the kettle on and get something simmering.
Meet the cookbook
The cookbook with three chapters of winter cooking
It is organised season by season, and winter gets three whole chapters of its own, so cold weather cooking sits in one place instead of scattered through an index. Autumn has three chapters too, including a run of bulk freezer-friendly recipes you cook then to get you through winter. Most of it is done start to finish in under 30 minutes, with variations for vegan, vegetarian, dairy free, gluten free and refined-sugar free.
Thermo Cooker Fresh Favourites
93 photographed recipes across 262 colour pages, arranged season by season, with soups, curries, breads and cakes built around fresh produce.
Shop now →The mindset
Your Thermomix does not have to do every step
The coconut lamb curry below is the one that quietly teaches this. Your Thermomix builds the fragrant curry paste, roasts off the spices and handles all the fiddly bits, and then the curry goes into the oven for a long, slow cook. Once it is in there it is completely set and forget, and that gentle oven time is what gives you top-notch results with no fuss at all.
This is one of the most freeing things to understand about your machine. It does not have to do absolutely everything to be worth its place in your kitchen. It just has to help with everything. A bit of teamwork between you and your Thermomix is how the best cold weather food gets made.
Pull up a stool and come cook with us for a few minutes.
Free recipes
Five hearty winter dinners in the Thermomix, plus dessert
All free, all on the website, and all designed for cold nights when you want feeding rather than impressing.
Cauliflower, Pancetta and Lentil Soup in the Thermomix
If I had to choose one bowl to sum up winter, it might be this one. Cauliflower is at its best and cheapest in the cold months, and it turns gorgeously silky once your Thermomix gets hold of it. Lentils bring the fibre and protein that turn a simple soup into a proper, sit-you-down meal, with a little pancetta on top for salty depth. There is a vegetarian option if you would rather skip it.
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Coconut Lamb Curry in the Thermomix
Rich, warming and completely set and forget once it hits the oven. Your Thermomix does the curry paste, the spices and the fiddly bits, then the oven does the long, slow work that gives you restaurant quality results with no fuss.
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15-Minute Miso Noodles in the Thermomix
I know, fifteen minutes and a handful of ingredients does not sound like it should be this good. Please do not knock it until you have tried it. Rich and savoury from the miso, fresh and light from the rocket and spring onions, vegan, and faster than waiting on delivery. This one has quietly become a back-pocket dinner I reach for again and again.
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Molten Rum and Chocolate Puddings in the Thermomix
Crunchy edges, a soft middle and a proper liquid chocolate centre that spills out the moment your spoon goes in. It is the kind of dessert that makes everyone at the table go quiet for a second. Serve them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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Spiced Caramel Latte in the Thermomix
Really a dessert in a glass rather than a morning drink. Warm, gently spiced and just sweet enough, it is pudding and a cosy bedtime wind-down rolled into one, and far cosier than anything you would queue for at a cafe.
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Can you cook a whole winter dinner in the Thermomix?
Yes. The five free recipes above cover soup, curry, noodles, dessert and a warm drink, so a whole cold weather menu can come out of the one bowl. The curry is the only one that finishes elsewhere, going into the oven for its long, slow cook.
What is the quickest winter dinner in the Thermomix?
The fifteen minute miso noodles win easily. A handful of ingredients, fifteen minutes, and it is on the table faster than delivery would arrive.
Does the coconut lamb curry cook entirely in the Thermomix?
No, and that is the point of it. Your Thermomix builds the paste, roasts off the spices and handles the fiddly bits, then the curry goes into the oven to cook slowly and gently. Once it is in there, it is completely hands off.
Which of these winter recipes is the cheapest to make?
The cauliflower, pancetta and lentil soup. Cauliflower is at its best and cheapest in the cold months, and lentils are humble, cheap and so good for you, so a big batch costs next to nothing.
Can I make dessert in the Thermomix as well as dinner?
Absolutely. The molten rum and chocolate puddings and the spiced caramel latte are both made in your Thermomix, and both are a lovely way to round off a winter evening.
Want to get more from your Thermomix this winter?
Cold nights are the easiest time to get properly good value out of the machine you already own. Grab the cookbook with three whole chapters of winter cooking in it, or have a browse through the whole shelf and pick the one that suits how you cook.
