If you always run late in the morning and
skip breakfast, try these delicious breakfasts you can make using your stand
mixers, such as griddle cakes and pasta.
3 Delicious Breakfasts You Can Make Using Your
Stand Mixer
Breakfast, a meal eaten to start the day off on a
healthy note, is something that should always be filling to the body and soul.
However, while trying to balance life and work, we end up resorting to easier
options.
There are plenty of good but tedious breakfast
recipes for which you can use your stand mixer. Try these three recipes for
delicious breakfasts you can make using your stand mixer, whether for Sunday
mornings or for weekdays. You and your family will leave home every morning
with full bellies and happy hearts.
How to Choose the
Perfect Stand Mixer
But wait! Before making your delicious breakfasts
using your stand mixer, you must understand the paddle attachments and their
functions. Besides, the quality of the mixer matters too, which is why you’ll
need to scheme through brands.
Take KitchenAid, for example. They have models
catering to the needs of people, such as functionality, capacity, and ease of
use. If you want to get one for your home, compare
KitchenAid mixers by their models, motors, capacity, mixer
attachments, size, and price to find your perfect one.
Breakfast Recipes
You Can Make With a Stand Mixer
While making each breakfast item by hand will
give better results and add more love and care, stand mixers will save you a
lot of time. And you’ll also get better results than you would expect, along
with some love.
You can make some delicious breakfasts using your
stand mixer to help you with the morning rush and make things much better.
1. Denver
Omelette
Plenty of easy, delicious, and filling omelette
recipes are available worldwide. Some may need some work, but they’ll be the
most beautiful omelette you’ll ever eat.
One such recipe is the Denver omelette. This pillowy
omelette has gooey cheese, vegetables, and protein, which is much easier to
make with a stand mixer. It’s also so adaptable that you can modify the classic
recipe to make a baked
Denver omelette.
Ingredients
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4 eggs
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Smoked ham
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Onions
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Bell peppers
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Cheddar cheese
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Water
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Olive oil
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1 tablespoon of butter
Recipe
- Chop the onions, bell peppers, and smoked
ham.
- Cook them in a little bit of olive oil until
they’re soft.
- Remove from the heat, and cover them up.
- Crack the eggs in the stand mixer bowl, add
a little water, and use the whisking attachment to whisk them up until
frothy.
- Melt and heat the butter in a skillet.
- Add half the egg mixture to the butter and
cover with a lid until the eggs set.
- Add half of the cooked ham and veggies
mixture, top it with cheese, and cover again until the cheese melts.
- Repeat the process with the rest of the
mixtures.
This recipe will create two filling denver
omelettes, perfect for breakfast. You can even enjoy it with English muffins,
or create a delicious sandwich with it at any time of the day. The Denver
omelette can be that versatile!
2. Homemade
Pasta
Having homemade pasta as breakfast is a little
unconventional, right? Not for the Italians! Who said that it would be a sin to
have this delicious treat as breakfast? Although tedious, stand mixers make the
job easy, especially with the multifunctional attachments on the mixer body.
Yes, you’ll have to portion out your pasta dough
and shape them up by hand. However, your stand mixer and the attachments will
aid in the dough-making process a lot.
Ingredients
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2 cups of all-purpose flour
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3 eggs
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1 teaspoon of olive oil
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A pinch of salt
Recipe
- In the stand mixer bowl, add the flour and
eggs one by one while you mix the dough with the hook attachment.
- When the dough is ready, poke it to see if
it bounces back. If it does, it’s ready.
- Portion out the dough into four parts.
- Attach the pasta roller to the stand mixer,
and roll the dough into thin sheets, starting with the widest setting on
the roller.
- When the dough is stretched and looks like a
thin sheet of paper, you can shape it into anything.
- To make long pasta like spaghetti,
fettuccine, pappardelle, linguine, angel hair, or bucatini, use the pasta
cutter attachment by adjusting it to various thickness to get the pasta
you want.
With the base of your pasta ready, that is, the
pasta dough, you can cook them in any way you like. Make them creamy, saucy, or
herby and with lots of tomatoes. Try making carbonara, fettuccine, alfredo,
spaghetti with classic tomato sauce, or linguine alla puttanesca, and it’ll all
be finger-licking good with fresh, homemade pasta.
3. Griddle
Cakes
Classic
griddle cakes are always a delight, with butter on top and
syrup trickling down the cakes. Another name for it is the more widely known,
pancakes. It’s also one of those delicious breakfasts you can make using your
stand mixer.
Making the mixture in a stand mixture will give
you fluffy and airy griddle cakes that won’t deflate minutes after they puff
up. You can also enjoy them in sweet and savory ways, adding fruits on the side
or some sausages!
Ingredients
This recipe makes griddle cakes for two people.
Everything should be mixed at room temperature to allow a smooth mixture.
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2 cups of all-purpose flour
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2 teaspoons of baking powder
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1 tablespoon of sugar
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Half teaspoon of salt
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1 large egg, beaten
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1 cup whole milk
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1 tablespoon melted butter
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Half teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
Recipe
- In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients
thoroughly.
- Add all the wet ingredients in the stand
mixer bowl and mix with the paddle attachment.
- Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients and
let the paddle mix everything until thoroughly blended into a batter.
- Heat a griddle and grease it lightly with
some butter.
- Add one-fourth cup of batter for each
griddle cake. Each cake should be about two inches apart.
- Cook on one side until you see bubbles
appear, and then flip them to cook the other side.
To add the final touch, add a spoonful of butter
on the top while the cakes are hot and sprinkle some syrup. You can have
sausages on the side or chop up some fruits.
Conclusion
Stand mixers are highly versatile with all the
attachments they carry. Whether a paddle, a whisk, a mixing hook, or a pasta
maker, you can easily make an array of filling breakfast items with a good
quality stand mixer.
Try out these recipes and explore all the
delicious breakfasts you can make using your stand mixer. You won’t have to
worry about getting late in the mornings after that!
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- 1 TBS sunflower oil
- 1 medium sized roasting chicken (about 4 pounds in weight)
- 6 ounces (175g) bacon lardons or chopped thick sliced bacon
- 1 large onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
- 8 small cloves of garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 fresh sprigs of rosemary, leaves stripped and roughly chopped
- 1 cup (240ml) of good quality apple cider
- 2/3 cup (180ml) of good quality chicken stock
- 4 small eating apples
- 3 1/2 TBS butter, softened, divided
- 2 tsp sugar
- freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 1/2 TBS plain all-purpose flour
- 2 TBS heavy cream
- 1 TBS chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
- fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
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Pot Roasted Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 TBS sunflower oil
- 1 medium sized roasting chicken (about 4 pounds in weight)
- 6 ounces (175g) bacon lardons or chopped thick sliced bacon
- 1 large onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
- 8 small cloves of garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 fresh sprigs of rosemary, leaves stripped and roughly chopped
- 1 cup (240ml) of good quality apple cider
- 2/3 cup (180ml) of good quality chicken stock
- 4 small eating apples
- 3 1/2 TBS butter, softened, divided
- 2 tsp sugar
- freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 1/2 TBS plain all-purpose flour
- 2 TBS heavy cream
- 1 TBS chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
- fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350*F/180*C/ gas mark 4. Place the oil into a small flameproof casserole or roaster (with a lid) which is large enough to fit the chicken snugly.
- Pat your chicken dry and season inside and out with some salt and pepper.
- Heat the oil in the casserole and then brown the chicken in the heated oil on all sides. Once it is browned all over, remove to a plate and set aside.
- Add the bacon to the casserole and cook, stirring frequently, over medium heat until golden brown. Toss in the onions. Cook and stir for a few minutes longer until they begin to soften. Add the garlic and rosemary and cook, stirring, for several minutes longer. Add the cider.
- Cook over high heat at a vigorous boil until the liquid has reduced by two thirds. Place the chicken back into the casserole. Pour in the stock. Cover with a layer of aluminum foil and then place the lid snugly on top. Roast in the preheated oven for 1 hour.
- While the chicken is cooking, peel, core and quarter the apples.
- Melt half of the butter in a skillet. Add the apples and fry them for a few minutes until they start to brown. Turn the slices over and sprinkle with the sugar and nutmeg. Continue to cook for several minutes longer until they are nicely golden and tender. Remove from the heat and set aside. Keep warm
- When the chicken is cooked through and tender, lift it out onto a large platter. Cover tightly with foil and leave to rest for about 10 minutes.
- Put the flameproof casserole over medium heat and simmer until the cooking juices are reduced and full of lovely flavors.
- Rub the remaining butter and the flour together. Drop this into the reduced chicken juices, whisking constantly, simmering until the mixture starts to bubble and thicken. Whisk in the heavy cream. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary with additional salt and black pepper. Stir in the parsley and the apple.
- Carve the chicken and serve on heated plates with some of that delicious sauce spooned over top.
Happy New Year! I wish for all of us a very prosperous and happy 2023. May it be filled with lots of the people and things that we love, and here in the English Kitchen that means delicious recipes and good food to eat! (Focus being on DELICIOUS!)
I hope the coming months will be filled with lots of tasty traditional recipes intermingled with some new, some old, some healthy, and everything in between.
More and more I want my focus to be on smaller sized recipes, geared towards the smaller family, singletons, and empty nesters. But you larger families never fear, there will be plenty stirred into the mix for you as well, and as always, I am happy to give you the measurements for a larger sized recipe if you ask!
Everybody is doing this so I thought I would just jump on the bandwagon and share what were the most popular recipes on the blog over these past twelve months! I am sure you will be acquainted with many of them, but there may be a few that you have missed out on.
In any case, I can promise you this. All are delicious!
Coming in at #20: GINGERBREAD MUFFINS.
No surprise here. Moist and gingery with a bit of crunch from the demerara sugar sprinkle on top. A great basic gingerbread muffin that you can adapt by making a few additions if you like such as dried or candied fruit, etc.
Number 19: OLD TIME BREAD PUDDING
This is also not a surprise. This is an old traditional recipe for a solid bread pudding that cuts like a cake and is stuffed with plenty of spice and loads of fruit. Delicious warm, but equally as delicious cold. You will see this sold by a single serving slab in many of the bake shops in the UK. Perfect to enjoy with a mid morning or afternoon cuppa.
Number 18: PAN FRIED COD
I was really happy to see this one and not at all surprised. This is one of my favorite ways to prepare one of my favorite types of fish. This simple recipe boasts wonderful flavors and a really simple cooking method. Using very few ingredients, you can be enjoying perfectly cooked and delicious fish in less than fifteen minutes.
Number 17: GRATIN OF CHICKEN
Who doesn't struggle with using up all of the cooked chicken leftover from a roast chicken or a rotisserie bird. Struggle no more as I have the perfect solution and it is perfectly delicious! This creamy chicken gratin recipe is also perfect for those nights when you are starving, and you want to feed your family something warm and comforting. There is nothing like a creamy chicken gratin to tick all the boxes when it comes to creating a delicious and yet simple supper dish.
Number 16: TRADITIONAL SEED CAKE
I am really excited about this one as it is one of my absolute all-time favorite cakes to enjoy with a hot cuppa. It was also said to be the favorite cake of William Wordsworth's sister Dorothy Wordsworth! A good seed cake recipe would have been included in any Victorian era cookbook! They are very traditional.
Number 15: MARY BERRY'S MINCEMEAT BUNS
And there is no more perfect time of the year to bake them than now, with some of us having leftover mincemeat in the larder that we be wanting to use up! These may be baked in a muffin tin, but they are as far away from muffins as they can be. Instead they are dense fruited cakes, meant to be enjoyed with hot drinks. Not a dessert, but an indulgent teatime treat!
Number 14: NIGEL'S POTATOES
I absolutely adore this simple potato dish which comes from Nigel Slater. this one is such a simple dish. It's basically just layered raw potato, fried onions and chicken stock. You don't even need to peel the potatoes. And you can adapt it up or down to serve as many or as few people as you like. I can't think of anything that this tasty side dish wouldn't sit well next to!
Number 13: BLUEBERRY BUTTER SWIM BISCUITS
If you are a fan of North American style Biscuits you are going to just love this version of Butter Swim Biscuits. Butter swim biscuits are soft and fluffy biscuits that bake in a pan loaded with butter. There is no butter in the biscuits themselves, but with plenty of butter in the baking tin, you don't need it. These bake up light and fluffy with a lovely buttery crust, and crispy outside edge. This version is particularly nice as it is stuffed with sweet blueberries and glazed with a sweet glaze.
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Number 12: BANBURY CAKES
A close cousin to Eccles cakes these delicious pastries are not cakes at all but a round shaped flaky and buttery puff pastry turnover filled with a filling of dried fruits, butter, spices and brown sugar. They are melt in the mouth delicious. Another very traditional recipe from the UK.
Number 11: MARY'S PERFECT SHORTBREAD
Another recipe adapted from Mary Berry. You just know it is the perfect shortbread biscuit/cookie. Crisp and buttery. Not too sweet. Perfect with a hot cup of tea or a bowl of ice cream. If you are looking for a great shortbread cookie, look no further. You just struck gold!
Number 10: CARAMEL POPCORN TWISTS
If you love caramel corn but are not fond of the husks on the popcorn getting stuck in your teeth, this delicious and easy recipe is the perfect solution. It uses a bag of hull-less popcorn, or popcorn twists as they are also called here in Canada, the popular brand being put out by Old Dutch. I know there is also a brand of these in America, but am not sure what it is called. In any case I call this easy to make snack DELICIOUS with a capital 'D!"
Number 9: GREEN BEAN & POTATO CASSEROLE
Cooked cubed potatoes and green beans in a delicious cheese sauce, topped with a buttery crumb and baked until golden brown and bubbling. This is an excellent side dish for any occasion or weeknight supper! Quite simply delicious!
Number 8: HOW TO COOK CHICKEN IN THE MICROWAVE
This is my tried-and-true way of preparing perfectly cooked chicken breasts in the microwave oven. I often buy whole packs of chicken breasts when they are on offer at the shops and poach or cook them, packing the meat into two cup containers, and freezing them. That way I always have a quantity of cooked chicken ready to use in a tasty dish at any given time. One of the easiest ways to cook this chicken is in the microwave. If you know how to cook chicken in the microwave you will never be short of cooked shredded chicken. It is very simple to do and very quick. The chicken always comes out moist and delicious. Perfect for shredding or dicing..jpg "Lemon Posset")
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