Over the weekend, we decided to try the Family Chicken Galette from Cookidoo. We didn’t have much on & no plans around dinner time, so I thought it was a good opportunity to try a new recipe. My partner Shiva loves to cook & has been enjoying using my TM6 over the last few months. He was previously a Thermo-phobe! I was taking things very easy, following a recent hospital visit, so cooking this dish was entirely left for him to do. The only thing I did was chop the butter into cubes & freeze, as this was required for the pastry.

This recipe sounded delicious – caramelised onion & bacon base, with a chicken & mushroom pie filling, The caramelised onion & bacon mixture added amazing flavour to this galette.

To start this recipe, you make the pastry in your Thermomix. There was 200 grams of butter required for the pastry, so I immediately knew this was not a light, low fat meal! I did struggle mentally with the amount of butter in the pastry – actually with every bite, I could feel my weight increasing! Don’t get me wrong, the pastry was delicious. I thought it had the texture & taste of a croissant.

We really loved this meal & will definitely make it again. It’s not really a typical quick mid week meal, more of a dinner to make when you’re not in a rush, or on a weekend. The recipe did take a long time to make, when you factor in the time for resting the pastry & washing the bowl before making the filling components. It probably took an hour & a half to prepare & cook. Next time, we will skip the fist few steps & instead of making our own pastry, we’ll use store bought short crust pastry. It might mean making two small galettes, which is fine. My girls had this for dinner tonight & it re-heated well.

Cookidoo is Thermomix’s online guided recipe library, featuring over 63,000 recipes from all over the world. The recipes sync directly to your TM6 screen. You can check out Cookidoo for 30 days for free & when you purchase a TM6 receive 6 months free access. After that Cookidoo is $49 annual subscription, which is amazing when you consider it’s less than the price of a cookbook. All Thermomix cookbooks are available on Cookidoo, as well as hundreds of collections of recipes. Thermomix still sell cookbooks, if you’re someone who loves them. All our cookbooks are available to purchase from The Mix Shop