Stewed Rhubarb With Orange and Ginger In The Thermomix

 Rhubarb has been a brekkie favourite since I was a wee girl. Mum always grew loads of rhubarb in the garden in East Lothian, Scotland. She still does.

We used to pick a stalk and thrust the end into a cup of sugar and then chew it. Oh lovely!

Meanwhile here in Sydney, my rhubarb growing is a disaster so far. But this year, it’s all going to be different… isn’t it? Hope so. Anyway, I love stewed rhubarb. But all too often I have stewed it into a mushy mess.

This time I did it in the Thermomix using a lower temperature and shorter cooking time. I adapted the recipe from one at Taste.

Ingredients

• 1 bunch rhubarb, trimmed, cut into 4cm lengths
• 1 orange, rind finely grated, juiced
• 5cm-piece fresh ginger, peeled
• 55g (1/4 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar

Instructions

1. Pulse ginger and sugar in the Thermomix for a few seconds at speed 8.
2. Add in all the orange juice and rind, and the rhubarb.
3. Cook in the Thermomix at 80 degrees C for 8 minutes on speed soft reverse.
4. Scoff with Greek yoghurt.
5. Serve it up to the kids!
6. NB I often use less sugar, I quite like the sharpness of rhubarb and the flavours take the edge of it a bit.

Are you a rhubarb stalker too?

Can you recommend a good rhubarb recipe?