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.
Thermomix Stewed Rhubarb With Orange and Ginger
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
- Pulse ginger and sugar in the Thermomix for a few seconds at speed 8.
- Add in all the orange juice and rind, and the rhubarb.
- Cook in the Thermomix at 80 degrees C for 8 minutes on speed soft reverse.
- Scoff with Greek yoghurt.
- Serve it up to the kids!
- 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?
I used to chew on rhubarb when I was younger too! Never cooked with it though. this recipe looks yummy!
There are lovely rhubarb cake recipes too, highly recommended.
Did you ever make a square hole in an orange, stick a sugar cube in then suck all the juice out through it??
Those were the days.
Man that looks good. I love the stuff and it is so good for you.
Carolyn
When I was a kid we’d do the same thing with rhubarb. I found it incredibly tart and probably ate it just to lick the sugar off the end.
Delicious! Thanks so much. I replaced the brown sugar with rice malt syrup and halved the recipe cause I wanted to use the other half of the bunch of rhubarb on some rhubarb and white chocolate biscuits from Donna Hay’s April/May magazine. Do you mind if I write about this on my blog? x
Hello Aleesha, not at all. Always love a mention and link back if that’s appropriate. Love to share things that work!
Hi Aleesha i am having difficulty finding that recipe is it listed anywhere?
Many thanks if you can Amanda
Hi, I think you’ll need to find Aleesha’s website, try: https://www.meandtheyoung.com/
How much does a bunch of rhubarb weigh please?
Hello Emma, so sorry, I have no idea. In fact, the weight probably varies from bunch to bunch and shop to shop. If I was picking my own – my Mum used to have a wonderful rhubarb patch – I would be using about five big stalks, or seven or eight mediums or ten small ones.