I’m so excited, Rural Sprout Readers. I obtained a mannequin new blender for Christmas.
Okay, high quality. I purchased myself a blender the primary week of December.
My outdated 70s Osterizer $5 thrift retailer uncover wasn’t chopping it anymore. (Optimistic, it was Harvest Gold, and I beloved it.)
I obtained myself a spiffy Blendtec blender, and I’ve been utilizing it for the entire thing.
It’s a blender, Tracey; it blends stuff. You can’t use it for the entire thing.
I do know that, nonetheless while you get a mannequin new kitchen toy, you end up looking for each varied to put it to use. In actuality, I’ve presently found ten cool belongings you can do collectively collectively along with your blender.
Don’t take into consideration me? Research on, my good pal.
1. Make Lazy Lemonade
I actually really feel we’re ready to all agree that the powdered stuff that is accessible in a can is solely gross. Newest-squeezed lemonade is all the time most likely the best.
Efficiently, what if I educated you, you presumably can have fresh-squeezed lemonade in minutes with out the laborious half – the squeezing.
Seize your blender jar. Toss in your quartered lemons, and add your sugar or easy syrup, and away you go. You may too make as little or as heaps as you need with this straightforward ratio for every lemon use 1 cup of water and 1/3 cup of sugar.
To serve, pour your lemonade by means of a fine-mesh strainer correct proper right into a pitcher; add ice and some lemon slices for garnish.
While you’re taking it out to the porch, you will need to inform all individuals how laborious it was squeezing all of these lemons.
You may too make probably the greatest strawberry or blueberry lemonade this pattern as appropriately by tossing the fruit in with the lemons. This technique works good for each present or frozen berries.
2. Almond Milk
Let’s be dependable upon getting a take a look at an almond, no individual’s first thought is, “I’ll wager there’s milk in there.”
I’ve all the time thought there was some massive, highly effective course of for making nut milk. I couldn’t have been additional mistaken.
All you do is soak almonds in water in a single day. (Do that half contained in the blender jar as appropriately.) All through the morning, drain them, then toss them as soon as extra contained in the blender with present water, a pinch of salt, and no matter completely totally different add-ins you need – vanilla, a sweetener, berries, or cocoa powder.
Mix the whole concoction for a couple of minutes, then pour it correct proper right into a nut milk bag (fairly just a few layers of cheesecloth will do the trick, too) in a large bowl and squeeze the whole scrumptious goodness out of it.
Much like each single difficulty we’ve ever handed over to producers to make for us – the home made model is infinitely tastier.
Oh, while you’re achieved making almond milk, save your pulp and make almond meal. Head over to Minimalist Baker to be taught the way in which.
3. Pesto Perfection
For most likely the best pesto, skip the meals processor with all of its parts and go straight to the blender.
Am I the one one which is ready to get their rubber spatula caught beneath the blade contained in the meals processor while you’re scraping the perimeters? Efficiently, not anymore.
I exploit Meredith’s basil pruning practices, so throughout the summertime, my basil vegetation are all the time pushing out large leaves, week after week. I might merely make pesto by the gallon.
Mmm, a gallon of pesto.
Utilizing a blender makes the entire course of heaps sooner. It’s heaps simpler to pour from a blender jar than it’s from the meals processor too.
4. Peanut Butter
Whilst you’ve under no circumstances tried handmade peanut butter, you don’t know what you’re lacking. I began making handmade peanut butter with a drizzle of honey in it, and now my kiddos obtained’t even contact the stuff from the shop.
And it’s simple.
As in – dump peanuts contained in the blender, drizzle in a spoonful of honey, hit mix, and stroll away.
Do-it-yourself peanut butter won’t ever be so simple as store-bought peanut butter. Your individual handmade peanut butter will nonetheless have a barely gritty texture when achieved. Whilst you’ve purchased all-natural peanut butter prior to, what I’m speaking about.
The flavour can be so heaps greater, although.
The very important issue to the final word phrase handmade peanut butter is to let it mix for a gentle 5 minutes. Be affected explicit individual and let it go for the whole 5 minutes, scraping the perimeters as wished.
For model that’s out of this world, toast your peanuts barely prior to you mix them and add a pinch of sea salt. Put them on a sheet pan in a 400-degree F oven for about 5 minutes or till you presumably can begin to odor them.
And peanut butter is only the start – almond butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter. Yeah, you make these the same technique. Bye, Bye Jiffy.
If you need a precise recipe, The Kitchn has you coated.
5. Pizza Sauce
I’ve all the time thought canned pizza sauce was a little bit of little little bit of a gimmick. It’s primarily raw spaghetti sauce, appropriate?
Right.
Make simple and updated pizza sauce that’s prepared in minutes due to pizza night time is additional pleasing when it occurs at residence. Toss the next into your blender and mix till it’s so simple as you need.
- 1 15 oz can of tomato sauce
- 1 6 oz can of tomato paste
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 teaspoons of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning (or 1 teaspoon every of basil, oregano, and thyme)
- ½ a teaspoon of salt
- Floor black pepper to kind
Unfold the sauce in your pizza dough; no ought to put collectively dinner it first, that’s the oven’s job.
6. Soup-er Creamy Soups
Oh, come on, that pun was low-hanging fruit. I wished to.
Concerning a chilly winter’s day, nothing beats a scorching bowl of soup. Take your creamy soups to a whole completely totally different stage by mixing them contained in the blender prior to serving. You’ll find yourself with earlier creamy soup that will have you ever ever ever weak contained in the knees.
Are you occupied with rising leeks this 12 months?
Scorching liquids are normally explodey when coated. When processing soup contained in the blender, it’s greatest to take movement in small batches, beginning on the underside setting and rising tempo slowly. In case your blender jar is sufficiently big, chances are high excessive it would be best to take into account mixing with out the lid or with the lid on midway, so the model new air has a spot to flee.
As quickly as further, small batches, watch out. We don’t need one totally different ’05 Cream of Broccoli Soup catastrophe. (I’m fairly constructive there’s nonetheless soup on the ceiling at my outdated place.)
7. Easy to Pour Pancake Batter
Whilst you’re cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out. Even when you aren’t cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out anyway due to blender pancakes are heaps faster and simpler. I’m lazy contained in the kitchen, I ought to know.
Put all the pancake batter substances contained in the blender and mix.
Ta-da! Now you’ve obtained good pancake batter in a simple to pour container.
8. The Fluffiest Scrambled Eggs Ever
No actually, I counsel like ever.
And I’ve no regrets.
I discovered this trick from Waffle Residence a lot of years before now. They mix their eggs in a milkshake mixer prior to making omelets with them. Genius.
For the fluffiest scrambled eggs and omelets, crack your eggs into the blender and mix them on excessive for about 30 seconds prior to you set collectively dinner them.
All of the air you mix into the eggs makes them terribly light and creamy. You’ll swear there’s cheese in them; they’re that fluffy.
9. Blender Hollandaise Sauce
I’ve misplaced observe of the variety of conditions I’ve made hollandaise sauce solely to have it separate. It’s a type of sauces that’s comparatively easy to make in concept, nonetheless concept and actuality occasionally line up in my kitchen.
Till now.
I current the quickest, best, non-separating hollandaise sauce ever, my mates.
No double boiler, no whisking till your arm comes off. Merely simple, tangy, creamy hollandaise sauce ready to be drizzled over the entire thing.
Like one different hollandaise sauce, prep this appropriate prior to serving.
Toss the primary 4 substances into your blender jar:
- 3 massive egg yolks
- ¼ tsp salt
- Pinch of cayenne pepper or white pepper
- 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Lower up ½ cup of butter
Warmth your butter in a small saucepan over low med-low warmth till it’s foamy. Mix the contents of your jar on excessive for five seconds; whereas the blender continues to be working, very slowly drizzle contained in the scorching, effervescent butter. Practically instantly, it’d thicken into the scrumptious yellow sauce everyone is conscious of and love.
Whilst you aren’t serving it instantly, defend the sauce scorching and creamy by immersing your blender jar in a bowl of scorching water.
10. Do-it-yourself Confectioners Sugar
In all probability you obtained’t cease buying for confectioners sugar any extra, nonetheless this appears to be useful while you’re baking and understand you’ve run out.
I had no concept that this was even one issue you might make at residence. I have no idea why, nonetheless there you go. It merely goes to stage out how terribly reliant we now have flip into on having factors made for us.
To make handmade confectioners or powdered sugar:
In a blender, pour 2 cups of white granulated sugar and some tablespoons of corn starch. Cowl and mix for five minutes. You’ll need to cease it sometimes to stir the combo.
Whilst you’ve achieved, pour a lot of of the sugar correct proper right into a bowl and run your fingers by means of it. It must basically actually really feel easy and powdery, not grainy. If it feels grainy, pour it as soon as extra into the blender jar and mix for one more 2-3 minutes.
Retailer your fancy handmade powdered sugar in an hermetic container.
And finally, you presumably can merely do your dishes in beneath 5 minutes collectively collectively along with your blender. Yeah, I do know – wishful pondering. Nonetheless, the remaining are fairly good blender hacks. Whilst you’ve obtained a mannequin new blender, give them a attempt. Whilst you’ve obtained an outdated blender, blow the mud off it and gives it some love.
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