I’m so excited, Rural Sprout Readers. I obtained a model new blender for Christmas.
Okay, high quality. I bought myself a blender the first 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My outdated 70s Osterizer $5 thrift retailer uncover wasn’t chopping it anymore.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 using it for all the factor.
It’s a blender, Tracey; it blends stuff. You can’t use it for all the factor.
I do know that, nonetheless when you get a model new kitchen toy, you find yourself looking for every quite a few to place it to make use of. In reality, I’ve in the meanwhile discovered ten cool belongings you can do collectively collectively alongside along with your blender.
Don’t consider me? Study on, my good pal.
1. Make Lazy Lemonade
I truly actually really feel we’re in a position to all agree that the powdered stuff that’s accessible in a can is solely gross. Latest-squeezed lemonade is always almost certainly one of the best.
Effectively, 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 simple syrup, and away you go. It’s possible you’ll too make as little or as heaps as you want with this simple ratio for each lemon use 1 cup of water and 1/3 cup of sugar.
To serve, pour your lemonade via a fine-mesh strainer right correct proper right into a pitcher; add ice and a few lemon slices for garnish.
If you are taking it out to the porch, it’s possible you’ll want to tell all people how laborious it was squeezing all of those lemons.
It’s possible you’ll too make the best strawberry or blueberry lemonade this sample as appropriately by tossing the fruit in with the lemons. This method works good for every current or frozen berries.
2. Almond Milk
Let’s be reliable upon getting a check out an almond, no particular person’s first thought is, “I’ll wager there’s milk in there.”
I’ve always thought there was some big, extremely efficient course of for making nut milk. I couldn’t have been further mistaken.
All you do is soak almonds in water in a single day. (Do this half contained within the blender jar as appropriately.) All via the morning, drain them, then toss them as quickly as additional contained within the blender with current water, a pinch of salt, and irrespective of fully completely completely different add-ins you want – vanilla, a sweetener, berries, or cocoa powder.
Combine the entire concoction for a few minutes, then pour it right correct proper right into a nut milk bag (pretty quite a lot of layers of cheesecloth will do the trick, too) in a big bowl and squeeze the entire delicious goodness out of it.
Very like every single downside we’ve ever handed over to producers to make for us – the house made mannequin is infinitely tastier.
Oh, when you’re achieved making almond milk, save your pulp and make almond meal. Head over to Minimalist Baker to check the best way during which.
3. Pesto Perfection
For almost certainly one of the best pesto, skip the meals processor with all of its components and go straight to the blender.
Am I the one one which is able to get their rubber spatula caught beneath the blade contained within the meals processor when you’re scraping the perimeters? Effectively, not anymore.
I exploit Meredith’s basil pruning practices, so inside {the summertime}, my basil vegetation are always pushing out massive leaves, week after week. I’d merely make pesto by the gallon.
Mmm, a gallon of pesto.
Using a blender makes all the course of heaps sooner. It’s heaps easier to pour from a blender jar than it is from the meals processor too.
4. Peanut Butter
While you’ve on no account tried handmade peanut butter, you don’t know what you’re missing. I started making handmade peanut butter with a drizzle of honey in it, and now my kiddos obtained’t even contact the stuff from the store.
And it’s simple.
As in – dump peanuts contained within the blender, drizzle in a spoonful of honey, hit combine, and stroll away.
Do-it-yourself peanut butter will not ever be as simple as store-bought peanut butter. Your private handmade peanut butter will nonetheless have a barely gritty texture when achieved. While you’ve bought all-natural peanut butter earlier than, what I’m talking about.
The flavour will doubtless be so heaps bigger, though.
The crucial subject to the ultimate phrase phrase handmade peanut butter is to let it combine for a delicate 5 minutes. Be affected particular particular person and let it go for the entire 5 minutes, scraping the perimeters as wished.
For kind that is out of this world, toast your peanuts barely earlier than you combine 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 until you presumably can start to odor them.
And peanut butter is simply the beginning – almond butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter. Yeah, you make these the identical method. Bye, Bye Jiffy.
If you happen to want an precise recipe, The Kitchn has you coated.
5. Pizza Sauce
I’ve always thought canned pizza sauce was just a little little bit of little little little bit of a gimmick. It’s primarily uncooked spaghetti sauce, applicable?
Applicable.
Make simple and up to date pizza sauce that’s ready in minutes because of pizza evening time is further pleasing when it happens at residence. Toss the subsequent into your blender and blend until it’s as simple as you want.
- 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 each of basil, oregano, and thyme)
- ½ a teaspoon of salt
- Ground black pepper to type
Unfold the sauce in your pizza dough; no must 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 wanted to.
Referring to a cold winter’s day, nothing beats a scorching bowl of soup. Take your creamy soups to a complete fully completely completely different stage by mixing them contained within the blender earlier than serving. You’ll end up with earlier creamy soup that can have you ever ever ever ever weak contained within the knees.
Are you occupied with rising leeks this 12 months?
Scorching liquids are usually explodey when coated. When processing soup contained within the blender, it’s biggest to take motion in small batches, starting on the underside setting and rising tempo slowly. In case your blender jar is sufficiently monumental, chances are extreme you may need to have in mind mixing with out the lid or with the lid on halfway, so the mannequin new air has a spot to flee.
As rapidly as additional, small batches, be careful. We don’t want one completely completely different ’05 Cream of Broccoli Soup disaster. (I’m pretty constructive there’s nonetheless soup on the ceiling at my outdated place.)
7. Straightforward to Pour Pancake Batter
While you’re cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out. Even whenever you aren’t cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out anyway because of blender pancakes are heaps sooner and easier. I’m lazy contained within the kitchen, I must know.
Put all of the pancake batter substances contained within the blender and blend.
Ta-da! Now you’ve obtained good pancake batter in an easy to pour container.
8. The Fluffiest Scrambled Eggs Ever
No actually, I like to recommend like ever.
And I’ve no regrets.
I found this trick from Waffle Residence plenty of years prior to now. They combine their eggs in a milkshake mixer earlier than making omelets with them. Genius.
For the fluffiest scrambled eggs and omelets, crack your eggs into the blender and blend them on extreme for about 30 seconds earlier than you set collectively dinner them.
The entire air you combine into the eggs makes them terribly gentle and creamy. You’ll swear there’s cheese in them; they’re that fluffy.
9. Blender Hollandaise Sauce
I’ve misplaced observe of the number of situations I’ve made hollandaise sauce solely to have it separate. It’s a sort of sauces that’s comparatively simple to make in idea, nonetheless idea and actuality generally line up in my kitchen.
Until now.
I present the quickest, greatest, non-separating hollandaise sauce ever, my mates.
No double boiler, no whisking until your arm comes off. Merely simple, tangy, creamy hollandaise sauce in a position to be drizzled over all the factor.
Like one completely different hollandaise sauce, prep this applicable earlier than serving.
Toss the first 4 substances into your blender jar:
- 3 big egg yolks
- ¼ tsp salt
- Pinch of cayenne pepper or white pepper
- 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Decrease up ½ cup of butter
Heat your butter in a small saucepan over low med-low heat until it’s foamy. Combine the contents of your jar on extreme for 5 seconds; whereas the blender continues to be working, very slowly drizzle contained within the scorching, effervescent butter. Nearly immediately, it might thicken into the delicious yellow sauce everyone seems to be aware of and love.
While you aren’t serving it immediately, defend the sauce scorching and creamy by immersing your blender jar in a bowl of scorching water.
10. Do-it-yourself Confectioners Sugar
Most likely you obtained’t stop shopping for for confectioners sugar any additional, nonetheless this seems to be helpful when you’re baking and perceive you’ve run out.
I had no idea that this was even one subject you can make at residence. I don’t know why, nonetheless there you go. It merely goes to diploma out how terribly reliant now we’ve flip into on having components made for us.
To make handmade confectioners or powdered sugar:
In a blender, pour 2 cups of white granulated sugar and a few tablespoons of corn starch. Cowl and blend for 5 minutes. You’ll must stop it often to stir the mixture.
While you’ve achieved, pour plenty of of the sugar right correct proper right into a bowl and run your fingers via it. It ought to primarily truly actually really feel simple and powdery, not grainy. If it feels grainy, pour it as quickly as additional into the blender jar and blend for but another 2-3 minutes.
Retailer your fancy handmade powdered sugar in an airtight container.
And eventually, you presumably can merely do your dishes in beneath 5 minutes collectively collectively alongside along with your blender. Yeah, I do know – wishful pondering. Nonetheless, the remaining are pretty good blender hacks. While you’ve obtained a model new blender, give them a try. While you’ve obtained an outdated blender, blow the mud off it and offers it some love.
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