I’m so excited, Rural Sprout Readers. I obtained a model new blender for Christmas.
Okay, prime quality. I bought myself a blender the first week of December.
My outdated 70s Osterizer $5 thrift retailer uncover wasn’t chopping it anymore. (Positive, it was Harvest Gold, and I beloved it.)
I obtained myself a spiffy Blendtec blender, and I’ve been using it for the whole thing.
It’s a blender, Tracey; it blends stuff. You can’t use it for the whole thing.
I do know that, nonetheless when you get a model new kitchen toy, you find yourself looking out for every various to utilize it. In reality, I’ve currently discovered ten cool belongings you can do collectively together with your blender.
Don’t think about me? Study on, my good pal.
1. Make Lazy Lemonade
I 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 probably the greatest.
Successfully, what if I knowledgeable you, you possibly 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. You can too make as little or as lots 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 by way of a fine-mesh strainer proper right into a pitcher; add ice and a few lemon slices for garnish.
Whilst you take it out to the porch, you’ll want to inform all people how laborious it was squeezing all of those lemons.
You can too make one of the best strawberry or blueberry lemonade this trend as correctly 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 have a look at an almond, no person’s first thought is, “I’ll wager there’s milk in there.”
I’ve always thought there was some large, powerful 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 inside the blender jar as correctly.) Throughout the morning, drain them, then toss them once more inside the blender with current water, a pinch of salt, and regardless of totally different add-ins you want – vanilla, a sweetener, berries, or cocoa powder.
Combine the entire concoction for a few minutes, then pour it proper right into a nut milk bag (quite a few layers of cheesecloth will do the trick, too) in a giant bowl and squeeze the entire delicious goodness out of it.
Similar to every single issue we’ve ever handed over to producers to make for us – the house made mannequin is infinitely tastier.
Oh, when you’re accomplished making almond milk, save your pulp and make almond meal. Head over to Minimalist Baker to learn the way.
3. Pesto Perfection
For probably the greatest 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 under the blade inside the meals processor when you’re scraping the edges? Successfully, not anymore.
I exploit Meredith’s basil pruning practices, so within the summertime, my basil vegetation are always pushing out giant leaves, week after week. I’d merely make pesto by the gallon.
Mmm, a gallon of pesto.
Using a blender makes the whole course of lots sooner. It’s lots 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 easy.
As in – dump peanuts inside 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 own home made peanut butter will nonetheless have a barely gritty texture when accomplished. While you’ve bought all-natural peanut butter sooner than, what I’m talking about.
The flavour will be so lots higher, though.
The vital factor to the ultimate phrase handmade peanut butter is to let it combine for a steady 5 minutes. Be affected particular person and let it go for the entire 5 minutes, scraping the edges as wished.
For style that is out of this world, toast your peanuts barely sooner 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 possibly can start to odor them.
And peanut butter is just the beginning – almond butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter. Yeah, you make these the similar strategy. Bye, Bye Jiffy.
If you would like an exact recipe, The Kitchn has you coated.
5. Pizza Sauce
I’ve always thought canned pizza sauce was a bit of little bit of a gimmick. It’s primarily uncooked spaghetti sauce, correct?
Correct.
Make easy and up to date pizza sauce that’s ready in minutes because of pizza night is further pleasing when it happens at residence. Toss the following 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 should put together 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.
Regarding a cold winter’s day, nothing beats a scorching bowl of soup. Take your creamy soups to a complete totally different stage by mixing them inside the blender sooner than serving. You’ll end up with previous creamy soup that may have you ever ever weak inside the knees.
Are you occupied with rising leeks this 12 months?
Scorching liquids are usually explodey when coated. When processing soup inside the blender, it’s best to take motion in small batches, starting on the bottom setting and rising tempo slowly. In case your blender jar is sufficiently huge, chances are high you will want to consider mixing with out the lid or with the lid on halfway, so the brand new air has a spot to flee.
As soon as extra, small batches, be careful. We don’t want one different ’05 Cream of Broccoli Soup disaster. (I’m pretty constructive there’s nonetheless soup on the ceiling at my outdated place.)
7. Simple to Pour Pancake Batter
While you’re cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out. Even once you aren’t cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out anyway because of blender pancakes are lots quicker and easier. I’m lazy inside the kitchen, I should know.
Put all of the pancake batter substances inside the blender and blend.
Ta-da! Now you’ve obtained good pancake batter in a easy to pour container.
8. The Fluffiest Scrambled Eggs Ever
No truly, I suggest like ever.
And I’ve no regrets.
I found this trick from Waffle Residence a number of years prior to now. They combine their eggs in a milkshake mixer sooner 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 sooner than you put together dinner them.
All the air you combine into the eggs makes them extraordinarily 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 form of sauces that’s comparatively simple to make in idea, nonetheless idea and actuality infrequently 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 easy, tangy, creamy hollandaise sauce in a position to be drizzled over the whole thing.
Like one other hollandaise sauce, prep this correct sooner than serving.
Toss the first 4 substances into your blender jar:
- 3 large 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 inside the scorching, effervescent butter. Nearly immediately, it might thicken into the delicious yellow sauce everybody is aware of and love.
While you aren’t serving it immediately, protect the sauce scorching and creamy by immersing your blender jar in a bowl of scorching water.
10. Do-it-yourself Confectioners Sugar
Probably you obtained’t stop purchasing 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 factor you may make at residence. I do not know why, nonetheless there you go. It merely goes to level out how extraordinarily reliant we have flip into on having points 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 want to stop it typically to stir the mix.
While you’ve accomplished, pour a number of of the sugar proper right into a bowl and run your fingers by way of it. It ought to essentially really feel simple and powdery, not grainy. If it feels grainy, pour it once more into the blender jar and blend for yet another 2-3 minutes.
Retailer your fancy handmade powdered sugar in an airtight container.
And ultimately, you presumably can merely do your dishes in under 5 minutes collectively together 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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