I’m so excited, Rural Sprout Readers. I obtained a model new blender for Christmas.
Okay, top quality. I bought myself a blender the first week of December.
My outdated 70s Osterizer $5 thrift retailer uncover wasn’t chopping it anymore. (Constructive, it was Harvest Gold, and I beloved it.)
I obtained myself a spiffy Blendtec blender, and I’ve been using it for your entire factor.
It’s a blender, Tracey; it blends stuff. You can’t use it for your entire factor.
I do know that, nonetheless should you get a model new kitchen toy, you find yourself in search of every quite a few to place it to make use of. Genuinely, I’ve presently discovered ten cool belongings you can do collectively collectively collectively along with your blender.
Don’t think about me? Analysis on, my good pal.
1. Make Lazy Lemonade
I really actually really feel we’re able to all agree that the powdered stuff that’s accessible in a can is solely gross. Latest-squeezed lemonade is on a regular basis possibly the most effective.
Effectively, what if I educated you, you most likely 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 probably can 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 appropriate correct proper right into a pitcher; add ice and a few lemon slices for garnish.
When you’re 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.
You probably can too make among the many finest strawberry or blueberry lemonade this sample as precisely 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 on a regular basis thought there was some large, extremely efficient course of for making nut milk. I couldn’t have been extra mistaken.
All you do is soak almonds in water in a single day. (Do this half contained within the blender jar as precisely.) All by 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 utterly completely completely different add-ins you want – vanilla, a sweetener, berries, or cocoa powder.
Combine all of the concoction for a few minutes, then pour it appropriate correct proper right into a nut milk bag (pretty a lot of layers of cheesecloth will do the trick, too) in a big bowl and squeeze all of the delicious goodness out of it.
Similar to every single problem we’ve ever handed over to producers to make for us – the house made mannequin is infinitely tastier.
Oh, should you’re accomplished making almond milk, save your pulp and make almond meal. Head over to Minimalist Baker to be taught one of the simplest ways.
3. Pesto Perfection
For possibly the most effective 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 should you’re scraping the sides? Effectively, not anymore.
I exploit Meredith’s basil pruning practices, so all through {the summertime}, my basil vegetation are on a regular basis pushing out massive leaves, week after week. I would merely make pesto by the gallon.
Mmm, a gallon of pesto.
Using a blender makes your entire course of heaps sooner. It’s heaps less complicated to pour from a blender jar than it is from the meals processor too.
4. Peanut Butter
While you’ve by no means 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 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 particular person hand-crafted peanut butter will nonetheless have a barely gritty texture when accomplished. While you’ve bought all-natural peanut butter forward of, what I’m talking about.
The flavour will doubtless be so heaps elevated, though.
The essential concern to the final phrase phrase handmade peanut butter is to let it combine for a gradual 5 minutes. Be affected particular particular person and let it go for all of the 5 minutes, scraping the sides as wished.
For kind that is out of this world, toast your peanuts barely forward of 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 most likely 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 approach. Bye, Bye Jiffy.
Should you want a exact recipe, The Kitchn has you coated.
5. Pizza Sauce
I’ve on a regular basis thought canned pizza sauce was somewhat little bit of little little little bit of a gimmick. It’s primarily uncooked spaghetti sauce, proper?
Applicable.
Make easy and up to date pizza sauce that’s ready in minutes as a result of pizza night is extra 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
- Flooring black pepper to kind
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.
Regarding a cold winter’s day, nothing beats a scorching bowl of soup. Take your creamy soups to a whole utterly completely completely different stage by mixing them contained within the blender forward of 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 sometimes 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 massive, chances are high excessive extreme you will need to take into consideration mixing with out the lid or with the lid on halfway, so the mannequin new air has a spot to flee.
As shortly 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 while you aren’t cooking pancakes for a crowd, get your blender out anyway as a result of blender pancakes are heaps sooner and less complicated. I’m lazy contained within the kitchen, I must know.
Put your entire pancake batter substances contained within 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 really, I like to recommend like ever.
And I’ve no regrets.
I found this trick from Waffle Residence quite a few years prior to now. They combine their eggs in a milkshake mixer forward of creating 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 forward of you place 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 kind of sauces that’s comparatively simple to make in thought, nonetheless thought and actuality often line up in my kitchen.
Until now.
I present the quickest, largest, non-separating hollandaise sauce ever, my mates.
No double boiler, no whisking until your arm comes off. Merely easy, tangy, creamy hollandaise sauce able to be drizzled over your entire factor.
Like one completely different hollandaise sauce, prep this proper forward of 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 contained within the scorching, effervescent butter. Virtually immediately, it will thicken into the delicious yellow sauce all folks is acutely 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 should you’re baking and perceive you’ve run out.
I had no idea that this was even one concern it is attainable you will make at residence. I don’t know why, nonetheless there you go. It merely goes to diploma out how terribly reliant we have got 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 accomplished, pour quite a few of the sugar appropriate correct proper right into a bowl and run your fingers via it. It ought to mainly really 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 another 2-3 minutes.
Retailer your fancy handmade powdered sugar in an airtight container.
And in the long run, you presumably can merely do your dishes in beneath 5 minutes collectively collectively collectively 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 presents it some love.
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