How Do You Puree Food Without A Blender?

This is a fine question deserving a straight answer. There are ways to carry out the task of food puréeing without using a blender. The only challenge is that it will take a lot of time and effort to do.

Pureeing food without a blender might seem impossible to so many people because we all are used to motorized blenders that are powered by electricity. Have you asked yourself how people of old did it?

How they pureed their foods in time past? Or do you think food purring is a new normal? Of course not! People of old have been doing it and it’s good we also know how to do it as well as things to use in case of emergencies or power failure.

Haven known this, I’m glad to say that a wide range of methods that you can use to puree food without a blender truly exist and I’ll share six with you right now.

How Do You Puree Food Without A Blender? To puree food without motorized machines such as blenders and its likes is to go manual using the top six manual ways discussed in this article.

Top six ways to puree food without a blender:

Contents

Grater (such as this OXO Etched Box Grater with Removable Zester)
Fine-mesh sieve (This New Star Foodservice Stainless Steel Chinois Strainer Set does the job perfectly)
Wooden Mortar and Pestle ( Check this Thai Mortar and Pestle out)
Kitchen knives
Potato masher (such as this Prepara Stainless Steel Potato Masher )
Grinding stone

To know how to apply these above-listed tools, stick around a little more and I’ll show you how!

It’s true that foods pureed without a blender won’t come out as smooth as one that was processed with a blender but the aim of this article is to provide and remind us of the alternatives that exist aside from using blenders to puree our food.

Some even say that food pureed without blenders taste better. Well, we will argue that later or better still ask, grannies at home.

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What Does It Mean To Puree Food?

Food puree simply put, is turning solid recipe to a lower density or watery state. Here the recipes are either ground, pressed or strained to a smooth state like a pudding. The textures ranges from chunky and rustic to smooth and silky.

However the outcome of the texture, it solely depends on your target/desire. The term “puree” has its origin in French meaning to purify/ make smooth/clear. It refers to cooked food that has been passed through a sieve or blender to achieve a fine state.

Babies mostly feed on pureed foods because its easy to munch and swallow. Some parents mash potatoes before serving their kids. As it’s a way of making chewing less stressful for them. Pureed food is not only meant for kids, adults too consume it.

But while some adults do so as a result of craving, others are forced to by one health condition or the order. For instance, oral/ dental surgery, jaw injury, digestive disorder and so on will subject the patient to depend solely on pureed food. Also, aged people who can no longer chew well can take advantage of it.

Veggies such as tomatoes are pureed to make tomatoes soups, stews and source. Some food recipes require food puree to aid the cooking process. Its a practice that has long existed. Instruments such as blender, grater, mixer… can be used to puree food into the desired fine state

Haven known what food puree is, are there foods that cannot be pureed? Well, virtually any food can be pureed. Aside from fruits that can be consumed raw, cooked food can also be pureed. The essence of pureeing food is to make it less hard.

You can, for instance, puree avocado, chicken and potatoes to make soup. All that is required are few steps like making sure your potato and chicken breast are properly cooked and allowed to cool.

Put them in a food processor, add little warm water then process to your desired texture. Round up by adding your avocado, seasoning cubs ground pepper, salt and any other spice you desire to make it taste good and you have a delicious potato soup right there!

Food puree is great but as you embark on your adventure have in mind that crumbly foods such as bread, cookies, muffins, biscuits, cakes are no go area. You can only soften them with a slurry mixture not blending smoothly in a processor. If you do otherwise, the outcome will not be appealing and might irritate.

How Do You Puree Food Without A Blender-FAQ

Do Purred Food Digest Faster?

The main objective of food pureeing is to aid consumption and boost digestion. So yes! purred foods digest faster and the reason is not farfetched. Ingredients in pureed food are already soft, some are in a watery state so, it doesn’t require much action to digest.

`The only thing to look out for is the combination. Consult a nutritionist to know recipes that can be combined to soothe your body type as well as your health condition.

Patients with digestive disorders are largely advised to settle for pureed foods. Pureed food are the best option for those on diet. Smoothies are results of food puree. As we examine the idea of softening our foods before consumption, we will begin to appreciate the practice.

Aside from easy and quick digestion, pureed food helps you get all the nutrients out of your meal. It also eliminates the problem of weight loss emanating from illness due to the inability to chew and munch food because it serves as a bridge between solid and liquid food.

It is true that some pureed food are more palatable than the other in terms of taste and nutritional content but if you know a few tricks and consult your nutritionist for the best combo, you are in for a life-changing adventure.

As established earlier in this article, the task of food puree is usually carried out and made easy with the help of kitchen blenders, such as Ninja BN801 Professional Plus Kitchen System with Auto-iQ , food processors such as Cuisinart FP-8SV Elemental 8 Cup Food Processor and even an immersion blender like Philips 300w ProMix Titanium

For the sake of this topic which is focused on showing us how we can puree food even without these common appliances that we are already used to, I shall walk you through what I call the ‘”Manual Puree”.

Knowing manual ways of pureeing food takes the problem of electricity challenges off your mind. As you can use these tools anytime any day! Let’s see how we can puree certain foods without necessarily using electrical appliances.

How To Puree Peas without A Blender?

In life nothing is impossible, all we need is to give it a trial. Growing up with my grannie exposed me to some methods of getting things done. In their time there was nothing like motorized blenders yet they still carried out their normal pureeing routine.

Even when grinders and blenders were introduced into the system, she will insist we do it the old way for her, claiming it’s the sweetest! Baby food then were mashed with fingers before feeding the young ones and life went on.

You can use mortar and pestle to successfully carry out this task. It was an emergency that reminded me of my grannies old way of pureeing food.

Our blender had suddenly developed mechanical faults and I desperately needed to puree peas so I improvised using a mortar and pestle. Peas are not difficult to puree per se and are usually not pureed raw. So imagine how soft the peas will be when cooked at low heat for about ten minutes?.

All I did was cook my peas and pour in my mortar which was readily available. Here is how you can puree peas using a mortar and a pestle.

Procedure (mortar and pestle)

Boil the peas for ten minutes in low heat
Pour into a watched mortar
Using the pestle, gentle mash the peas. Mash until you have pieced then
Avoid making huge mess of splashing it everywhere by not pound hard
Keep going slowly till its a bit watery
Now stop pounding and start rolling your pestle
Using the pestle, roll the peas against the mortar like in a plastering format
Press the pestle against the mortar tightly and keep rolling.
You will notice the gradual change in texture
Roll till smooth and sieve with cloth or fine mesh depending on the consistency. You can serve without sieving if you do it right.

How To Puree Garlic Without A Blender( using a grater )

First you have to peel off the outer layer
Rinse in clean water
place the grater in a flat or wide deed bowl
Then pick scrub the garlic on the sharp surface
do it in batches and that’s it.

How about doing it the other way using a grinding stone?

Repeat the peeling and rinsing process
wash the grinding stone thoroughly
place the washed garlic on the grinding stone
And slowly grind to paste.
Use a knife or spoon to search the ground garlic into your container.

In addition, you can also use mortar and pestle but it depends on the quantity to avoid losing them to the mortar. Garlic is important in our diets. It’s best-served ground. With these methods hope I was able to help out?

HOW TO PUREE SOUP WITH A BLENDER

It’s no doubt that blenders get the work done but let’s explore other ways we can puree our soups without it. We shall be using the earlier mentioned manual tools. As a way of introduction, I’ll like to say that pureed soups are most enjoyed and nourishing too.

Let’s discuss soups and steps to puree them without a blender.

Creamy Potato Soup(Preferably Irish potato but anyone can serve)

making creamy potato soup is easy. You just have to know the volume of what is needed. let me share a few tricks with you.
For 700g of potato you will need:

2 1/4 cups of regular milk
1 1/2 cup of look warm water
5 1/2 tablespoon of butter
4-5 cloves of chopped garlic
1 tablespoon of salt (to taste)
Pepper for taste
You can get onion leaves or fresh parsley for decoration
Note: you need a mortar, pestle and a bigger pan for this

Let’s get the show on the road!

Wash all the potatoes thoroughly
Cut them into small piece
Set your saucepan on a low heat
Put two tablespoons of butter
Add chopped garlic
When garlic turns golden brown, add the cut potatoes
Sauté the potatoes for a while
Add 2more tablespoons of butter
Then add 1 cup of water, close the lid
Allow to boil till potatoes soften.
Lift the lid, stir and check
If there’s a need to cook more, add little water
Allow to cook a while.
When potato is soft, turn off the cooker
Pour into your mortar
Use the pestle to slowly grind to make a paste
Add little water at a time and keep driving the potatoes with your pestle till you get a smooth paste
Add milk to lighten the paste
When you have gotten a fine paste
Transfer back to same saucepan and cook in medium heat
Add the remaining milk to get the right thickness
Pending on your target, you can add a little extra milk
Add the pepper and salt to taste
Add either your onion leaves or fresh parsley for decoration
Serve hot and enjoy!

HOW TO MAKE FRESH TOMATO SOUP

Tomatoes soups are sumptuous and there are different ways to make them. Do you know that you don’t always need too many ingredients to make a tomato soup? I’ll show you how to make one with just three ingredients: onions, fresh tomatoes and butter.

What to do:

Wash your fresh tomatoes
Cut your butter into smaller pieces
Peel cut your onions
Place a saucepan on low heat
Throw in your butter and allow to melt
Add your onions
Next is the tomatoes
Add little water to it
Cover and allow to seamer for a while
Off and use your potato masher to smoothen it
Continue till you achieve a smooth paste
Sieve with a fine mesh to remove residues
Serve and enjoy with your bread!

How Do You Puree Food Without A Blender?-Conclusion

Food puree is a good way to get all the required nutrients present in our meals. This is not to say that all our foods must be pureed but try to include it in your daily recipe. We have looked at what it means to puree food, mechanical ways of doing it as well as localized or manual ways.

The manual method discussed in this article might not be the best or fastest way of pureeing food as blenders get things done fast, neatly and smoothly. But These methods are improvisational means of getting things done. Go on an adventure today!