Blender - a cheap kitchen appliance, which is probably in every kitchen. Gentle smoothies, nutritious soups, flavorful sauces and savory mousses and creams - recipes for blender extremely varied, but in any case the dishes are prepared in minutes. Blender provides a soft, silky texture while keeping the original flavor.

History blender

Blender was invented less than a century ago - in 1922. A device with rotating blades was used for grinding and mixing of products (in English the verb to blend means "mixed, ready mix"). First, the invention was rated bartenders: the device instantly turns to ice chips. A blender quickly became a favorite instrument on restaurant kitchen, as well as in ordinary homes.

Today, there are two types of blenders: stationary and drowned. Regular is a bowl with a lid, which is equipped with rotating blades. Immersion blender is more comfortable: it can be used to grind food in almost every capacity - pan, bowls, plates.

Modern blenders usually have a few tips for milling and whipping. Still completely replace other kitchen appliances (blender, grinder, electric grater, food processor) blender can not. The first unit is used for crushing and mash products in the preparation of smooth blends.

From appetizers to desserts

Modern housewife's hard to imagine how difficult it was before undertaking the preparation of baby food Baby food - what to feed the baby?   with their own hands. Boiled vegetables rubbed, crushed, passed through a sieve to obtain a smooth and gentle mash suitable for infant nutrition. Whether business today: one push of a button - and the freshest puree is ready. If you use an immersion blender, even the dishes do not have to wash the excess: mashed potatoes cooked in the same pot, where boiled vegetables.

Just to quickly and easily prepare a variety of dishes can be for the whole family. Sandwich spreads and pates, guacamole and mincemeat, gentle herring butter and cheese salad - appetizer, once considered exclusively festive, since their preparation takes a long time today, you can cook almost every day.

Blender extends the range and the first courses by gentle soups, purees and soups creams. These soups have many advantages: they are well assimilated, differ relatively small calorie, but it creates a feeling of satiety for a long time. Pumpkin and ginger, broccoli with cheese, chicken with vegetables, mushrooms and cream, hearty pea with smoked or low-calorie soup of zucchini and zucchini - the sea of ​​options. These soups are happy to eat the children, including a little fussy, who refuse to have a good half of the usual ingredients in the soup.

Hot dishes are rarely cooked puree. But rarely - it does not mean never. Blender will help prepare thick flavorful sauces, casseroles mixture to fill Casseroles. The variety and economy , Vegetable purees for garnish in a few minutes. The most labor-intensive operations are both magically simple. One move, and left after frying steaks oil mixed with meat juice and browned vegetables, will become a wonderful fragrant gravy. A delicate egg-based sauces never curl up, if their heat while whisking blenders.

Desserts are prepared in a blender, too elementary. The thick milkshake or a gentle cream creamy, velvety chocolate ganache or Kurd - blender allows even beginners feel Cooking Chef. Fruit purees and marmalade, whipped cream, homemade ice cream, crisp shtreyzel, nut crumb batter puddings or cookies prepared almost instantly. You can experiment with ingredients and spices, knowing that in any case, the dessert is the consistency of soft and silky.

Smoothies and other drinks

Indispensable blender and for the preparation of a popular healthy snacks - smoothies. The composition of this dish is simple, like all brilliant: a smoothie is a delicate sauce of fresh fruits, vegetables and berries. Prepared in a blender drink keeps all vitamins and minerals fruits, moreover, it is rich in fiber. And if you add to a fruit smoothie milk or yogurt Kefir: a unique drink for health and harmony But also a smoothie enriched with calcium.

Of course, you can purchase a smoothie at the store, but much more fun to cook a whipped cocktail own, adding a fruit, berries, vegetables, nuts, dairy products, herbal infusions, honey and a variety of other ingredients to taste. No worse than obtained with the help of a blender and other cocktails - from milk to soft "adult" with strong drink.

Better without the blender

Sure, use the blender comfortable and pleasant, and the speed of cooking with this fascinating instrument. And sometimes it's better not to use the blender and remember about other ways of cooking.

For example, the mixer is much better cope with whipping eggs - especially egg whites for meringue. Batter mixer is also better to cook, not a blender. Attempts to prepare with the help of a blender minced meat is also doomed to failure: the unit is too much grinds meat, excised its fibers. Cutlets from such meat will not be successful: they will lose a lot of juice, will be unfamiliar texture and taste unintelligible.

Not a good idea - to prepare with the help of a blender mashed potatoes turn into a sticky rubbery mass. Knives blender destroy the structure of the tuber, it stands out as a result of starch and mashed potatoes instead of the similarity obtained paste. Therefore, in this case it is better to forget about new technologies and take advantage of the good old tolkushkoy for potatoes.

Maria Bykov