Do you only make a smoothie now and then, or has your blender been collecting dust in the back of the cupboard for a while? Time to get your blender out again.
1. Ground coffee beans
Great coffee from fresh beans, but how do you grind it if you don't have a machine for it? Simple, the blender also works.
2. pesto Making pesto is very easy in the blender:take 30 grams of Parmesan cheese, 30 grams of basil, 2 tablespoons of roasted pine nuts, a clove of garlic, a pinch of salt and 75 milliliters of extra virgin olive oil. In the blender and blend.
Fancy something different? These are three delicious variations on pesto.
3. Pasta sauce
Cook the vegetables, throw the vegetables with some herbs in the blender and you make delicious pasta sauce yourself. You can also puree leftover vegetables and then freeze it in batches. Pureed vegetables are really not just for children.
4. Whipped cream
Beating whipped cream doesn't have to give you a paralyzed arm, with the blender you have whipped the whipped cream to the perfect thickness.
5. Soup
Do you prefer a smooth soup? Then you can blend the soup. Make sure that your blender jar is suitable for hot ingredients.
6. Cauliflower rice
Great to use as a substitute for couscous. Read here how to make cauliflower rice. You can even make a healthy pizza base from it.
Point of attention
Note how powerful your blender is, you don't want to blunt the blades. In some blenders you can even crush ice, while other blenders already have trouble with hard vegetables.
Want to buy a blender?
These are three things to keep in mind when choosing a blender.
Read also
> Blender recipes from Allerhande
> Recipe for blender cheesecake, tested by Dailylin
