VIDEO: Puree without a hand blender

Prepare the puree - without a hand blender

Pureeing without a hand blender is labor-intensive and time-consuming. The success of pureeing depends crucially on how hard you want to and can work. And it is also important how finely tuned the result of your work should be. Mashed potatoes, for example, can contain small pieces of potato, as can vegetable mash. Many eaters even want this. The situation is different if you want to make a porridge for the baby or a fine pesto.

1. Chop the ingredients with a knife or mash them with a fork. The finer you do the preparatory work, the easier it will be to puree the ingredients.
2. Some vegetables or fruit, but potatoes can also be easily mashed with your hands after they have been well pre-cooked.
3. Or you fill the vegetables or Put the ingredients you want to puree without a hand blender in a durable plastic bag. Then edit the contents with a potato masher. Make sure that the bag is closed tightly.

So you can puree very finely

For baby food or pesto you often want to puree the ingredients even more finely than is possible with the methods suggested above.

• After the preparatory work, you should drive the puree through a sieve or "rework" it in a brisk lotte so that you can also finely puree coarse leftovers. With slightly tougher ingredients, you should first access a coarse sieve.
• Very soft ingredients like carrots or also potatoes, but also many pesto ingredients can also be finely pureed with a whisk. However, you need some muscle strength here, which a blender naturally takes away from the troubled cook.