Food Processor - What you really use it for?

Queenie

What do I use my Magimix for? :think:

breadcrumbs
mincing up cooked meat
chopping up/mincing raw meat
meatloaves
making HM coleslaw
vegetable rosti's
grating
juicing citrus fruits
cakes
soups
ice cream
Impossible Pie
grinding coffee beans
chopping herbs
make hummous/pates/potted meat

smokey112

I have a Morphy Richards which up until last year was used for very little - now I use it all the time

- chopping veg for soups and curries
- grating cheese - I do this with every block of cheese
- juicing limes/lemons
- making breadcrumbs
- blitzing sauces
- grating veg for coleslaw
- chopping herbs

amongst other things

Ang

monkmorency

Could somebody advise me please, as I'm not very clued up on food processors, but I have been thinking about getting one.

I already have:

- a liquidiser
- a stick blender
- a hand held electric whisk (with dough hooks, but I've never tried making pastry with them, as they look a bit weedy!)

Do you think it would be worth me getting a food processor, as I would like to be able to chop rather than puree vegetables. Grating cheese sounds good too - could they all do this? And can they all do pastry?

I was looking at something like this so as not to duplicate the gadgets I already have

HopeElizzy

pawpurrs wrote:

I use mine for making homous, making macarel pate, making pastry grating cabbage.

:hello: I used mine this morning to make homous - I gave the little ones it with carrot sticks for their snack.

Mine does get used quite alot for a variety of reasons, most of which have already been mentioned on here.

Queenie

dinkydee wrote:

Hi Pawpurrs, would you mind letting me know how you make both the hummus and mackeral pate, they sound lovely. Thanks in advance

Hummous is simply ...

Can of chickpeas
garlic clove (to your personal taste, minimum 1 )
dribble of olive oil
1 Tblsp tahini (if you can't find it - Health Food Store - use peanut butter)
squeeze of lemon

Drain the chickpeas, reserve the water ... put the ingredients into the Food Processor and blitz! If too thick, you can thin it down with some of the reserved water.

My FIL's low fat Mackerel Paté

2 fillets of smoked mackerel
2oz natural yogurt
3oz lot fat cottage cheese
Black pepper to taste
Pinch nutmeg.

Skin and flake mackerel, add all the other ingredients, blitz to a smooth paste then chill.

Charis

Used mine yesterday to make a chocolate cake for my daughter's birthday. Tip all ingredients for chocolate sponge into processor, whizz till sloshy, pour into large pyrex bowl, microwave for six minutes, cool, cover in chocolate buttercream icing and halved giant chocolate button pieces and voila! A chocolate hedgehog. Actually a chocolate fest. Has become a tradition, as dd was 25 yesterday.

beemuzed

Have just asked DH (as he does most of the cooking here!) what he uses the processor for - same as others, coleslaw, onions, cheese, veggies for soup, combining ingredients for beefburgers and (very occasionally) pastry. I'm impressed! We also have a Kenwood Chef, which I bought in the early 80's when I was still in charge of catering which has a blender - and he also has a stick blender used mostly for sauces I think. I do wonder whether there's some duplication here? But I'm not about to rock the boat by questioning him - I like having my supper ready when I get in from work!!!

By the way, thanks for those two recipes, Queenie have printed out for attention of my cook in charge!

nell2

Have just whizzed up some Gazpacho in mine. Very yummy and incredibly healthy.
Probably use mine most for making cakes though. Very yummy and not very healthy!)
Saw a Kenwood Chef on offer in a shop in town for £99 yesterday and was very tempted. I did not know that they peeled potatoes! The only thing is, it did look rather big.

wan2save

i have a suggestion for your food processor........caulslaw(probably spelt wrong ) finely chop white cabbage+onion+carrot +you can use cheese seafood etc and mayonaise or salad cream or both ,it tastes great ,i cant give you the quantities as i judge for myself but dont use too much white cabbage!
hope u enjoy!

JoeyEmma

I do the same as most people here, would like to add that its also ace for-
1. making home made mayo, hollandaise, Bearnaise sauces yourself. Far cheaper and tastier than buying it in
2. I just used mine today to puree up some mangoes for making a sorbet.
I use it about once a week. In the summer its always out as I whizz up herbs and spices into marinades for barbeques.