what can i use instead of a food processor?

raven83

i want to make some prawn toasts (chinese styley ) the recipe requires a food processor to mix the prawns oil and herbs, but unfortunatly mine has died a death . is there anything else i can use to make it into a paste? what did they do in os times? :beer:

hot.chick

a knife...

just keep chopping... the chinese probably still do it like this..

lynzpower

Yes I would just finely chop. Then if you want to when you mix the lard in, use a potato masher to get it all together.

Pink.

As the others have said, chop it as finely as you can using a knife then if you have one you could use a pestle and mortar to combine it into a paste.

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Maitane

Some things respond well to the old freezer bag wrapped in tea towel and beaten to death treatment.

meritaten

I often wonder when chefs say 'this is a traditional recipe', then proceed to use a food processor - what the heck they used fifty or a hundred years ago? Victorians used a food mill, before that it must have been knives and pestle and mortar! or perhaps they just liked it a bit lumpy!

hilstep2000

Chop, Mincer or if you have it, pestle and mortar.

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Mouli Grater perhaps

valk_scot

Wooden spoon in a jug. Chop the prawns up a bit with scissors, add herbs, chop more, pound the lot together with the spoon and add the oil at the end.

Bronnie

Crush the prawns on a chopping board with the side of a Chinese cleaver if you've got one or a wide bladed knife. Very quick and less washing up!