New Food Processor

[Biscombe]

Got my first ever food processor (an early birthday present from my OH´s parents) Wow!! How did I live without it!! Made onion bahjees the other day, sooooooo easy!! Fancy sharing tips with a beginner!? What do you do with yours?

[Biscombe]

[kt.]

Never used one before so for me , the question would be what to do with it? ::)

[tricia]

What type is it Bis? Does it have a blender attachment? I use mine a lot in the winter for blitzing soups among other things. The processor part gets used for finely chopping onions, carrots, etc. and for making breadcrumbs or grinding almonds. I also use it for making caster sugar. I just buy regular granulated and grind it fine for baking uses ;).


Tricia

[supersprout]

Oh, I remember my first Magimix and the joy of purées! Now that we're a smaller family, we do most soup blitzing in the pot with the stick blender whizzy thing. But we still use my son's food processor for:

chopping and shredding veg for salads (I remember watching my mum make coleslaw by hand ::))
industrial quantiites of hummus
mincing meat
making fresh pasta and chapati dough

:D

[Obelixx]

Mine gets used for carrot cakes, muffins, soups, sauces, purées, coulis, ice cream mixtures, chopping onions which otherwise make me cry, slicing cucumbers and grating carrots for salads at large gatherings and BBQ's.....

The pulse button is excellent for the final mix of muffins.  I've been told by an expert that 12 stirs are the maximum for mixing the wet and dry ingredients or they can be heavy.  12 pulses do the trick nicely.

[Biscombe]

Supersprout ;D Pretty please! Can I have the recipie for making fresh pasta and chapati dough!!
Obelix  ;D Cheeky now!! Can I have the recipie for carrot cakes, muffins!

Golly! I was excited before now I can wait to get my hands on that machine!!!!

[Obelixx]

I've posted the carrot cake recipes on another thread in recipes http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,91/topic,27315.0 and there was a muffins thread a few months ago that I posted a load on too, both sweet and savoury - http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,91/topic,13883.0 .

[Blue Bird]

It makes excellent sugar pastry / also great for old bread into breadcrumbs which I then turn into old fashioned Queen of Pudding  ;D

Own curry paste is also a doddle

just mind your fingers with the blade - have once cut myself quite deep when hand washing  :( :(

[Marymary]

I'm going to make the carrot cake muffins at the weekend. Thanks for the link. 

Any chance of the onion bahgees recipe - pretty please.  :)

[Biscombe]

Thanks for al the helpful replies! Blue Bird - cury paste sounds good! hint  ;)

Onion Bhajee recipie

To tell you the truth I guessed this!

Here goes

4 onions fried until transparent (sliced in processor of course!!)
garam flour (chick pea flour)
salt (I missed this!!)
Curry paste (Blus Bird´s sounds good  ;))or any spices that you will think will work
water

mix the flour, spices and water (AND SALT!) together  to make a stiff, smooth batter
Add onions

If the mix is stiff you can shallow fry and make flatish Bhajee´s or you could deep fry them


This is my first attempt but they all got eaten!!

[Marymary]

Sounds great Biscombe, just need to remember some garam flower when I go shopping.  Thank you