How to Blend Without a Blender
Yes, you can blend without a blender and also make delicious smoothies without a blender – your handmade smoothies can still be a healthy food source. If you’re stuck in a jam, it helps to know how to process food without a blender.
Most hand mixers can be used to make juices, smoothies, purees and similar forms, most of which have the consistency of liquid. Regular fork pastry blenders are also useful for crushing and pureeing ingredients to achieve the same results.
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To make a pureed smoothie, you only need a spatula, a whisk, and a glass that holds two cups of liquid or a cup of soft fruit, yogurt or kefir. If you wish, you can add a store-bought or pre-mixed smoothie of your choice. Traditional smoothies use yogurt or milk, but non-dairy smoothies can use juice, water, and soy, almond, or coconut milk.
Before preparing your smoothie, take a handful of soft vegetables or fruits that you would like to use in the smoothie. Make sure they are ripe so you can break them up easily without using utensils.
Add some of the soft fruit in a glass and start with the whisk to make it as soft and smooth as possible. Add 1 cup fruit juice, vegetable milk, yogurt or water and stir the mixture with a fork until it is completely mixed.
If you have fresh, but soft fruits such as bananas or peaches, chop the fruits, mash them, or crush them by hand. You can also use soft fruits such as ripe mangoes or berries. If you are using your food processor or hand blender, then blend them in a bowl prior to adding these fruits to the smoothie.
If you really don’t have the tools to make a fruit smoothie, powders are a great second option. The disadvantage of fruit powders is that they are low in calories and should not be considered a complete substitute for what you would get from a blended smoothie. Use flavored protein powders to add flavor and mass to smoothies.
Water and milk help blend all of the ingredients in a smoothie. For a cold smoothie, simply throw in a handful of ice cream and use crushed frozen fruit. For frozen fruit smoothies, rinse the soft fresh fruit and cut into small pieces or mash with a fork or hand masher.
You can also add your ingredients to a shaker bottle, and shake it until smooth.
A good smoothie without a blender must consider all the ingredients to be successful. Soft fruits such as bananas, strawberries, mangoes and peaches are easy to puree and in most cases do not require a blender. You can use your hand blender or food processor, but you need the fruits to be smooth.
