Cooking is an art. Period. But, this art is no fun or even nearly therapeutic on any weekday. C’mon think about it as you dodge the traffic, push yourself through crowded trains to rush home you prepare yourself mentally to get the energy and swiftness of a ninja so that when reach home and the clock strikes 8 PM you can manage to cut or chop the vegetables and other ingredients, knead the dough at a superhuman speed to prepare the dinner on time and manage some time to get some rest. But, even if you are a ninja in the kitchen it will take you a good 60 minutes or more (depending on what’s cooking) to prepare supper. Moreover, after standing in long queues for auto, buses, and trains and then again standing for several minutes in kitchen to cut each ingredient is Phew! Daunting.
But, what if you can cut your 60 minutes of entire cooking time to about 40 minutes? Is it possible? Yes, indeed with a food processor and its sharp and amazingly designed daggers you can upgrade the Ninja skills in you. This superb kitchen appliance is beauty with blades that accomplish an array of functions like; shredding, slicing, kneading, chopping, mincing and more within a fraction of time than the time taken to complete these task manually.
Although buying a food processor is rewarding, the real challenge lies in understanding the usage and configuration of the eight different set of blades that generally come along with a food processor.
From kneading different types of dough to preparing chutney’s and quick salads you can do endless tasks with this multifaceted kitchen appliance sounds good isn’t it? So, let’s get a succinct understanding on how these commonly found blades help you to cook food in a jiffy like a pro.
Generally you find, chapati’s, phulkas and parathas as a staple in almost every household. But for preparing this, the messiest, arm aching and time consuming job is to knead the dough. This tedious task could take around 30 minutes inclusive of 15-20 minutes rest time. However, you can curtail this entire time consuming process to approximately 5-10 minutes with the help of a Plastic Dough Blade in the food processor. All you need to do is put in the required quantity of wheat flour (atta) thereafter, add salt to taste or as required. Run or pulse the processor for half a minute to ensure that the ingredients are thoroughly mixed together. Now, maintain the pace or speed at 1 and slowly trickle down a cup of water from the chute. Initially you will find the flour in a crumb state, but as it continues to soak up the water the flour will eventually form into a soft supple dough.
Apart from kneading the dough you can use the food processor and it’s blades to lessen the time in preparing the raw materials required to cook sabji or curries which are an inevitable part of the diet in almost every Indian home. Let’s for instance take the delicious Veg Korma (a mixed vegetable curry, served and relished along with hot phulkas or chapatis). You will certainly agree that its preparation is an enduring procedure. Chopping onions, tomatoes, garlic, chilies and other ingredients like; carrots, green bell pepper, mushrooms green beans, cauliflower etc. alone takes around 15 -20 minutes. Adding to this, another 10 -15 minutes in cooking the entire dish. Its sheer hard work isn’t it? Although a detailed line up of the ingredients may seem a little intimidating.
A Sabatier blade a.k.a S-blade allows you to place your knife down and toss all those required materials into the food processor for proficient and uniform chopping in about 5 minutes! That’s not all the accurately chopped ingredients not only looks appealing but is appetizing as well.
While, some of you may also prefer and enjoy the taste of coconut milk in the curry the effort put into shredding of coconut for the same by hand is strenuous. However, with the help of a Coconut Shredding Disc you can shred or grate a coconut almost in a minute that too effortlessly and add the freshly made coconut milk to the curry as required.
Some on the other hand, prefer using yogurt and heavy cream to add thickness and texture to the curry. If done manually, you need to continuously whisk the two ingredients for almost more than a minute until you get the desired consistency. That being said, you achieve the perfect consistency of yogurt and heavy cream within seconds with the help of a Whisker Disc.Just attach this blade to the device and add the required amount of yogurt and heavy cream and whisk it for just 30 seconds and voila! You have a smooth creamy texture of yogurt and heavy cream ready within a blink of an eye.
How about including a healthy platter of salads along with your meal? Sounds good? Then again cutting the vegetables like carrots, beetroots, cabbages into thin strips or slices by hand is challenging and equally dangerous as it could also cause deep cuts. Well, you can avoid injuries and prepare salads instantly with the help of a Julienne Disc or a Slicing Disc or Shredding Disc.These blades let you cut all the vegetables into thin uniform strips, slices or shreds with ease.
After preparing the dinner before time and heaving a sigh of relief, if you feel like indulging in treating yourself with a glass of fresh orange or sweetlime juice then just place the Citrus juicer on the food processor and squeeze out fresh juice seamlessly. You can relax and enjoy a glass of healthy juice filled with the goodness of antioxidants at the comfort of your home.
Let’s get real, with hectic schedules and a little time on hand it is impossible to don a Ninja attitude everyday. Therefore, a Food processor is a worthwhile investment as it literally manages to cut your entire one hour duration of cooking to almost around 40 minutes. This device is just like an extra sets of hands in the kitchen as it manages to do everything you need within few minutes.
So, if you feel the need to break free from the endless procedure of cooking food on a regular basis you need to consider on buying a food processor from your home.
