10 Fulfilling Food Processor Recipes to Try

It usually happens that people buy home appliances without having an idea on what they can do with these tools. Thanks to the great marketing efforts one can find his/ her kitchen full of devices and yet do not take advantage of the benefits each of them can provide.

In this article, it will be provided a list of 10 most usual, healthy and delicious dishes you can prepare with a food processor that, for the time being, might be one of the appliances you have forgotten at your kitchen.

The food processor recipes that have been selected to be part of this article can be easily cooked from anyone, without the necessity of being a culinary expert.

1. Choco Pudding – Ingredients

• 225g dates, pitted

• 150g water

• 150g of dark chocolate

• 90g butter

• 3 eggs

• 250g flour

• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Preparation process:

You start with cooking the dates until they become soft enough. Once they have cooled down, proceed with adding the dates and all the other ingredients into the food processor. You should keep processing the mass until it becomes totally regular.

Once you have achieved a fully balanced mass, you can proceed to fill your cups and baking them into the oven for 15 – 20 minutes at 180 degrees of temperature.

2. Pestos for pasta – Ingredients

• 2 ounces of pecorino cheese, cut into cubes

• 1 peeled garlic clove

• ¼ cup pine nuts

• 3 cups of fresh basil leaves

• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

• ½ cup of extra virgin olive oil

Preparation process:

In order to prepare the pestos, it is necessary to use the chopping blade. You have to turn on the food processor and add the pecorino and garlic to be chopped. After this, you should add the nuts to be chopped.

At the end, it should be added the basil and the salt together with the olive oil. You should continue processing the mass until it becomes regularly balanced.

3. Meatballs – Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef

• 1/2 pound ground pork

• 1/2 pound ground veal

• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup of cheese

• 1 1/2 tablespoons parsley

• Salt and ground black pepper

• 2 cups of bread

• 1 1/2 cups of water

• 1 cup of olive oil

In order to prepare a delicious dish of meatballs, you have to fist grind the meat. This food processor key component is the grinding process itself. No need to mention that grinding meat yourself is safer and healthier.

Preparation process:

Add beef, veal, and pork into the food processor and start grinding them until you receive an equivalent mass. After this, you can slowly add garlic and eggs. Blend them together and immediately add cheese, parsley, salt and the black pepper. Blend the bread into the mixture. Slowly add the water. Roll them up.

4. Mayonnaise – Ingredients

• 1 large egg yolk

• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice

• 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar

• 1/4 teaspoon mustard

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3/4 cup canola oil

Preparation process:

All you need to do in order to succeed with this food processor recipe is whisking, whisking and still whisking slowly all the components together in the food processor.

5. Nut Butter – Ingredients

• Nuts

• Other seeds as per convenience

Preparation process:

Add as many cups of nuts as you wish into the food processor and process the amount until you see they have been fully processed.

After this, start blending until reaching a compound balanced mass. Refrigerate and ready to be tasted.

6. Cheese shredding – Ingredients

• Cheese

• Herbs as per convenience

Preparation process:

The food processor can do magic once you are about to shred cheese. Whatever type of cheese and herb combination you are willing to achieve, just put the blocks of cheese into the food processor, shred them together with the desired herbs.

This mass can be added to your pasta, rice or cooked potatoes.

7. Garlic prawns – Ingredients

• 30 large raw prawn tails

• 2 peeled cloves garlic

• red chili peppers

• 60ml olive oil

• 10 sprigs fresh parsley

Preparation process:

All you need to do is to add the garlic, pepper and lemon juice into your food processor and process until they are totally chopped. Once this process has been completed, you should add the olive oil and prawns and mix them together. Parsley should be chopped as well. After marinating the prawn’s dust the parsley.

8. Lemon Tart – Ingredients

• 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

• tbsp granulated sugar

• 1 tbsp lemon zest

• 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter

• 1 egg yolk

Filling

• eggs

• egg yolks

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1/3 cup cream

• 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice

Preparation process:

Mix the flour with sugar and lemon zest in the food processor. Add butter and egg yolk and mix again. Drop the mass in the pan.

You should then whisk the eggs and egg yolks with sugar in the food processor. Whisk in cream, then lemon juice. After this, you proceed with traditional preparation of a tart.

9. Yeast rolls – Ingredients

• cup skim milk

• 1 package dry yeast

• 1⁄4 cup sugar

• 2 eggs

• 1⁄4 cup oil

• 1⁄4 cups flour

• 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation process:

Blend warm milk, sugar, and oil and eggs yeast. Mix flour and salt.

Add the yeast mixture and stir.

Let it rest for 30m. Fill greased muffin cups half full. Bake at 350 for 18-20 min.

       10.  Ceasar Salad Dressing – Ingredients

• 1 egg

• 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated

• 1⁄4 cup lemon juice

• ½ garlic cloves

• 1 teaspoon Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper

• 1⁄2 cup olive oil

• 1⁄2 teaspoon dry mustard

Preparation process:

Blend together Worcestershire sauce, egg, lemon juice, cheese, garlic, mustard, salt tabasco, and pepper. Slowly add oil and blend till it becomes a creamy mass.

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