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Thanksgiving meals often kick off with a warm bowl of creamy soups. Comforting, velvety and full of autumnal flavours, Thanksgiving soups are all about acquiring a fine, smooth texture, which lends them a soft, silky nuance. And making these Thanksgiving soups becomes an easier process when all the ingredients are put into a mixer grinder. This straightforward kitchen apparatus becomes that secret part of your culinary arsenal that transforms chunky vegetables into silky purées while unlocking the deeper flavours in the soup recipe. Using Usha's Mixer Grinder to make Thanksgiving soups can make your favoured first course of the festive meal sheer perfection.
Roast First, Grind Later
The first key tip to perfecting Thanksgiving soups is a simple, but rather effective hack. It involves putting vegetable chunks in the mixer grinder after roasting them first. Whatever the soup type, from pumpkin to sweet potato to carrot and even garlic, the best way to get the textural smoothness into the soup is to roast the vegetables prior to grinding. Roasting caramelises the veggies, adding sweet and smoky flavours. As well, this process also softens the vegetables so they can be ground into a smooth, flavour-packed purée.
Smaller Jar For Spice Pastes
This is another interesting hack to ensure that the soups made for Thanksgiving pack a lot of rich fall flavours. Most Thanksgiving soups derive their more pronounced tastes from these seasoning pastes including garlic and ginger paste for butternut squash or pumpkin soups or a peppercorn and clove paste for mulled winter soups. Use the smaller chutney jar of the mixer grinder to make these pastes so they can be ground very finely to produce richer and fresher flavours than any packed versions.
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Nut Milks And Creams For Dairy-Free Soups
For those who prefer to go dairy-free or vegan with their Thanksgiving soup recipes, the mixer grinder can be a real advantage especially to extract milk and cream out of nuts. Soak ingredients like almonds or cashews in hot water, strain them and add them to soups for a silky, rich finish. The mixer grinder can also be used to extract fresh coconut cream that can accentuate the creaminess of a classic Thanksgiving pumpkin soup.
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Mastering The Velvety Texture
What makes the festive soups stand out is their creamy, velvety texture. This can be achieved rather smoothly when the soup purée is prepared in a mixer grinder. The ultra-smooth finish of sweet corn soups or potato-leek soups can be achieved by mastering the use of the mixer. Allow the veggie chunks to cool for a few minutes and add them to the mixer jar till it is just half full. Open the lid to let a bit of steam out. Just before grinding, close the lid and place a kitchen towel on it to avoid pressure build-up and to give the soup its quintessential creaminess.
Pulse Mode For Rustic Finishes
And then there are those Thanksgiving soups like corn chowder or minestrone that work just as well even when they carry a slightly rustic, cruder texture. This is where the pulse mode of the mixer grinder comes in. Use this feature to simply crush vegetable chunks mixed with broth and spices to coarsely grind them, without turning them into a proper purée-like paste. This is an excellent hack for serving soups featuring a rustic and chunkier finish.
