Recipes for baked goods, creams, salads sometimes require crushed nuts. Special devices for crushing kernels are not always at hand, but they can be easily replaced with others.
It is necessary
- - nuts;
- - rolling pin or crush;
- - meat grinder;
- - blender.
Instructions
Step 1
For some dishes, you need to chop the nuts as small as possible, for others - larger. So, in creams, a small fraction of this product is needed. In salads, you should come across larger particles, as in the dough for a muffin or casserole. Then not only the taste of the nut will be present, but every piece of it can also be felt.
Step 2
Sand rings are familiar to older and middle-aged people from school days. They were an obligatory attribute of the cafeteria of the educational institution. This pastry is prepared from shortcrust pastry, which must be rolled out and cut in the form of a ring. Further, the top of each product is greased with a protein or egg and sprinkled with peanuts.
Step 3
It is not very pleasant to feast on this dessert if the nuts are unpeeled or their hard skin comes across. To avoid this, first fry the peanuts over low heat in a dry skillet, stirring constantly. When its sides are reddened, remove from the stove and cool.
Step 4
Now peel off each nut. It can be easily removed from fried foods. Now put the nuts on a wooden board, take an ordinary rolling pin and roll the product with it. Each nut should fall into 4-6 pieces. This is how you need to grind the nuts for the Sand Ring cake. This method will help out even when there is no automated kitchen equipment available. For the same purpose, a pestle or wooden crush is suitable. These kitchen paraphernalia will help turn the nuts into a smaller mass if you need to.
Step 5
Another device from the distant past, which is still relevant today, is a meat grinder. Through its millstones, you will pass a lot of cores. They will be of a homogeneous fraction. In this case, you will complete 2 tasks at once: chop the nuts and sharpen the meat grinder knife. This operation will help him become sharper and faster to perform the assigned function of grinding.
Step 6
Sometimes only lightly chopped walnuts are added to some salads. To get them, place the kernels on a kitchen board and cut with a knife. This method also does not require the use of electrical technology.
Step 7
If you want to add finely crushed nuts to the cream, use a coffee grinder. Place a small portion there and press the button. If you don't want them to turn into flour, then don't get too carried away with this process. When the recipe requires precisely fine crushing, you can grind them a little longer. The blender will also take over this function. With this kitchen technique, the nuts will quickly turn into a product of the desired consistency.
