purée

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It is especially common in Middle Eastern cuisine, where tahini is a key ingredient in hummus (a purée made with chickpeas, garlic and lemon juice) and baba ghanoush

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  1. transitive verb To rub through a strainer or process (food) in a blender.
  2. noun Food prepared by straining or blending.

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  • We had a splendid dinner with self-made apple purée in red wine, potato fritters and boletus with scrambled eggs and chives - all fresh from the garden and the woods! —  The EDM SuperBlog
  • We're talking major chestnut purée, half bottles of dessert wine, yogurt. —  Nico Muhly
  • To serve, place salmon on top of cauliflower purée; drizzle with honey-soy mixture and serve with a dollop of wasabi mixture.
  • Process in a food processor, then press purée through a strainer.
  • Best: from the buffet, veggie stews like yellow lentil with carrot and potato, red kidney bean in vibrant spinach purée, or garlicky zucchini with tomato; brown basmati rice balls stuffed with sultanas and walnuts; salads like beet with carrot, quinoa with broccoli, or black bean with red onion; to finish, massive almond spelt cookies; to drink, fair trade coffee in filtered water. —  NOW Magazine
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  1. From French, purée, from Old French, from feminine past participle of purer, to strain, clean, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, clean; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, a thick soup or porridge prepared from vegetables: see porrey.
 

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