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Chestnut and Potato Purée

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Chestnut and Potato Purée

Chestnut and Potato Purée

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Equipment

  • - Immersion Blender: Ideal for pureeing soups, sauces, and smoothies directly in the pot without transferring.

  • - Food Processor with Sieve Attachment: Versatile kitchen tool for chopping, slicing, and pureeing; includes a sieve attachment for efficient liquid removal.

  • - High-Powered Blender (Vitamix Series): Capable of creating smooth purees and sauces, handles tough ingredients with ease.

  • - Electric Hand Mixer with Variable Speeds: Affordable option for mixing, beating, and pureeing large batches quickly.

  • - Food Processor with Dough Blade and Sieve Attachments: Efficient processing of various ingredients; dough blade is not needed but beneficial for other recipes.

  • - Stainless Steel Blender with Built-in Sifter (BLACK+DECKER): Provides smooth results, perfect for pureeing and comes with a built-in sifter.

  • - Hand Blender (NutriBullet Series 900): Compact hand blender that excels at pureeing, easy to move between pot and storage.

  • - Cuisinart Food Processor (14 Cup): Offers various speeds with attachments suitable for making many types of foods into purees.

  • - Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker (9L): Adaptable pressure cooker that can be used to quickly and easily puree ingredients after the initial cooking process.

  • - Ninja Professional Blender (512W 32GB)(Purely Puree Mode): Powerful blender with a puree mode for smooth, creamy textures ideal for recipes like chestnut and potato puree.

  • - Cuisinart Pulse Plus Blender with Easy Recipes App: Provides a puree function along with an app that offers step-by-step recipe instructions for creating purees.

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds medium yellow-fleshed potatoes such as Yukon Gold (about 8 medium)

  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter

  • 3 cups bottled peeled roasted whole chestnuts (16 ounces)

  • 1 quartt half-and-half

  • 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf

  • 2 1/2 teaspoons salt

  • 3/4 teaspoon black pepper

  • heavy-duty foil; a potato ricer or a food mill fitted with medium disk

Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Preheat oven to 450°F.
2

Instruction 2

Prick each potato in a few places with a fork, then divide potatoes into 3 groups and wrap each group in foil. Bake in oven until tender when pierced with a sharp knife, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.
3

Instruction 3

While potatoes bake, melt butter in a 4- to 5-quart heavy pot over moderately low heat, then cook chestnuts, stirring, 5 minutes. Add half-and-half, bay leaf, salt, and pepper and gently simmer, covered, until chestnuts are very tender and cream is infused with bay leaf, 15 to 20 minutes. Discard bay leaf, then transfer chestnuts with a slotted spoon to a blender. Add enough cooking liquid to purée chestnuts easily, then purée until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids). Return purée to pot with remaining liquid and stir together. Keep warm over very low heat.
4

Instruction 4

Holding them with a kitchen towel to protect your hands, carefully unwrap and peel potatoes, a few at a time, and push through ricer into chestnut mixture. Stir to combine (mixture will continue to thicken) and season to taste.
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