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Step 4Frappe? Nay, puree.
So up until this point it can safely be said that we have simply been making soup or stew, but all that is about to change through the liberal use of power tools. In order to transform our plain old soup into a creamy, savory bisque we must puree our mixture.
Once again, I recommend that you use caution here, although the whirring blades are reasonably well housed in the blender, they will be spinning at a frightening speed through a very hot liquid, which would love nothing more than to spray out of the blender and give you a lovely burn to remember them by. So use potholders and make sure all covers are in place, etc. to keep this safe and fun for the whole family.
If you happen to own an immersion blender, or perhaps you win one as part of the Instructables soup contest, this is an absolutely perfect place to use it. Using an immersion blender you will be able to puree the mixture in the cooking pot, avoiding the dangerous transfer of hot liquids. Still, use caution, those immersion blenders are essentially outboard motors on sticks, like something from one of the Phantasm movies, so please be careful.
For those of us with traditional blenders, you will need to transfer the soup to the blender, taking care not to splash as the vegetables fall into the broth. On my blender it takes two and a half carafes of puree-ing to process the entire batch through it's semi-magical transformation from soup to bisque, so grab a serving bowl to transfer the bisque into as you process it.
At this point you could and some would say should pour the mixture through a sieve to strain out any larger pieces, but I say throw caution to the wind and consider any tiny pieces of unassimilated bell pepper to be evidence of the handmade nature of this product.
Stick with me, we are almost there...
Once again, I recommend that you use caution here, although the whirring blades are reasonably well housed in the blender, they will be spinning at a frightening speed through a very hot liquid, which would love nothing more than to spray out of the blender and give you a lovely burn to remember them by. So use potholders and make sure all covers are in place, etc. to keep this safe and fun for the whole family.
If you happen to own an immersion blender, or perhaps you win one as part of the Instructables soup contest, this is an absolutely perfect place to use it. Using an immersion blender you will be able to puree the mixture in the cooking pot, avoiding the dangerous transfer of hot liquids. Still, use caution, those immersion blenders are essentially outboard motors on sticks, like something from one of the Phantasm movies, so please be careful.
For those of us with traditional blenders, you will need to transfer the soup to the blender, taking care not to splash as the vegetables fall into the broth. On my blender it takes two and a half carafes of puree-ing to process the entire batch through it's semi-magical transformation from soup to bisque, so grab a serving bowl to transfer the bisque into as you process it.
At this point you could and some would say should pour the mixture through a sieve to strain out any larger pieces, but I say throw caution to the wind and consider any tiny pieces of unassimilated bell pepper to be evidence of the handmade nature of this product.
Stick with me, we are almost there...
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