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The Food Processor: 13 Ways to Use It & 29 Recipes to Prove It

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The food processor is a fantastic tool, a must have for busy kitchens. There are plenty of food processor recipes you can make as well as numerous ways to use it in your kitchen. I love to use my food processor for making super creamy cheesecake batter, homemade hummus and it makes my pizza dough a breeze!

An overhead photo of cilantro chopped in a food processor.

 

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I love my food processor, and right along with my KitchenAid mixer it’s probably the most used appliance in my kitchen. I use it for many tasks, including making homemade pizza dough, crumbs for breading, and even to make cheesecake! I have the cookbook 650 Best Food Processor Recipes, by George Geary and Judith Finlayson. It’s absolutely overflowing with great recipes using your food processor. Another cookbook that I don’t have yet is The Best Bread Ever: Great Homemade Bread Using your Food Processor, which was mentioned and praised in the NY Times article The Food Processor: A Virtuoso One-Man Band.

An overhead photo of creamy avocado in food processor.

Tips for Using Your Food Processor

If you really hadn’t considered your food processor a work horse, then you’ll definitely want to read 7 Ways to Use Your Food Processor plus check out 7 more below!

  1. Making Crumbs – Turn graham crackers, dried bread, cookies and other crackers into crumbs for use as toppings, crusts and filler.
  2. Pureeing – The food processor makes quick work of soups, sauces and other pureed liquids.
  3. Slicing and Chopping – Aside from shredding, the attachment that comes with your machine includes a slicing and chopping blade that’s ideal for raw vegetables and hard fruits.
  4. Cheesecake – There are several cheesecake recipes where the batter is whipped until silky smooth using a food processor.
  5. Grains to Flour – If you want to try your hand at making your own flour, use the food processor to make quick work of your whole grains.
  6. Homemade Butter and Mayonnaise – Making homemade mayonnaise is a snap and saves your arm from the aches a whisk can cause! Homemade butter is as easy as pouring heavy cream into your food processor and watching it churn!
  7. Make Your Own Baby Food – Processing large batches of cooked meats, vegetables and fruits are not only done quickly in a food processor, but the blades eliminate any possibilities of leftover chunks that a stand mixer might leave behind. Freeze homemade baby food in ice cube trays then transfer frozen food to freezer bags.

Food Processor Recipes

And, if you still aren’t sure, here are more than 25 tasty food processor recipes from this blog as well as others to get you started. So dust off that appliance and start putting it to work!

A photo of different recipes that use a food processor.

Food Processor Recipes

  1. Rustic Rosemary Garlic Bread
  2. Blackberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake and Mini Cakes
  3. Tomatillo Onion Avocado Salsa
  4. Mini Turtle Cheesecakes
  5. Homemade Salsa from Canned Tomatoes
  6. KFC Coleslaw
  7. Sun Dried Tomato Pesto
  8. Homemade Chicken Nuggets
  9. Chocolate Mousse Cake
  10. Whipped Brie Stuffed Strawberries
  11. Easy Pineapple Salsa
  12. Easy Homemade Fruit Roll Ups
  13. Cream of Asparagus Soup
  14. Strawberry Frozen Yogurt NEW!
  15. Creamy Avocado Yogurt Dip – Two Peas and Their Pod
  16. Morning Buns for Slackers – Ezra Pound Cake
  17. Homemade Breakfast Sausage – Healthy Green Kitchen
  18. Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake – Smitten Kitchen
  19. Homemade Pasta Noodles – Big Girls Small Kitchen
  20. No Cook Fudge – Cookie + Kate
  21. Homemade Mayonnaise – Umami Girl
  22. Making Butter – We Whisk Away
  23. Coleslaw – Vanilla Clouds and Lemon Drops
  24. Perfect Pie Dough – Little B Cooks
  25. Homemade Pesto – Sam Tan’s Kitchen
  26. Creamy Citrus Jalapeño Cilantro Pesto – The Jey of Cooking
  27. Amazing Hard Boiled Egg Oatmeal Cookies – Baking and Boys
  28. Herb Mustard Glazed Salmon – Cooking in Stilettos
  29. Cranberry and Chocolate Chip Scones – Vanderbilt Wife

And finally, if you have a mini food processor, you will want to check out how to use this little work horse by reading 10 Ways to Use Your Mini Food Processor.

A photo of a person using a food processor.
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Amanda Davis is the entrepreneurial mom of four grown children and four step children. She and her husband, Chef Antoine, love to cook together creating recipes for this blog. Amanda also make kid's crafts and creates decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also a craft book author five times over and product developer as well as the owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com. You can find her on social media by using the buttons to the left!
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  3. Yolanda R says

    I’ve a KichenAid processor, I want to cut vegetables into strips of 6 or 7cm long; how can I make these cuts.
    I need long strips of cucumber, carrot and jicama

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      Your best bet, since all brands are different, would be to pull out your user manual. There should be instructions in there on how to use the attachments that it came with. If you don’t have your manual you should be able to google your model # and find it that way. Otherwise, contact KitchenAid customer service :)

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  4. Beryl Dorey says

    I have a new kitchen aid food processor and a new cuisinart ice cream maker. The ice cream maker keeps jamming and making loud popping noises and then fails. What causes this?

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  5. Jennie says

    I visited the 13 Unique uses page, but there were only 7 tips ??? Did I miss something or did the page change.
    Thank you for the great recipes though! And I’m looking forward to making butter!

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  6. Bill Everist says

    I received my new processor for Christmas and an idea came to me that went really well. My friends and family always enjoy my cooking, but, suggested I share this. I doubt it is new, but I haven’t seen it and thought I’d share it.
    2 split chicken breasts
    1/2 thick slice of cheddar cheese (cubed)
    1 pat of butter
    salt and pepper to taste.
    Pulse until a course ground chicken is attained.
    Fry in a little olive oil.

    It’s excellent, easy and very fast.

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  7. Tari says

    Thank you for this web site. I just bought my food processor an Oster. After I got home I could hardly wait to use it. Then I thought what am I going to do with it.

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  10. Lauren says

    I love this! I am obsessed with my food processor (and coffee maker of course) and love these ideas for using it! There are so many recipes I’ll be trying.

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  12. Linda says

    Since I heard about sofrito, I have been making it in my food processor for use for the entire week. Sofrito can be many combinations but mine is onion, celery, carrots and olive oil (if you are from New Orleans you probably would leave out the carrots and put in bell pepper or you may want to add the pepper). Sometimes I add zucchini, green onions, roasted poblano or parsley.
    This is the basis for everything from soups to meatloaf to casseroles to spaghetti sauce! The food processor makes it quick and I always make enough for a week at a time.

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  13. Melissa Fritz says

    I have really taken to using my food processor for making ground chicken and turkey. Pre packaged these meats are so expensive but you can get chicken breasts for 99 cents a pound so I get them on sale and pulse small chunks until I have affordable lean ground meat for recipes. I have a sausage grinder but I like using the food processor better. It is easier cleanup and easier usage.

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  15. Sarah says

    Hi all, could you recommend a food processor? I’m looking to buy one and I’m not sure what I’m looking for, there are so many options! I know I’d like it to chop, slice and purée, also to be used for soups and baking cakes and will definitely try the recipes above once I have a FP! Any help is appreciated x

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  16. Katrina says

    Great post, Amanda! And thanks for the link love! I use my FP pretty much daily as well, for almost all the reason you listed.
    And I think I’ll go make the HBE cookies right now, since there are a couple dozen hard boiled eggs waiting in the fridge downstairs. ;)

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