Breville pick and mix VHB112 User manual

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pick and mix
hand blender

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product safety
!Never use this appliance for anything other than its intended use. This appliance is for
household use only. Do not use this appliance outdoors.
!Always ensure that hands are dry before handling the plug or switching on the
appliance.
!Always use the appliance on a stable, secure, dry and level surface.
!This appliance must not be placed on or near any potentially hot surfaces (such as a
gas or electric hob).
!Never immerse any part of the appliance or power cord and plug in water or any other
liquid.
!Never let the power cord hang over the edge of a work top, touch hot surfaces or
become knotted, trapped or pinched.
!Do not use the appliance if it has been dropped or if there are any visible signs of
damage.
!Never use any accessory or attachment not recommended by the manufacturer.
!Make sure that all attachments are securely and correctly tted before operating the
appliance.
!The blades and cutting accessories have very sharp edges. Take care when handling
or cleaning them.
!Allow moving parts to come to a stop before changing or cleaning accessories.
!Never process hot or boiling liquids. Allow them to cool before processing.
!We do not recommend that you use your blender in a non-stick pan to avoid damaging
the pan.
READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
This appliance can be used by children aged from 8 years
and above and persons with reduced physical, sensory or
mental capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge if
they have been given supervision or instruction concerning
use of the appliance in a safe way and understand the hazards
involved. Children shall not play with the appliance. Cleaning
and user maintenance shall not be made by children without
supervision.
Always disconnect the appliance from the mains supply
socket if it is left unattended and before assembling,
disassembling or cleaning.
Do not allow children to use the blender without supervision
If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the
manufacturer, its service agent or similarly qualied persons
in order to avoid a hazard.

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before using your appliance
Ensure that the appliance is switched off and unplugged from the supply socket
if it is left unattended and before assembling, disassembling or cleaning.
The blades and cutting accessories have very sharp edges. Take care when
handling or cleaning them.
Never immerse any part of the appliance or power cord and plug in water or any
other liquid.
Never use harsh, abrasive or caustic cleaners to clean this appliance.
1. Remove your hand blender carefully from the box. You may wish to store the
packaging for future use.
2. Check the contents:
• Motor unit
• Blending attachment
• Chopping bowl and lid
• Chopping blade
• Measuring beaker
3. Wash all parts that will come into contact with food. Use warm soapy water then rinse
and dry thoroughly.
4. Using a mild detergent solution, wipe the motor unit with a damp cloth. Dry
thoroughly.

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features
1 ON button
Press and hold to operate your hand blender at its normal speed.
2 TURBO (high speed) button
Press and hold to operate your hand blender at its highest speed.
3 Motor unit
4 Blending shaft
Stainless steel blending shaft.
5 Chopping bowl lid
For use with the chopping blade and bowl.
6 Chopping blade
Ultra sharp, stainless steel chopping blades.
7Chopping bowl
For use with the chopping blade and lid. Dishwasher safe.
8 Measuring beaker
Mixing/measuring beaker. Dishwasher safe.

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Due to our policy of continuous improvement, the actual product may differ slightly from the one illustrated in these instructions.

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the blending attachment
Using the blending attachment
For the most consistent results, food should be processed in small quantities and be cut
into 1 inch cubes before blending.
1. Squeeze and hold the two buttons on the side of the motor together.
2. Line up the two dots (one on each side) on the blending shaft with the buttons.
Release the two buttons. Ensure that the motor unit and the blending attachment are
correctly assembled and securely locked in position.
3. Insert the blending attachment into the food.
4. Press the ON or TURBO (high speed) button.
When pureeing food, it is important to use enough liquid (juice, milk, cream, broth, etc) to
create a smooth mixture.
• Adjust the consistency of the mixture by adding more liquids or soft solids.
• Don’t use the blending attachment to process meat or cheese.
• The blending attachment can be used directly in a pan though we do not recommend
that you do this in a non-stick pan to avoid damaging the pan.
Do not operate the unit continuously for more than 60 seconds without giving it
a rest period of one minute

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the chopping attachment
Ensure that the appliance is switched off and unplugged from the supply socket
if it is left unattended and before assembling, disassembling or cleaning.
The chopping blades have very sharp edges. Take care when handling or cleaning
them.
Never place the chopping blade assembly on the motor body by itself.
Do not operate the chopping attachment continuously for more than 30 seconds
(20 seconds on hard food) without giving it a rest period of one minute. The
chopping attachment is not suitable for processing hot food.
Position the chopping bowl on a dry at surface close to the mains supply socket.
1. Lower the chopping blade into the chopping bowl.
2. Add the ingredients to the chopping bowl.
3. Fit the chopping bowl lid to the chopping bowl.
4. Twist the lid to lock it to the chopping bowl. Ensure that the lid is correctly assembled
and securely locked in position.
5. Squeeze and hold the two buttons on the side of the motor together.
6. Line up the two dots (one on each side) on the chopping bowl lid and push the motor
unit and bowl lid together. Release the two buttons. Ensure that they are correctly
assembled and securely locked in position.
Quick Food Chopper Ideas
• Bread crumbs: For quick and easy bread crumbs add a couple of pieces of bread,
preferably a couple of days old (but not stale), in your chopping attachment and chop
until ne.
• Sweet Biscuit Base: Add digestive biscuits, broken into halves with a little softened
butter. Mix until chopped and combined.
• Nuts: For desserts or nut roasts, add the nuts and pulse in quick bursts until crushed.
7. Garlic, Onions, Herbs and Chilli: Use your chopping attachment to chop ingredients
for marinades, dressings and sauces. Use it to chop onions—tear free!
• Crushing ice: Place 10 or so ice cubes into the chopping bowl and add 150ml of
water. Pulse your blender until the cubes are crushed. For best results, let the ice
cubes defrost slightly for a few minutes before processing.

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recipes
Zesty Eaton Mess
Any dessert made with crushed meringue needs to be eaten almost immediately,
otherwise the meringue with begin to soften and disintegrate once it is mixed with any
moisture.
• 2 - 3 shop bought meringue nests (or homemade if you prefer), crushed.
• 300ml double cream
• 200 g strawberries
• 200g raspberries
• 1 tbsp lemon Juice
• 1 tbsp Icing sugar
• 4 large mint leaves
• Zest of 1 lime
• Mint leaves to garnish
1. Place 100g of the strawberries and 100g of the raspberries into the mini chopper. Add
the lemon juice and icing sugar and process until smooth. Pass the mixture through a
sieve to remove any pips, adjust the sweetness if required. Chill.
2. Place the cream into a suitable bowl and blend until softly peaking.
3. Place the remainder of the strawberries into the chopper bowl with the mint leaves.
Roughly chop together using by pressing the on button in short pulses.
4. Add the remainder of the raspberries, chopped strawberries and mint, zest and
crushed meringue to the cream and softly fold through.
5. Place into a suitable glass dish or wine glass and drizzle with the fruit sauce. Stir the
sauce through the mixture to create a swirled effect using a skewer.
6. Garnish with some extra mint if desired.
For an alternative dessert, why not keep the meringue nests whole, top with the thick
cream and berries and drizzle with the homemade fruit sauce.

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Knickerbocker Glory
Many different avours of ice-cream, fruit, meringue and jelly can be used to make a
Knickerbocker glory. To serve, always try to use a tall sundae-style glass with a long
handled spoon—perfect for reaching those delicious avours at the bottom.
• Two jellies of your choice (strawberry and orange work well).
• 1 small tin of fruit cocktail or peaches in fruit juice
• 1 punnet of fresh berries (strawberries, raspberries or blueberries)
• Ice-cream of your choice
• 200ml of double cream
Sundae toppings (these can be any of the following or a combination of your favourite)
• Grated chocolate, fruit sauce, chopped nuts, fudge/chocolate chips,fresh
berries,sugar sprinkles etc)
1. Make up the jelly in advance. This can be done the day before. To make two
Knickerbocker glories, only half of each jelly is required, so ideally just use half a
packet of each. For an extra fruity avour add a splash of your favourite fruit juice to
the water when preparing the jellies. Alternatively use the juice from the tinned fruit.
Place the jellies in 2 separate bowls and chill to set.
2. Using the hand blender attachment whip up the double cream in the beaker and set
aside in a refrigerator.
3. Once the jellies have set, cut into chunks and place into the chopping bowl, using
one of the avours at a time to keep them separate. Process till chopped into small
dice. Repeat with the other avour.
4. Assemble your Knickerbocker Glory to serve immediately,
5. Place a small amount of the fruit into the bottom of the glass, top with a layer of jelly,
add a couple of scoops of your chosen ice-cream.
6. Repeat again until the dessert is almost at the top of the glass.
7. Pipe or spoon the whipped cream on top and decorate with your preferred toppings.
8. Place the spoon into the side of the glass and serve.

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recipes
Homemade Chocolate fudge sauce
Great for an ice cream, pancake or meringue topping
• 1 x 410g Condensed milk
• 300g dark chocolate chips
• 125g soft brown sugar
• 50g butter
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
1. Place the evaporated milk, chocolate chips and sugar into a heavy based saucepan.
Slowly bring to the boil, stirring continuously.
2. Once the mixture is boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Remove
from the heat and set aside to cool for 10 minutes. At this stage the mixture can be
removed from the pan to aid the cooling process, but this is not necessary.
3. Place the butter and vanilla extract into the chocolate sauce and using the hand
blender attachment, blend all the ingredients together until smooth and glossy.
4. Use to your requirements. This sauce will keep perfectly in your refrigerator for up to
2 weeks. Store in a sealable container away from strong smelling foods.
Strawberry Fool
This lovely summery dessert would work just as well with other seasonal soft fruits. Try
raspberries, blackberries or stewed rhubarb
• 100g strawberries, hulled,
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• 200ml homemade custard, chilled (ready made custard can be used as an
alternative)
• 200ml chilled double cream, whipped
• 50g grated dark chocolate
• 2 whole strawberries, washed.
1. Place the strawberries and icing sugar into the chopper bowl and process until
smooth, pass the sauce through a sieve to remove the pips.
2. In a clean bowl, combine the chilled custard and cream together. Next, swirl in the
strawberry sauce leaving a couple of spoonfuls of the sauce for garnish.
3. Spoon the fool into some long stemmed serving glasses and top with the remaining
sauce, grated chocolate and whole strawberries. Chill until required.

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Blueberry Smoothie
• 1 small banana, broken into bite sized pieces
• 150 g blueberries
• 175ml chilled apple juice
• 150 ml natural yoghurt.
1. Place all the ingredients into the blender beaker and blend for 30 seconds until
smooth.
2. To serve, pour into a glass.
Berry Milkshake
Many of the high street supermarkets now sell frozen berry mixes or smoothie mixes in
the freezer cabinets. These are great standby’s when your favourite fruit is not readily
available and an easy way for you to achieve one of your 5-a-day!
• 300ml chilled semi skimmed milk
• 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
• 1 large handful of your favourite berries
• 1 tsp honey (to add a touch of sweetness, optional)
1. Place all the ingredients into the blender beaker and blend for 30 seconds until
smooth.
2. To serve, pour into a glass and enjoy
Raspberry Sparkler
• 4 whole raspberries
• 50 ml passion fruit liqueur
• 300ml chilled Prosecco
• 200ml chilled cranberry juice
• Mint leaves to garnish.
1. Place the liqueur and cranberry juice into the blender beaker, and blend for 20
seconds.
2. Top up with the chilled Prosecco.
3. Place two whole raspberries into two cocktail glasses then ll with the cocktail.
4. Add a touch of crushed ice and garnish with the mint

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recipes
Peachy Mango Smoothie
• 2 ripe peaches
• 1 ripe mango
• ½ a lemon, juiced
• 100ml of white grape juice
• A handful of ice cubes
1. Cut the mango in half and carefully remove the stone. Remove the mango esh and
chop into chunks.
2. Do the same to the peaches.
3. Add the mango, peach, white grape juice and lemon juice into your hand blender
beaker and then blend until smooth.
4. Pour the smoothie over the ice and enjoy.
Oreo Cookie Milkshake
• 6-7 Oreo Cookies
• 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream
• 150ml of milk
• A good squeeze of chocolate syrup
1. Place the Oreo cookies into the chopping bowl and process with your hand blender
using short pulses until crushed.
2. Pour the biscuit crumbs into your hand blender beaker and then add the ice cream,
milk and chocolate syrup.
3. Use your hand blender’s blending attachment to mix all the ingredients together.

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Tomato and Chickpea Soup
• Olive Oil
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 1 leek, chopped
• 1 potato, peeled and chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, nely chopped
• 1 tbsp of nely chopped rosemary
• 400ml of vegetable stock
• ½ a teaspoon of sugar
• 2 x 400g of chopped tomatoes
• 410g of chickpeas drained and rinsed
• 1 tablespoon of dried mixed Italian herbs
• Salt and pepper
1. Put the vegetables in a large saucepan with the garlic, rosemary, Italian herbs,
stock and sugar. Season with salt and pepper and stir. Cover and cook gently for 25
minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
2. Add the tomatoes to the pan and then using your hand blender carefully puree until
smooth. Keep the blade part of the blending shaft immersed in the soup to avoid
splashing. To avoid damage to the pan, we do not recommend that you blend soup in
a non-stick pan.
3. Once it is smooth, add the chickpeas and heat through, stirring occasionally and
seasoning to taste.
4. Serve warm with toasted French bread and melted cheese.
Tomato and Avocado Salsa
• 4 large ripe tomatoes
• 1 red chilli
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• ½ teaspoon ground coriander
• Juice of 1 lime
• 1 small red onion
• 2 medium-ripe avocados (halved, stoned)
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 8 tablespoons of coriander leaves
• salt and black pepper
1. Roughly chop the tomatoes, avocado and onion into big chunks and add to the
chopping bowl along with the other ingredients. Chop with quick pulses until all the
ingredients are combined.
2. Serve with tortillas or sliced vegetables.

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recipes
Pesto
• 60g basil - leaves only
• 20 large spinach leaves – tough stalks discarded, blanched for 30 seconds in boiling
water
• 1 tablespoon at-leaf parsley leaves, blanched
• 1 teaspoon rock salt akes
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled
• 60g Parmesan, freshly grated
• 55g pine nuts
• 150ml extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons Ricotta cheese (optional)
1. Blend the basil, spinach, parsley and salt the using the chopper bowl or blender
attachment on your hand blender. Process until smooth.
2. Add the Parmesan, pine nuts and olive oil, and process until emulsied.
3. Scrape the mixture into a bowl and fold in the ricotta cheese. Ricotta is not traditional
but it helps to prevent the oil separating. Only add the ricotta if you are going to use
the sauce within a couple of days.
4. To preserve the sauce for longer, eliminate the ricotta from the recipe and place the
contents into a clear glass jar, coating the surface with a lm of olive oil. Cover and
refrigerate.

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Chicken Tikka Marinade
• 2 cloves of garlic (peeled)
• ½ fresh red chilli (deseeded)
• 15g of fresh ginger
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
• 50g of yogurt
• ½ tablespoon garam masala
• 1 teaspoon of tomato puree
• 100g of coriander leaves
• 400g of chicken breast
1. Add all the ingredients to the hand blender beaker, excluding the chicken. Use your
hand blender to puree the paste until it is smooth.
2. Cut the chicken breast into chunks and then place it in a bowl. Pour the paste onto
the chicken and stir so that it is evenly coated.
3. Leave it covered, preferably overnight and then cook the chicken either under a hot
grill, on a barbeque or in your favourite curry sauce.
Carrot and Parsnip Mash
• 2 parsnips, peeled and cut into chunks
• 3 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
• 30g of unsalted butter
• Salt and pepper
1. Boil the vegetables in some lightly salted water for about 15 minutes until they are
tender. Drain well.
2. Place the vegetables in a container with the butter. Use your hand blender in pulses
until the vegetables are completely mashed. Season to taste.

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Cod with a Parmesan Crust and Tomato Sauce
• 2 tbsp of olive oil
• 4x cod lions (skinned and boned)
• 1 ½ slices of white bread (a couple of days old works best, but not stale)
• 40g of freshly grated parmesan
• The zest of one lemon
• The juice of two lemons
• 25g of butter
• A handful of fresh thyme (leaves picked, storks removed)
• ½ can of chopped tomatoes
• Mixed Italian herbs
• ½ tsp of sugar
• Salt and pepper
1. Roughly tear the bread and put it into the chopping bowl. Then add the parmesan
and lemon zest. Chop for about a minute until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan on a medium heat and lay the sh in it to that
they are all laying at on the base of the pan and cover with a lid.
3. Cook for about 3 minutes and then place pieces of the butter around the sh. Pour
in the half of the lemon juice and the thyme leaves. Cook for a further 5 minutes,
depending on the thickness of the sh, until it is cooked. You can test this by gently
testing with a fork to see whether the sh is soft and aky.
4. In a separate pan slowly heat the tomatoes, and stir in the sugar and the rest of the
lemon juice. Season to taste.
5. Spoon a little of the oil and lemon juice in the frying pan over the sh and then
sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture over.
6. Place the pan under a grill for 1-2 minutes and let the crust turn golden.
7. The sh tastes delicious served on a bed of risotto with the tomato sauce drizzled
around it.
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cleaning and storage
Ensure that the appliance is switched off and unplugged from the supply socket
if it is left unattended and before assembling, disassembling or cleaning.
Never immerse any part of the appliance or power cord and plug in water or any
other liquid.
Never use harsh, abrasive or caustic cleaners to clean this appliance.
The blades have very sharp edges. Take care when handling or cleaning them.
Clean the motor unit and the blending attachment with a damp cloth only. Use a washing
up brush to get rid of any stubborn food deposits which have stuck around the blade.
The chopping bowl and measuring beaker can be cleaned in the dishwasher.
After processing very salty food, you should rinse the blades right away. Also, be careful
not to use excessive amounts of cleaner or descaler in your dishwasher.
Storing
Store the hand blender in its packing or in a clean, dry place, out of the reach of children,
ensuring all parts are dismantled.

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connection to the mains supply
If the plug is not suitable for the socket outlets in your home, it can be removed and
replaced by a plug of the correct type.
If the fuse in a moulded plug needs to be changed, the fuse cover must be retted. The
appliance must not be used without the fuse cover tted.
If the plug is unsuitable, it should be dismantled and removed from the supply cord and
an appropriate plug tted as detailed. If you remove the plug it must not be connected to
a 13 amp socket and the plug must be disposed of immediately.
If the terminals in the plug are not marked or if you are unsure about the installation of the
plug please contact a qualied electrician.
This symbol indicates that this unit is a Class II appliance and therefore an earth
connection is not required.
Do Not Connect
Mains Wires Here
Blue
(Neutral)
Brown
(Live)
Fuse
Ensure that the outer sheath of
the cable is firmly held by the cord grip
Plug should be ASTA approved to BS1363
Fuse should be ASTA approved to BS1362
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