0 to make fruit or vegetables into a thick, smooth sauce by crushing them, usually in a machine:
Purée the strawberries in the liquidizer and add the lightly whipped cream.
1 a thick, smooth sauce made by crushing fruit or vegetables:
Add two tablespoonsful of tomato purée.
apple purée
2 to crush food into a thick, soft sauce:
Puree the bananas thoroughly in a blender.
Colorings and flavorings are often added, such as chocolate, fruit purees, and various extracts.
They are available fresh, dried, ground or canned (whole or in puree).
Their favourite transmission is a commercial for tomato puree.
Fruits can also be dried in puree form, as leather, or as a powder, by spray of drum drying.
Beans puree or ("sos pwas") is often poured on top of white rice.
Additional flavor and nutrition was provided from inexpensive canned tomato paste and puree, hummus, tahina, and mayonnaise in tubes.
The filling varies, but tuna, sardines or meat are used most commonly in a tomato puree, garlic and onion sauce.
Other fruits or even flavoured liqueurs (peach schnapps, for example) are sometimes substituted for the peach puree.