0 present participle of blanch --
2 to put vegetables or similar foods into boiling water for a few minutes to make them white, remove the skins, get rid of strong flavours, or prepare them for freezing: --
blanched almonds
Heat is applied by cooking, blanching or microwave heating in a manner that pasteurizes or sterilizes fish products.
The advantage is that the blanching step cooks the potato.
A vitamin loss of ten percent occurred during the blanching phase with the rest of the loss occurring during the cooling and washing stages.
With cultivation and blanching, the stalks lose their acidic qualities and assume the mild, sweetish, aromatic taste particular to celery as a salad plant.
The appliance is therefore fit for many culinary applications, including baking, roasting, grilling, steaming, braising, blanching and poaching.
Not blanching on pressure, bruises can involve capillaries at the level of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, or bone.
Raw mushrooms have a gastrointestinal irritant, hydrazine, but parboiling or blanching before consumption will remove it.
When treated with reactive oxygen species, its protective effect can be maximized by blanching with hypochlorite ion.