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INSTRUCTION &
RECIPE BOOKLET
Deluxe 11
Food Processor
DFP-11
For your safety and continued enjoyment of this product, always read the instruction book carefully before using.

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  • Page 1 INSTRUCTION & RECIPE BOOKLET Deluxe 11 ™ Food Processor DFP-11 For your safety and continued enjoyment of this product, always read the instruction book carefully before using.
  • Page 2 Do not rotate the bowl clockwise on the INSTRUCTIONS base. This will cause the bowl to separate from the base. This package contains a Cuisinart ® Food 7. Place the processor on a counter or table Processor, and these standard parts for it: metal...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Bread Dough Problems and Solutions ....13 Important Safeguards ....4 Preparing Food for Slicing Introduction .
  • Page 4: Important Safeguards

    4 The use of attachments not recommended or mechanical adjustment. sold by Cuisinart may cause fire, electrical shock, personal injury or damage to your Operation food processor.
  • Page 5: Introduction

    Blade USE ONLY Medium INTRODUCTION Shredding Disc Cuisinart is about to change the way you think about cooking! Your 11-cup food processor is 4mm Slicing Disc designed to do all those time-consuming food prep tasks, like chopping, mincing, mixing, slicing and shredding.
  • Page 6: The Machine Includes

    THE MACHINE INCLUDES: The medium slicing disc makes beautiful whole slices. It slices whole fruits and vegetables, 1. Housing base cooked meat, semi-frozen raw meat and thin 2. 11-cup work bowl loaves of bread. 3. Cover with extra-large feed tube The medium shredding disc processes most 4.
  • Page 7: Assembly Instructions

    ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS 8. You are now ready to operate the machine. Blade Operation MACHINE FUNCTIONS 1. Plug in the housing base and place the work PULSE bowl on top, with the work bowl handle just to 1. With the machine properly assembled the left of center.
  • Page 8: Removing Processed Food

    the texture frequently by looking through the Once it does, remove the cover first. You can cover. If you want a finer chop, press and remove the cover and pusher assembly in one release the PULSE button until you achieve operation.
  • Page 9: Chop Hard Food Like Garlic, Hard Cheese

    the ON lever and process continuously until the refrigerator. They may be frozen for months, food is puréed. (NOTE: Cooked potatoes are an stored in an airtight container or bag. exception to this procedure. They develop a gluey To chop peel from citrus fruit (zest): texture when processed with the metal blade.
  • Page 10: Make Peanut Butter, Other Butters

    nuts as fine as you want without turning them into To beat egg whites: a nut butter. The work bowl and metal blade must be You can also chop nuts with a shredding disc. The absolutely clean. Add 3 or more egg whites and optional Fine Shredding Disc is particularly good.
  • Page 11: Make Quick Cakes And Breads

    begins to form a ball, to ensure tender, flaky from the bottom of the work bowl to hold the blade pastry. Use the dough immediately or form it into in place while emptying the batter. a round disc about 1-inch thick. Wrap it in plastic Tip: wrap and refrigerate or freeze for later use.
  • Page 12: Using The Right Blade

    If a bread dough recipe calls for more than the steady stream, only as fast as dry ingredients recommended amount of flour, mix and knead it in absorb it. If liquid sloshes or splatters, stop equal batches. adding it but do not turn off machine. Wait until ingredients in bowl have mixed, then add Using the right blade: remaining liquid slowly.
  • Page 13: Shaping, Finishing And Baking

    food storage bag. Squeeze out the air and close Blade rises in work bowl: the bag, allowing space for the dough to rise. Or Blade may not have been pushed down as far as put the ball of dough in a large bowl coated with it will go before processing started.
  • Page 14: Preparing Food For Slicing And Shredding

    Motor stops: capacity of your food processor. Remove half and process in 2 batches. • If using large feed tube cover, the pusher assembly may have come unlocked. Push down • Don’t process too long after all the ingredients pusher sleeve to lock it into place and continue are incorporated.
  • Page 15: Pack Feed Tube For Desired Results

    Pack the feed tube for desired results: REMOVING SLICED OR For long slices or shreds, cut the food into feed SHREDDED FOOD tube widths and pack the pieces horizontally. Before you do anything, wait for the disc to For small, round slices or short shreds from stop spinning: carrots, zucchini and other long vegetables, cut When it does, remove the cover first.
  • Page 16: French-Cut Green Beans

    into place. Be sure the slide lock on the sleeve This technique works better with square or is locked. rectangular pieces than with round ones. Cut the food into lengths a little shorter than the Uncooked meat and poultry: feed tube. If you are slicing one or two long, thin Cut the food into pieces to fit the feed tube.
  • Page 17: Additional Information

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Type of cheese Chop Shred Slice Soft IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM Brie, Camembert, Most problems with the food processor are easily ricotta, Liederkranz, solved. Provided are some possible problems and cottage, cream their solutions. Food is unevenly chopped: mozzarella (exception) yes/chill yes Do not process too much food at one time.
  • Page 18: For Your Safety

    Keep a sponge handy as * Never use pusher assembly if sleeve becomes you work to wipe spills from the base. detached from pusher. Call Cuisinart Customer Service immediately at 1-800-726-0190. Four rubber feet under the base help keep it...
  • Page 19: Warranty

    This warranty is available to consumers only. is unlocked. You are a consumer if you own a Cuisinart ® Deluxe 11 ™...
  • Page 20 Food Processor has PRODUCT ® ™ been manufactured to strict specifications and Important: If the nonconforming product is to has been designed for use with the Cuisinart ® be serviced by someone other than Cuisinart’s Deluxe 11 ™ Food Processor accessories and Authorized Service Center, please remind the replacement parts.
  • Page 21: Recipes

    Recipes Appetizers ....22 Soups ......23 Entrées .
  • Page 22: Appetizers

    APPETIZERS Process nuts with metal blade until finely chopped, about 10 seconds. Add cream cheese and bleu cheese. Process until well mixed and smooth, about 10 seconds. (If substituting GUACAMOLE cottage cheese, process until smooth, about 90 seconds.) Serve with tortillas or crisp vegetables. Nutritional information per serving: For a less pungent taste, use flat-leaf Calories 292 (86% from fat) •...
  • Page 23: Soups

    SOUPS LEEK AND POTATO SOUP/VICHYSSOISE Louis Diat, longtime chef at the New York Ritz CHUNKY GAZPACHO Hotel, transformed the everyday Leek and Potato Soup into a cold This refreshing cold soup can be ready in soup suitable for parties. less than 10 minutes. You can serve it at once, but it improves with chilling.
  • Page 24 LENTIL SOUP SPILT PEA SOUP This hearty winter soup is a meal on its own, A perfect family lunch or supper. accompanied by crusty bread and a salad. Makes 6 cups Makes 6 cups ⁄ pound split green peas ounces lentils garlic clove garlic clove, peeled ⁄...
  • Page 25: Entrées

    ENTRÉES ⁄ teaspoons whole cumin seed tablespoons vegetable oil tablespoons chili powder tablespoons paprika MEATLOAF teaspoon salt For a spicier meat loaf, add a few drops of ⁄ teaspoon crushed red pepper Tabasco ® sauce and a teaspoon of 8-oz. can whole tomatoes Worcestershire sauce.
  • Page 26 scallions, cut to fit feed CRAB CAKES tube horizontally These delicate seafood cakes are perfect zucchini, cut to fit feed with drinks. If you’re feeling festive, substitute tube horizontally cooked lobster meat for half of the crabmeat. yellow squash, cut to fit feed tube horizontally Makes fifty-four ⁄...
  • Page 27: Sides

    SIDES Preheat oven to 400°F and butter an 8-quart baking dish. Process cheese with metal blade until it is finely grated. Reserve. With machine running, drop onion and garlic through feed tube MASHED POTATOES and process until finely chopped. Put onion/ garlic mixture in a medium saucepan with milk, The shredding disc processes cooked potatoes salt and pepper.
  • Page 28: Salads

    SLICED TOMATOES ON SHREDDED ⁄ cup parsley leaves, loosely packed LETTUCE 1-oz. piece onion, peeled ⁄ cup mayonnaise You can prepare all the elements of this ⁄ tablespoon red wine vinegar salad in the work bowl. ⁄ teaspoon salt ⁄ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Makes 6 servings ⁄...
  • Page 29: Sauces

    Process scallions with metal blade until they are NO-COOK CRANBERRY-ORANGE finely chopped. Add lemon juice, oil, salt, sugar, RELISH allspice, cinnamon, and pepper; process for about 3 seconds. Leave the dressing in the Only 1 cup of sugar sweetens 1 pound of work bowl.
  • Page 30: Breads

    BASIC MAYONNAISE melted, divided cup yellow cornmeal For a classical mayonnaise, as thick as butter, cup all-purpose flour substitute 2 egg yolks for each whole egg. tablespoons sugar ⁄ tablespoon baking powder Makes 1 ⁄ cups mayonnaise ⁄ teaspoon baking soda large egg ⁄...
  • Page 31: Desserts

    butter and salt for 20 seconds. Add ice water pulls away from sides of bowl. Add oil through to yeast mixture. feed tube and process 60 seconds longer. With machine running, pour liquid through feed If dough sticks to sides of bowl, add more flour, tube in steady stream, only as fast as flour 1 tablespoon at a time, processing 10 seconds absorbs it.
  • Page 32 Add dry ingredients and nuts. Pulse/chop until sticks very cold unsalted butter, just mixed, about 6 to 8 times. Spread in cut into 1-inch pieces prepared pan. teaspoon salt ⁄ cup ice water Bake until outside is lightly crusty and inside is still moist, about 20 minutes.
  • Page 33 cup unsalted butter, in 1-inch pieces ⁄ teaspoon baking soda ⁄ cup sugar ⁄ teaspoon salt ⁄ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed ⁄ cup raisins, steamed over boiling large eggs water for 10 minutes teaspoon vanilla extract Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows) ⁄...
  • Page 34 PEAR FROZEN YOGURT ⁄ cup light brown sugar ⁄ cup dates, cut into 1-inch pieces Makes 6 servings ⁄ cup pecans teaspoon cinnamon medium pears, peeled and cored ⁄ cup confectioners' sugar In a 2-cup liquid measure, dissolve yeast and ⁄...
  • Page 35 ⁄ teaspoon vanilla extract RASPBERRY SAUCE tablespoons all-purpose flour A fine finish for ice cream, sherbet or cake. You tablespoons unsalted butter, softened can substitute strawberries for the raspberries. Bring milk to boil in small saucepan over Makes 1 cup medium heat.
  • Page 36 Rice Cookers Grills Cookware Food Processors Cuisinart offers an extensive assortment of top quality products to make life in the kitchen easier than ever. Try some of our other countertop appliances and cookware, and Savor the Good Life ® www.cuisinart.com ©2005 Cuisinart...

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