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Meaning of mouli | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food.

Examples

“Certain fruits must be sieved or put through a mouli to get out the skins and pips.”
“Some moulis come with a selection of fine, medium or coarse discs.”
“He'd won her over by not only fronting to her annual making-of-the-tomato-sauce day, but also hand-cranking almost two hundred kilos of tomatoes through the moulis.”
“I then get out my trusty mouli and run the whole lot through it (my lovely friend and clever cooking teacher, Paola Bacchia, tells me Italians call a mouli, a 'passatutto', which sounds so much more lyrical to me).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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