mouli

English

Noun

mouli (plural moulis)

1. A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food.
   • 1978, Ireland of the Welcomes, volume 27, Irish Tourist Board:

     Certain fruits must be sieved or put through a mouli to get out the skins and pips.

   • 2014, Tracklements Savoury Preserves: Traditional, handmade accompaniments for meat, cheese or fish:

     Some moulis come with a selection of fine, medium or coarse discs.

   • 2019, Susan Hurley, Eight Lives:

     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.

   • 2021, Belinda Jeffery, A Year of Sundays: A cookbook, a conversation, and reflections on the world around me:

     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).