From a morning visit to a local market to buy the freshest vegetables and herbs to pounding green curry paste in a mortar and pestle to making mango sticky rice, my foodie family couldn’t be happier.—Tanvi Chheda, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2024 Using a molcajete or mortar and pestle, grind the bones to a fine paste, then add them to the chochoyotes dough in step 6.—Obed Vallejo, Saveur, 28 Mar. 2024 Saadat, who is of Persian heritage, has a dedicated brass mortar and pestle to finely grind saffron and a Japanese suribachi for crushing cardamom.—Naz Deravian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024 The process involves sourcing readily available ingredients, such as plants, tree sap, or stone, which are then burned to soot, melted, or ground into powders with a mortar and pestle.—Zahra Hankir, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pestle
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English pestel, from Anglo-French, from Latin pistillum, from pinsere to pound, crush; akin to Greek ptissein to crush, Sanskrit pinaṣṭi he pounds
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