mouli

plural moulis

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

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

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

   3 more examples

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

   1978, Ireland of the Welcomes, volume 27, Irish Tourist Board

   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.

   2019, Susan Hurley, Eight Lives

   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).

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