This collection of Vitamix recipes is perfect for anyone who’s lucky enough to own one of these incredible machines. With all that power behind the blade it can create the silkiest soups, the most incredible sauces, turn whole spices to dust and complete all sorts of other useful culinary tasks.

Take Anna Hansen’s Wild garlic, new potato and black onion seed soup with marinated feta, for example. The soup is blended until it is completely smooth, maintaining its vibrant green colour in the process. Helen Graves uses it to make a spice rub for her Chipotle and coffee barbecued short ribs, which along with Ren Behan’s Frozen peach and rosemary margarita, are perfect for summer. You can even make pasta dough in the Vitamix – try this Sorrel fettucine with brown shrimp sauce for a seriously impressive main – or try your hand at homemade fruit curd with Galton Blackiston’s Tropical Eton mess.

Of course, you don’t have to stop there – a Vitamix can open all sorts of doors for the home cook. Browse our collection of Vitamix recipes below and get some inspiration for how to use this incredibly high-powered blender.