oodles of carrots

Karnam

noramlly i use my kid like a guinea pig and give her the last carrot or two as carrot sticks.

otherwise grate them and stick them in whatever you've got going on for dinner, curry, cottage pie, salad...

hex2

Peel some, grate them in the food processor. Into a pyrex bowl, add a little water (say 2 tbs) plus some butter and sugar. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes (edible in the microwave). Makes the cheapest nastiest carrots taste wonderful. All credit to my Mother for that one. It is the only way my children will eat carrots.

Peel them, cut in half lengthways, cut them into one inch chunks. 8 minutes in boiling salted water. Drain. Pyrex dish, add some butter and some chopped up stem ginger in syrup. Add some of the syrup too. You can use fresh ginger gated but you need to add some sugar as well. 20 mins in the oven. Very nice, specially with the ginger syrup. Can make the day before up to the 20 mins in oven stage. Sorry have never tried freezing it.

Penelope_Penguin

Try this older thread - Oodles of Carrots.

HTH, Penny. x

SoggyMoggy

Coleslaw - grate a carrot and finely chop about a quarter of a cabbage, grate in a very (VERY) small amount of onion - just a tiny bit of the juice squeezed out is enough - tablespoon or two of mayo (has to be the one starting with H for me) and a spoonful of sultanas. Don't leave it uneaten for more than 24 hours or it starts to pong the fridge out.

I also make carrot and coriander soup but don't have a recipe as it's more a case of "chuck it in the food processor and keep adding stuff till it tastes right".

itsalldrivingmemad

Hey never thought of that - digging the blender out now!!!

suep

carrot and coriander soup !

sillyvixen

prepare them as for cooking but put them in individual portions in bags and freeze. use as and when for cooking. i do this with tesco value carrots (big bags) and they taste better than frozen or tinned carrots

pavlovs_dog

i tried pureed carrot as a side with a roast dinner recently(peel, chop, cook, then blend with a splash of milk, knob of butter and a pinch of nutmeg) and it was very well received. perhaps you could try something like that?

Angelraesunshine

i make carrot salad for the kids they love it they have a large carrot each 1/2 it then slice diagonally then i tend to add cucumber and sometimes baby sweetcorn to it or if for a lunch do the above + bit more then add cooked sausage it goes down a treat.

Pink.

Hi itsalldrivingmemad,

I'm another fan of carrot and coriander soup and others have said they freeze well for another time.

I've merged your thread with the main carrot thread as it helps to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink