oodles of carrots

sammy_kaye18

Hi All , Just a quick question today my mum brought me up two bags of carrots that she was given by my aunite because she knows i make soup etc. Anyway i have a Kg of carrots now and no idea what to do with them. I was thinking of peelign and slicing them then chucking them in the freezer - do i need to part cook them first??And what else can i do with all these carrots - dont get me wrong they will get eaten and it seems a waste to waste them but i need a few ideas please.

parsonswife8

You can slice them and then blanch them first, by dropping them into boiling water for no more then a minute, then drain the water off.
Let them cool down completely and then freeze them in plastic freezer bags.

lynzpower

make them into a carrot cake

Or a carrot soup?

Penelope_Penguin

Carrot and orange soup is lovely.

Or try this thread - Ooodles of carrots.

HTH, Penny. x

tiff

Curried carrot soup is nice.

picnic

i remember when i was at school making carrot wine that was nice.. cant remember how i made it though but is another idea for you....

Pink.

Hi sammy,

I've merged your thread with the one that Penny linked to as it helps to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

freyasmum

Hiya...

I get 22lb of carrots delivered a month. What I do is (rope in a few friends, firstly!) top and tail and peel and grate them with my processor. I then bag them up into 500g and freeze them. No pre-cooking or anything. I can then use them for soup or, my personal favourite, carrot cake.

Lx

Jolanta_Nowak

Tesco are selling huge bags of carrots for next to nothing.

So what can I do with all the excess, now that I've used half a dozen for Sunday lunch??

newlywed

Peel, chop and part boil them and freeze them for another day