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Help! Carrot baton mountain
I collected about 15 packs of carrot batons in my evening Olio, and cannot distribute them because they are "use by". What genius ways have you got to cook, preserve, serve, use carrot batons so I can get them all processed into something or other tomorrow?!
Thanks for any thoughts you can provide!
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Carrot and coriander soup. And freeze it in portions.
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Carrot cake, carrot purée.
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Carrot and orange soup.
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Carrot Hummus. Freeze in pots for future use.
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Buy a swede and cook for carrot and swede mash and freeze for future roasts or as a base for bubble and squeek?
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Blanche some and freeze as batons for roast dinners.
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mash it, portion up and pop in the freezer. i ended up with 15 loaves of bread through olio recently, so i breadcrumbed the lot and froze!! anyone that comes to visit now gets a farewell bag of breadcrumbs!
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You can always blanch and freeze some of the packets for later. Do you have a metal colander? Boil a saucepan of water, put the buttons into the colander and dunk it in the boiling water for 10 seconds. Scatter onto a tray to dry and then freeze once the steam stops.
Use some of the batons in a stir fry. Also, try making Carrot & Cashew Nut Roast (which can be frozen uncooked). Mine is a version of a Rose Elliott recipe (hers is Carrot & Hazelnut), but there are plenty of recipes available on the internet that can be adapted. (In the food-processor combine 2 large carrots, 150-200g nuts, 2-3 slices of bread, a teaspoon of soy sauce, 1 teaspoonful of mixed herbs, and 1 egg. Blend until smooth-ish. Bake in a loaf pan for 45-50 minutes at 200c.)
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I do this (also with parsnip) and add to mashed potatoes for shepherds pie.
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:D that is very similar to the kinds of things I do!
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