Carrots: 8 dishes from the main to the dessert

We've learned that the carrot - it is rather a supplement to the basic composition of ingredients in different dishes, but not them. And, incidentally, it is not so: carrots can be a key ingredient in many dishes, both basic and eateries, and even dessert.

Soups, side dishes, main dishes, snacks and even a selection of pastries: cakes, pies, cakes, muffins, cakes - all this can be prepared using as a main ingredient carrots. In this article we describe the preparation of various dishes from carrots.

Carrots are known to be very useful vegetable: it contains a lot of valuable substances (carotene, lycopene, phytofluene, pantothenic, ascorbic acid, flavonoids, vitamins B, E, C, K, PP, minerals - iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus etc.). With regular consumption, it improves vision, digestive tract, providing prevention of cancer and heart disease, prevents the development of diabetes, stroke, improves the condition of the liver, skin, intestine and stomach.

Our ancestors use carrots in food since time immemorial. It is known that ate it by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Considered for the first time began to reclaim the wild carrot in Afghanistan, where we can see the greatest number of its species. It is interesting that initially this root crop grown for its aromatic leaves and seeds! In Europe, carrots became popular in the 10-13th centuries, where it was brought from other countries. In 16veke carrot has been described in "Domostroi".

Modern orange carrot was bred only 17veka Dutch breeders!

Recipes of dishes from carrots

As already noted, the number of dishes that can be prepared using carrots as the main ingredient - just great! We focus on the simplest and most interesting of them.

First recipe: Carrot soup

You will need: 700g carrots, chicken stock 500ml, 200ml cream 20-22%, 70g fennel, 40ml olive oil 4 cloves garlic, 1 onion, 1 tsp salt.

How to cook soup from carrots. Onions and fennel peeled, cut into 4 pieces, peel carrots, coarsely chopped, add water so that it only covers it and boil until soft. Fry in a little oil the onion, fennel and garlic cloves, put in a pot when carrot softens. Hand blender pyurirovat soup first on a slow, then at maximum speed, pour the broth, stir. Pour the cream into the soup, stir and bring to a boil and immediately remove the soup from heat.

Always try to add a dish of carrot cream, butter or milk - because it contains nutrients better absorbed.

Second recipe: baked carrot garnish

You will need: 500g carrots, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 tsp cumin, 1 tablespoon honey? tsp nutmeg, and salt.

How to cook a side dish of carrots. Cut the carrots into cubes large, put in boiling salted water, boil for 3 minutes, drain the water and put it in the form of carrots and sprinkle with nutmeg, cumin and salt. Drizzle with butter and honey carrots and mix. Cook in the oven for mode "Grill" at 200gradusah in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

This carrot is perfect for fish, meat, poultry, or it can simply eat as a snack.

By the way, a snack of carrots can be cooked too varied: canapes, salads, hors d'oeuvres will be excellent and very simply pickled carrots.

Recipe Three: Pickled carrots

You will need: 500g carrots, vinegar 125ml by 3%, dry white wine and water, 1 bay leaf, 1 clove garlic, 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 sprig of dill, savory and / or parsley, 1 tsp mustard on? tsp sugar, salt, red pepper.

How to marinate carrots. Carrots peeled, cut into pieces no more than 2 cm thick. For the marinade mix the vinegar in a pan with wine, water and butter, add sugar and salt, add the garlic, passed through the press, laurel, dill, parsley, pepper, and over high heat bring to a boil. Put in marinade carrots, cook it until soft light, get out of the marinade. In putting mustard marinade, stir, pour the carrots and 2-3 days to leave it in the refrigerator to marinate.

Recipe Four: carrot salad with cheese

You will need: 70g cheese sausage fused, 4 carrots average, 3-4 tablespoons canned corn, 1 tbsp mayonnaise, herbs to taste.

How to prepare a salad of carrots and cheese. Boil the carrots until tender, peel, cut into cubes to 0.5 cm. Rub on a coarse grater cheese, put it away in the freezer in advance. Connect corn, cheese, carrots, stir, add the greens and also mayonnaise. Hour before serving the salad stand in the refrigerator.

For this recipe you can use any other, but always soft cheese.

Recipe fifth: Snack-canape carrot

You will need: 50g of cheese, 2 carrots medium, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 tsp vinegar,? tsp pepper, a pinch of sugar, salt, olives for decoration.

How to cook a snack of carrots, canapes. Long stripes, very thin slice of cheese. On a fine grater rub the carrot, connect with crushed garlic, vinegar, spices, butter, mash your hands, leave for 10 minutes. Put 1 tsp on each strip of cheese, roll it roll, each roll strung on skewers with olives.

Do you want to cook with carrot cakes? It is also quite easy and fast.

Sixth recipe: Carrot Fritters

Need: 250ml warm water 200g flour 1 carrot average, 1-2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp dried yeast, salt, vegetable oil.

How to cook carrot muffins. Sift and mix with sugar, flour, add yeast and salt and gradually pour warm water, kneading the dough. Cover it and leave for an hour in the heat to rise. Clear carrots, rubbed on a fine grater, stir in the risen dough. Pan heat, add butter, spread a tablespoon of dough and fry pancakes on both sides until light golden brown. Upload finished pancakes on paper towels. Sprinkle with sugar, if desired, or powdered sugar.

How to impress friends, that this can be made from carrots? It's very simple: make a carrot and walnut cakes.

Seventh recipe: Carrot and walnut cakes

You will need: 700g flour 150g shelled walnuts, 100g of butter, 20g of butter, 4 medium carrots, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk 3-4 tablespoons honey 2 tsp Trembling and dry sugar, ground cinnamon, and sugar.

How to cook cakes with carrots. Two-thirds of Sift flour, make a hole in the center, to drive 2 eggs, a thin stream, stirring, pour in the milk, add 1 tsp salt, yeast and sugar mix. Add the melted butter in the form of heat, knead the dough uncool, roll it into a ball and leave in a warm, covered, until the rise, punched 2-3 times, each time after that letting the dough rise again. Divide the dough into equal pieces, roll out each ball a little more than the size of a walnut, for 20 minutes to leave the proofer, cover with a cloth, roll out each ball into a pancake. Grate the carrots on a fine grater, until tender put out in butter, adding water if necessary, put honey and ground nuts, stir and remove from heat, season with cinnamon and sugar. 1-2 tsp toppings to put on each cake edges connect, zaschipnut molded cakes. Lay them on a baking sheet, powdery flour, lightly coat with beaten egg yolk surface, leave for 15 minutes. Bake in preheated oven 200gradusov. Allow to cool on the grill, sprinkle with water and cover with a cloth.

Eighth recipe: Carrot cake

You will need: 300g for butter, carrots and sugar 170g flour 100g walnuts and almonds, baking powder 6g, 5 eggs, 2-3 cloves buds, 1 box of cardamom and a pinch of nutmeg? lemon (zest and juice) for? tsp cinnamon, salt and ground ginger.

How to cook carrot cake. On a medium grater rubbed carrots, chop into large crumbs nuts, sift the flour, mix with salt and baking powder. Softened butter, grind it with sugar to the air. Separate the egg yolks from the whites, egg yolks one at a time to drive to the butter and sugar, add the zest and lemon juice gradually, stirring, pour the flour. Grains of cardamom clear of wings, grind them in a mortar with buds cloves, stir the mixture with other spices, pour into a bowl to the test, add nuts, carrots, stir. In stable foam Beat the whites, add to them a quarter of the dough, mix the bottom up, stir this mixture into the rest of the dough. Cover the cake pan with parchment, put the dough, flatten, bake the cake in a preheated 180 degrees oven for 50-60min. Check the readiness of a toothpick - it should come out of the cake dry and clean. After baking the cake in the form of leave on 10 minutes, and then get out of shape, put on the grill and leave for an hour.

Dish with carrots - always very useful and tasty. Try to cook any of the offered in this collection and see it!