Sauce, Dips, Spread in ramekins |
This is something I often do when I have not had the time to use the
vegetables purchased in my monthly shopping.
Can you tell I have raided the fridge? |
Using vegetables this way is great because it give them almost a
second life and the bins are starved!
· 500g carrots
· 100 onion
· 10g spring onion
· 1 pepper (optional)
· 6 spoons vegetable oil
· 1 fresh tomato
· Salt & Herbes de Provences
Method:
Just peel rinse and chop everything. Place the onion, pepper, carrots,
spring onion and tomato in a blender with just about 10 ml of water. Blend
until very fine. But not liquid. Like on the photo.
In a sauce pan, heat about 6 tablespoons of oil, carefully empty the
content of the blender in the pan, add salt and Herbes de Provences. Stir and cover
the pan so the ingredients would cook though for 5-7 minutes. That is the first
stage.
blended ingredients |
The mix can also be used as a dip on a platter. If this is the way it
is intended to be used, add Alpro single cream, leave to cook for another 2-3
minutes. Leave to cool before serving. Mine here is served with homemade crisps
(recipe of crisps in the next post).
The one with the cream |
If it is going to be used for pan fired red meats or warm dishes, instead
of using cream, use mustard oil or any other spiced oil then spread on the meat
either before serving or before frying.
If using it as a sauce, first fry some chopped onions before adding the
content of the blender. Leave to simmer and dry completely before adding 100 ml
of vegan stock and cook down to the constitution wanted. Here the carrot are
used on a salad served with a warm steak Hache (mince beef steak).
The one with mustard oil |
The spread |
End of January sandwich all leftovers #skint |
Skint? make your own (burnt) crisps
Used in a main meal - see last week's post
Voila! Now go create and send me
pics of what your have done with your old carrots!
Here is the collection: Carrots dip, spread, sauce…
Tip: if your carrots are shrivelled up and wrinkled, soak into fresh
water to rehydrate. After an hour, the will look plumb and revived!
C Ya next time!
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