Baby Carrots
Chop em up and throw them into a soup or salad serve them as a side or top them with a marmalade glaze for a sweet treat.
Baby carrots. Place the carrots into a large pot and cover with salted water. After harvesting the carrots are mainly washed in chlorinated water just like our drinking water and clean ed to remove dirt and mud. Baby carrots are a healthy dish to eat alongside a meal of beef or fish or even just by themselves. For a lot of the year i can use my gardens produce when i make this cool salad.
The carrots now used to make baby cut carrots are typically ones that have been specially bred to contain more sugar than their standard sized cousins because this extra sweetness appeals. Carrots that were just picked came on a truck were washed water separated by sizewashed some more and sent through a machine that cut them to the baby carrot. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two. Put that bag of baby carrots to good use.
A baby cut carrot is a small piece cut from a larger carrot. In spring its fresh greens and radishes and in. The success of baby carrots was overwhelming. But baby carrots didnt start out that way.
Baby carrots are not as nutritious as full whole carrots because a lot of the goodness in carrots is contained in the skin and just below it. Boiling them in a pot sauteing them in a pan roasting them in the oven or even steaming them in the microwave being some options you have for whipping up a vitamin rich treat for yourself and others to enjoy. This is what i saw. Place baby carrots in 12 inch of water with butter sugar and salt.
Bring to a boil over high heat until tender about 15 minutes. Bring water to a boil cover pan and reduce heat to simmer. Cook carrots 7 or 8 minutes remove lid and raise heat to medium. Prior to the mid 1980s broken and misshaped carrots were discarded leaving some farmers with as little as 30 percent of their crop to take to stores.
By 1987 carrot consumption had increased by 30 percent. Today baby carrots consist of 70 percent of total carrot sales. This is removed in the baby carrot making process. Baby carrots arent grown.
Baby cut carrots are often marketed as baby carrots leading to potential confusion.