Dried carrots are very convenient. It can be used for first courses, desserts, baked goods and more. Depending on what the workpiece is planned for, it is prepared in various ways. This review focuses on carrots chipped in thin strips.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Carrots are an indispensable vegetable for normalizing digestion, preventing ARVI, an excellent antiseptic that reduces the risk of cancer and premature skin aging. The vegetable contains almost all the substances that our body needs. Therefore, the answer to the question “to stock up on it for the winter or not to stock it”, the answer is obvious - necessarily “yes”. The root crop can be prepared in several ways: freeze, preserve and dry. In this review, we will learn how to prepare it using the last method.
Properly dried carrot roots retain both color and fresh smell. If you have a jar of dried carrots on your shelf, then the preparatory work for making culinary masterpieces is significantly reduced. Once in soup, meat stew, dough, etc., the carrot strips straighten out and take on their original appearance. Dried carrot flakes or rings can be viewed as diet chips that can be consumed just like that. In addition, all vitamins and minerals are preserved in dried vegetables, and fresh root crops lose part of their "strategic reserve" by spring. Another pleasant moment - the calorie content of dry carrot slices is much lower than that of a fresh vegetable, while the taste is quite pleasant.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 219 kcal.
- Servings - 100 g
- Cooking time - 15 minutes for prep work, 2 hours for drying
Ingredients:
Carrots - 2 pcs. (big size)
How to cook dried carrots:
1. Wash the carrots well under running water and pat dry with a paper towel.
2. Peel the root crop with a special knife for peeling vegetables. Such a knife allows you to cut off the peel minimally, leaving more vegetable pulp.
3. Grate the carrots. Use a food processor or Korean carrot grater to keep the straws nice, thin and long.
4. Place the carrot shavings on a baking sheet in an even layer. Heat the oven to 80 degrees and send the root vegetable to dry. At the same time, keep the chamber door slightly ajar to allow air circulation. You can also dry a vegetable naturally, leave it in an apartment in a dry place and after 1-2 days it will dry out. Well, of course, you can take advantage of the sun's rays.
5. For any drying method, turn the carvins several times to dry evenly. Store dried carrots in a glass container under a lid in a dry place.
See also a video recipe on how to cook dried carrots.
