Baby Carrots
For a lot of the year i can use my gardens produce when i make this cool salad.
Baby carrots. 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. A baby carrot is a carrot sold at a smaller size before reaching maturity. Cook carrots 7 or 8 minutes remove lid and raise heat to medium. Today baby carrots consist of 70 percent of total carrot sales.
Baby cut carrots are often marketed as baby carrots leading to potential confusion. 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. 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. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two.
I had a tour of the bolthouse farms packaging plant last week. Place baby carrots in 12 inch of water with butter sugar and salt. But baby carrots didnt start out that way. Baby carrots are a healthy dish to eat alongside a meal of beef or fish or even just by themselves.
Baby carrots arent grown. They can be cooked in a variety of ways to suit your tastes. Put that bag of baby carrots to good use. This is removed in the baby carrot making process.
Bring to a boil over high heat until tender about 15 minutes. After harvesting the carrots are mainly washed in chlorinated water just like our drinking water and clean ed to remove dirt and mud. 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. 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.
Place the carrots into a large pot and cover with salted water. By 1987 carrot consumption had increased by 30 percent. 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. This is what i saw.
The success of baby carrots was overwhelming.