Carrot scraps. Your ideas

Place I used to work at made a tasty carrot puree side with butter and a little caraway. They cooked the carrots with OJ.

You can make puffs with carrot puree and tapioca starch or IIRC rice flour.

Dessert side there is this:

http://blogquat.blogspot.com/2010/10/recipe-carrot-spice-tower.html

In India they make puddings/fudges by cooking down carrots with milk and sugar and green cardoman.

All of the above are very good. Literally there ar hundreds of ways to use, all good and  naturally cost effective. I have been in places where the skins of potatoes are deep fried and sprinkled with Bar.B Q spice or s&p  and used in employees cafeteria. Try it they are not bad.

Carrot cake!!  Also throw in as mirepoix.  Use in a bolognese.  Make into a slaw.  Throw into a sweet potato puree.

On a more serious note, I've always wondered how those creepy little baby carrots in a bag have come to be. 

KK,

From its early start to the finished product.

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/the-odd-evolution-of-the-baby-carrot.html

There is a reason why they cost more...just to be pleasing to the eye.

Stock Pot

carrot chipotle syrup

Cook, puree, and make a carrot custard.  If you have other scraps you can layer it, like brocolli, carrot, cauliflower.

Carrot coulis

Carrot Puree soup , also known as Potage Crecy

Dehydrated carrot flakes

If  you take regular carrots cut them into 1 inch pieces and put in a  standard electric commercial potato peeling machine they will come out like the belgian style carrot in the bag at 1/3 the price.

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Originally Posted by petalsandcoco 

KK,

 

From its early start to the finished product.

 

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/the-odd-evolution-of-the-baby-carrot.html

 

There is a reason why they cost more...just to be pleasing to the eye.

Great info thanks!  I'm still at odds about it.  On one hand I'm glad those knobbly carrots are being put to use.  On the other hand, I refuse to pay so much money for something that I can do at home at a fraction of the cost.  My husband hates those things and wouldn't want them in the house.  I'm in the mood for carrots with my hummus right now.

Real baby carrots come with a stem and are served with same. These plastic bag things are regular carrots cut or as we used to call them like Turned carrots.

Yes, and what I love about this time of year are baby carrots in various colors. Love them roasted.

There's absolutely no comparison between carrot fingers in a bag and a real baby carrot.  I have to go to the farmers market very early though to get them because they run out so fast.  Most of the time I come home empty handed.

The fall    Blue potatoes, purple carrots, red celery, mini squash, patti pan squash.. All great on plate