Carrots are one of the most demanded in many dishes vegetable, vitamin-rich and useful substances. Help to make quickly a lunch or a dinner the carrots frozen for the future will help.
It is required to you
- - carrots;
- - knife (peeler);
- - pan;
- - freezer, fridge;
- - plastic bags (containers).
Instruction
1. At first choose carrots without decay, a mold and damage. Best of all fresh-gathered carrots of average length because absolutely small carrots don't keep aroma after defrosting are suitable for freezing and to clean it much more difficult. Don't use sluggish or already dry root crops - the advantage of them all the same won't be.
2. Then wash vegetable and clean by means of a knife or the peeler, cut off tips on both sides of carrots. Later rinse and leave on a towel or a napkin in order that it dried out from liquid.
3. Depending on in what dish you are going to use carrots, cut a root crop with various options: for borsch — cubes, for various soups — straws, for vegetable stew — roundels. Also surely grate carrots on a small and large grater to add it to fried or stewed dishes and also to use for cream soups, jelly or desserts. There are also other ways of cutting: stars, wheels, halves, quarters, etc. Besides the specified forms, cut carrots of different thickness.
4. Boil water in a big pan and place in abrupt boiled water carrots in the portions for scalding, and then shift in cold water. You keep in water about 2 minutes. After that leave a product before full cooling. Know that during scalding there is a delay of effect of enzymes which can decolorize taste and aroma of vegetable. Respectively, scalding keeps all properties of carrots.
5. Spread out the cooled carrots depending on a form in special small plastic bags or containers from which the root crop will conveniently take and add to dishes. Distribute carrots in a package evenly, let out the excess air from a package and hermetically close it. Then place in the freezer for fast freezing.
6. The carrots frozen in such a way can be stored in the fridge about 9 months in case you placed vegetables in a vacuum package, then term increases up to 14 months.
7. When using take a small portion of carrots from a package necessary to you and add to dishes. It is the best of all to use the frozen root crop when cooking, than in the raw.