Recipes from carrots

Carrots contain carotene( provitamin A) no less than apricots. You should know that carotene is absorbed only in the presence of fats, so grated carrots must be filled with sour cream or vegetable oil.

Carrots are rich in mineral salts. It is a dietary product and must necessarily be part of the baby food.

Fresh carrot juice improves eyesight, stimulates cell growth and division, therefore it is useful for skin diseases and ulcer diseases of the stomach and intestines, stimulates protein synthesis and is recommended for children lagging behind in physical and mental development.

Because carrots contain a large amount of iron, copper and cobalt, it stimulates the formation of blood. In addition, carrots normalize metabolism. Useful carrots for atherosclerosis, heart disease, hemorrhoids, kidney stone disease.

Carrot salad with horseradish and apples

For one apple 2 carrots, a small horseradish root, sugar, salt and citric acid to taste, sour cream for refueling.

Horseradish clean and grate on a fine grater, add salt, sugar and citric acid to taste( or take 1-2 tablespoons of prepared horseradish).Peel apples from the peel and seed boxes, grate on a large grater. Peel carrots, grate on a large grater. Mix everything, season with sour cream.

"Artistic" salad

2 antonian apple, 2 root carrots, 2 cloves garlic, 150 g cheese, mayonnaise for refueling.

All grate on a large grater, chop garlic, mix and season with mayonnaise.

Carrot caviar

1 kg carrots, 250 g onion, a glass of tomato paste, water, vegetable oil, vinegar, salt and sugar to taste, 3-4 peas of black pepper, 2 bay leaves.

Clean and chop the carrots, lightly fry in vegetable oil, put them in a deep frying pan. Dilute the tomato paste with water and pour into carrots, adding vinegar, salt, sugar, pepper and bay leaf, and put it out on a small fire.

Shred onion and fry in vegetable oil, add to carrots. To extinguish to the full readiness, at the very end to pour in vegetable oil and a little more put out.

Cool, place on cans, put in refrigerator.

If you spread the caviar in hot form on sterile cans, immediately roll up and cool under the blanket, then the caviar can be used in winter.

Serve as a garnish in both hot and cold. You can make it a "coat" for boiled and boneless fish.

Vegetarian pilaf

1 cup of rice, 2 carrots, 2-3 peas of black pepper, bay leaf, 2 cloves of garlic, 3-4 tablespoons.spoons of refined vegetable oil.

Rice is well washed, discarded in a colander, letting water drain. In the pan, heat the vegetable oil to boiling and pour out the rice. Fry, stirring constantly, until the grains are transparent.

Shred the carrots on a large grater and put them in the pilaf, mix, salt to taste, add a little water, cover and put the rice down until it is ready( it should be crumbly, but not boiled).

Finely chop the garlic( or pass through the garlick), add to the pilaf. Remove it from the heat and let stand for 3-4 minutes under the lid.