Carrots are added to soups and salads, side dishes and fillings for pies are prepared from them, juice is squeezed out and baby puree is whipped. Experienced housewives even make carrot cakes, which are very popular with figure-watching sweet tooth. But before you start culinary experiments with the participation of a delicious root vegetable, it must be cleaned, spending as little effort and nerves as possible on this process.
It is necessary
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- vegetable knife;
- potato peeler;
- hard brush;
- wire sponge.
Instructions
Step 1
Wash the carrots well before cleaning. If it is particularly dirty, you can soak the root vegetables in cold water. The same should be done with a sluggish vegetable - cold water will partly return the carrots to their former juiciness.
Step 2
Young root vegetables do not need to be peeled. Go over them with a stiff brush, remove darkened areas and tops, cut off the top of the carrot, which has a greenish tint. Scrape it lightly with a knife, getting rid of the remnants of thin white roots, rinse under running water. The vegetable is ready for cooking.
Step 3
It is better to free the larger and already slightly lying carrots from the upper skin - over time it becomes coarser. Take a sharp knife for peeling vegetables and start scraping the root vegetable, moving from tip to top. Remove all stains, damage, tarnished areas. The disadvantage of this method is the large amount of debris that accompanies cleaning. In addition, processing a significant amount of carrots will take a long time.
Step 4
Try another option - use a potato peeler. This appliance with two safety blades attached to a long handle cuts thin long skin and can handle even slightly wilted soft root vegetables. Use a sharp corner of the tool to clean out damage. Such cleaning allows you to save energy and not spoil your manicure.
Step 5
If you don't have a potato knife on hand, take a hard metal washcloth. Rub the carrots thoroughly on all sides. The washcloth will remove a thin layer of the upper skin and wipe away the smallest particles of dirt. It is best to clean with gloves so that the wire does not damage your hands.
Step 6
Carrots intended for feeding babies need to be especially carefully processed. Choose the freshest, undamaged copies. Peel them with a knife, removing the top layer of the skin, cut off the tip and top of the vegetable, rinse it in running water and pour over boiling water. After that, you can start cooking carrots and cooking vegetable puree.
