How To Cut Carrots

Marko Balašević Author: Marko Balašević Time for reading: ~4 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
How To Cut Carrots

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Carrots are a very popular vegetable. It is affordable, tasty, healthy and beautiful. It is not surprising that housewives actively use carrots for cooking various dishes.

 
 

How to properly cut carrots

Carrots are a very popular vegetable. It is affordable, tasty, healthy and beautiful. It is not surprising that housewives actively use carrots for cooking various dishes.

It is good both in first and second courses, in salads and as an independent garnish, it is used to decorate aspic and decorate other dishes. And for each dish, carrots are cut in a certain way. Somewhere you need to cut the carrots into circles, somewhere into slices, straws or cubes. And also carrots can be cut figured.

If the dish is prepared quickly, then we cut the carrots into small cubes, thin straws, thin circles. If the dish will be cooked for a long time, then we need to cut the carrots into slices, cubes or a large cube.

Recipes with carrots

Option 1
circles
Option 2
straws
Option 3
slices
Option 4
cubes
Option 5
figuratively
Ingredients:
  • Carrot
We will need:
  • Knife
  • Board kitchen

How to cut carrots into circles step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

 

For work, we need carrots, a kitchen board, a knife.

Step 2

 

Wash the carrots and cut off a small circle from the place where the tops are attached.

Step 3

 

Peel off a thin layer of skin and wash the carrots again.

Step 4

 

Slicing carrots into circles is suitable for soups and broths. For such purposes, you should take carrots with a small diameter. Cut the carrots into slices perpendicular to the long side of the carrot. The thickness of the circles is 1-1.5 mm.

Step 5

 

For fish soup, rich beef broths, we need larger mugs. If the carrot is small in diameter, then cut it diagonally. The thickness of the circles is 2-3 mm.

Step 6

 

Carrots are ready to go.

Ingredients:
  • Carrot
We will need:
  • Knife
  • Board kitchen

How to cut carrots into strips step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For work, we need carrots, a knife, a kitchen board.

Step 2

 

In order to cut the carrots into long strips, it is necessary to cut the peeled carrots into longitudinal plates 1-3 mm thick, depending on the situation.

Step 3

 

Fold the plates in a pile and chop into strips. Such straws are suitable for dressing soups that languish for a long time on fire, borscht, for marinades.

Step 4

 

To cut carrots into thin short strips, cut the carrots obliquely into circles 1-1.5 mm thick.

Step 5

 

Fold the circles in stacks of 3-4 pieces and chop them into strips 1-1.5 mm thick. Such a carrot shredder is suitable for filling pies, dressing quick soups, cooking caviar.

Step 6

 

Carrots are ready to go.

Ingredients:
  • Carrot
We will need:
  • Knife
  • Board kitchen

How to cut carrots into slices step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For work, we need carrots, a knife, a kitchen board.

Step 2

 

Slice carrots crosswise into 4cm pieces.

Step 3

 

Cut each piece of carrot in half lengthwise, and then cut each half lengthwise into 2 or 3 pieces.

Step 4

 

Carrots are ready to go. Such a cut of carrots is suitable for making stews, preparing a side dish, stewing with meat.

Ingredients:
  • Carrot
We will need:
  • Knife
  • Board kitchen

How to cut carrots into cubes step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

For work, we need carrots, a knife, a kitchen board.

Step 2

 

Cut the carrot into pieces 4-6 cm long.

Step 3

 

Cut each piece into parallel plates.

Step 4

 

Fold the plates in a pile and cut the carrots into strips.

Step 5

 

Fold the straw in parallel and cut it in a perpendicular direction.

Step 6

 

Carrots are ready to go. Carrots, cut into small cubes, are suitable for making soups, purees and sauces, a medium cube for stuffing pies, a large cube for baking in the oven, stewing, making stews or roasts.

Ingredients:
  • Carrot
We will need:
  • Knife
  • confectionery mold
  • Board kitchen

How to cut carrots figuratively step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

 

For work, we need a knife, carrots, a kitchen board, a metal confectionery mold for decorating dishes.

Step 2

 

In carrots, along the entire length, make 4-5 grooves 3-5 mm deep.

Step 3

 

Cut the grooves at an angle, pulling out a small triangle of pulp from the carrots.

Step 4

 

Cut carrots thinly perpendicular to the long side - you will get flowers that, after blanching, you can decorate aspic, salads, aspic.

Step 5

 

You can cut carrots into slices 1 mm thick.

Step 6

 

Put a metal mold on top and press.

Step 7

 

You will receive original stars, hearts or diamonds (depending on the appearance of the mold).

Step 8

 

Carrots are ready to go. This method of slicing carrots is suitable for decorating jelly, aspic, salads. Before decorating the dish, carrots must be blanched.

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