Carrots are a universal product. It is included as a main ingredient in many dishes, it can be consumed in absolutely any form, from raw to steamed. In addition, carrots are a great decoration in salads and aspic. But for each dish, carrots should be correctly and beautifully cut.
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You can, of course, get such an aggregate useful in the household as a special universal grater for carrots or an ordinary vegetable cutter. However, real chefs prefer to show their skills by slicing carrots by hand in the most bizarre ways. So, take a sharpened knife with a stiff thin blade. Wash and peel the carrots.
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Straw slicing is one of the most common methods for aesthetically chopping carrots. Cut carrots lengthwise into fairly thin plates. Then cut the carrot plates laid out in a stack diagonally, retreating only 2-3 mm. Take your time to make the straws smooth and neat. The result of the shredder will be long, thin straws, perfect for both salad and soup.
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For pilaf, carrots require a larger cut. In no case do not rub it on a grater, so it will lose its juiciness from the first minutes of cooking. Suitable as half rings of carrots with a thickness of 3 mm, and large short straws also from 3-4 mm in thickness. It should be cut according to the same principle as small straws. First, divide the carrots along, and then into strips and then already - in strips.
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For Korean Carrot Salad, the shredder must be very long. The transverse straw may be short, so the slicing method is somewhat different. First, cut the vegetable lengthwise into thin plates, then a stack of plates also lengthwise - not diagonally and not across - cut with even, not small and not large straws - 2-3 mm. After the carrots are cut according to all the "salad" rules, you can begin to prepare the "Korean dressing".
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Sometimes it is necessary to cut carrots into small cubes, for example, for pilaf in Ferghana style. This is done as follows: cut the carrots in half along. Cut again in half lengthwise. Then cut several times in half across. Get small neat little cubes.
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You can cut beautiful flowers from boiled carrots. Cut the carrots with 3 mm thick longitudinal plates. From the plate, cut an isosceles triangle. On one side of the triangle, make an incision in the form of denticles. Lay four of these triangular blanks with the teeth out. Here is a carrot flower.
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To carve an asterisk out of a carrot, cut deep grooves along the length of the carrot, and then cut into 3 mm plates.