Please help me use up Ingredient X.
Posted by Heliamphora on Feb 13, 2009 · Member since Oct 2006 · 4798 posts
Ahoy folks! I thought I'd start a thread where you can ask for recipes and advice on how to use up an ingredient (e.g. a vegetable, fruit, grain, bean, etc.) of which you have lots and lots and lots; or which is new to you and you don't know where to start with it.
I'll go first. :P I have many, many tasty carrots from the farmers' market which I need to use before they go soft.
Recipes, please.
I know, I know, carrots - simple - should be a no-brainer... but I was not fond of them for a long time, simply because I'd never known anything but raw or steamed carrots with very little flavour. I like to do INTERESTING things with them. They're so adaptable! Gimme your adaptations! :D
Remember to wash it in a sieve under the tap before you cook it, otherwise it will taste kind of soapy. I just cook it like rice...and use it like rice, with curries or whatever. There are several recipes for quinoa on here.
For okra, you could try Manisha's recipe for Okra Kichadi: http://www.indianfoodrocks.com/2007/03/amminis-okra-kichadi.html
If you are vegan I bet soy yogurt would work for the sauce.
IFR is a great resource; all the recipes I have made from it work and are delicious!!
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