Creamy Matchstick Carrots
Recipe: #15083
October 24, 2014
Categories: Side Dishes, Carrot, Australian, Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"A really delicious and creamy side dish to serve with almost anything. An old family favourite."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (138.4 g)
- Calories 184.8
- Total Fat - 17 g
- Saturated Fat - 10.6 g
- Cholesterol - 45.4 mg
- Sodium - 402.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.9 g
- Sugars - 3.4 g
- Protein - 1.4 g
- Calcium - 44.1 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 5.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Top and tail the carrots wash, scrape and dry. Cut the carrots into matchstick strips.
Step 2
Heat the butter in a deep pan over a medium heat. Add the finely chopped onion and cook until a golden colour. Add the carrots and stir well.
Step 3
Dissolve the stock cube in 125ml hot water, add to the pan with the bay leaf.
Step 4
Reduce the heat and simmer until the carrots are tender, stirring frequently.
Step 5
Season with salt and pepper, remove bay leaf and stir in the cream just before serving.
Step 6
Garnish with extra bay leafs if desired.
Tips
No special items needed.