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The meat carrot that challenges vegetarian burgers – Italian Cuisine

Vegetable burgers and sausages, you officially have an enemy: here comes Marrot, a carrot made of meat

"If they can make vegetable burgers and other things, then we can make meat vegetables."

Thus begins the video that presents the first carrot in the world made of meat: here you are The Marrot, whose name is just a cross between meat (meat) e carrot (carrot). Designed by the American fast food chain Arby's, Marrot looks just like a classic carrot, but is actually made of turkey.

How to prepare meat carrot?

More precisely, it is chest of turkey chopped, shaped like a carrot and boiled. To obtain the orange color of the carrots, it is sprinkled with dried carrot powder and finally, it is roasted in the oven for an hour. The final touch: Marrot is impaled on the top with a sprig of parsley, so as to get something like the stem of the carrot.

A joke? A hoax against vegetarians and vegans? We do not yet know what the purpose of this campaign is, but in the meantime Arby's says that this meat carrot would bring about 70% of the daily requirement of vitamin A, the same vitamin that is found in real carrots. It also appears that this is only the first episode of megetables, or meat dishes disguised as vegetables. All that remains is to watch.

For now it is not yet for sale, but you can also try to prepare the meat carrot at home, following the step by step recipe in the video below.

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Carrot cake: let's do it different! – Italian Cuisine

Sweet and fluffy, the carrot cake makes everyone agree. Here's how to propose it in different tasty versions (from coffee to cream cheese)

Spring, want to outdoor snacks in the park, of picnic with the family Sunday, of breakfast on the veranda. And what is it that goes perfectly with all these situations? There Carrots pie! Soft, naturally sweet, in a word delicious, carrot cake is simple to make, and above all it appeals to adults, but above all to children, palates more complicated to satisfy. And then, the protagonist is the carrot, ubiquitous vegetable on our tables, but typical of the summer: in addition to the famous ones tanning properties, thanks to the beta-carotene reserves, is also rich in vitamins and fiber, able to rebalance the intestinal flora.
However, there is not a single carrot cake, but a multitude of variants: to the basic recipe you can add dried fruit, but also delicious creams. Don't believe it? Read below!

Carrot cake: basic recipe

To cook the carrot cake, it is obviously necessary carrots, but also type 00 flour, almonds and hazelnuts, as well as eggs and sugar. Start this way: after having mounted the egg yolks in foam, combining them with the sugar, peel the carrots and grate them, mixing the mixture obtained with the beaten egg yolks, and the almond and hazelnut flours. At this point, add the whipped egg whites and finally the 00 flour and starch, taking care to mix from the bottom upwards, so as to incorporate more air into the mixture, to make it softer. Pour everything into a hinged mold that you have already buttered and baked for 50 minutes at 180 degrees. Here's your carrot cake. Now you can enjoy the variations!

Carrots and nuts cake

The hazelnuts they marry perfectly with carrots. In addition to using hazelnut flour, hazelnuts can also be added, reduced to grains, when it is time to add the egg whites. You will get a soft dough, but with a crunchy note. This version is usually very popular with children.

Carrot cake with pea ice cream

Do you want a fresh and curious dessert, perfect for the warm season? Propose this carrot cake in a gourmet way. After removing the basic carrot cake, trim the edges with a ring to obtain a circumference of 19 cm in diameter. Do not remove the ring, but keep it as a levee, to distribute previously prepared pea ice cream on the surface. Such as? Just boil the peas in milk for 10 minutes with 60 g of water, a vanilla pod and sugar. Once boiled, whisk them, strain them, add the cream and pour into the ice cream maker.

Carrot cake with cheese cream

Here the highlight is the cheese cream, with which to garnish the carrot cake. How to get it? Get some spreadable cheese, to mix with icing sugar and lemon juice. Then, use it to decorate the cake. A simple but effective dessert.

Coffee carrot cake

The coffee, slightly bitter, creates a nice contrast with the sweetness of carrots. Also in this case, following the basic recipe, the trick is to add the secret ingredient – or coffee – before the egg-whites beaten. Attention, however, to the quantity and type: they are 4 bags of freeze-dried coffee.

Carrot and yogurt cake

The yogurt has the ability to make the dough even softer and more delicate, if possible. After mixing egg yolks and sugar, add the yogurt, then the carrot puree, egg whites and all the other ingredients. After taking it out of the oven, let it cool and serve it in slices, with a knob of whipped cream: your children will love it!

Recipe Dentice on carrot sauce with watercress – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

700 g 2 large slices of snapper
4 pcs carrots
200 g watercress
15 pcs peeled hazelnuts
1 pcs shallots
1 pc lemon
1 pc clove of garlic
vegetable broth
butter
extra virgin olive oil
salt

Duration: 1 h 15 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of snapper on carrot sauce with watercress, peel the carrots and cut them into pieces. Cut the shallot into slices and brown it in a pan with 30 g of butter for 2-3 minutes, then add the carrots and the lemon juice and let simmer for 1 hour, wetting occasionally with 1 ladle of vegetable broth. Blend everything.
FOR THE FISH AND THE CONTOUR: Break the hazelnuts and toast them in the pan for a couple of minutes. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil and 1 small knob of butter in a pan with 1 clove of crushed garlic with the peel; cook the fish steaks on the flesh side for 5 minutes; turn them over and continue cooking for another 5 minutes, then transfer them to a baking sheet lined with baking paper, salt them lightly and cook them at 180 ° C for another 5 minutes. Spread the carrot cream on the plates, place the slices of snapper on top, complete with the toasted hazelnuts and serve with the cress seasoned with oil and salt.