On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:00:35 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Well friends, like always I start cooking by looking in the veggie bin!
>Since Charlotte is still trimming, this one came over as 'I haven't had
>fries in ages!'
>
>Now tomorrow is a freebee diet day as we celebrate Saint Patrick and
>that means 'Daddy Fries' but she wanted something for other times.
>
>Take carrots and cut lengthwise then placing the flat part down, cut to
>fries (shoestring type cut works best here). You want enough for each
>person to have 1 cup of carrot fries. Carrots are 52 calories a cup.
>Potatoes are 105.

sounds interesting

>
>Dust the carrot pieces with 1/4 TB cornstarch per cup of cut carrots
>then sprinkle with spices. We liked a sweet paprika and a whisky smoked
>black pepper. Cornstarch is 30 calories per TB or 7.5 per 1/4 TB.
>
>Drizzle 1/2 TB olive oil per cup of carrots and mix well. Olive oil is
>variable by brand but the one on my counter says 120 per TB (15ML) so
>60 calories used per cup of fries.
>
>I had just finished baking bread at 400F so added these in a single
>layer and flipped them 10 minutes later and they were done in about
>another 10 minutes.

I think I will give it a go in an air fryer... there will be no need
to flip
>
>Calories per cup: 52+7.5+60=119.5 (call it 120, or 60 per 1/2 cup
>serving size). Sodium negligible. Cost estimate hard to define because
>of spice versions and that cornstarch lasts forever so can't recall the
>price. A swag would be 20cents per cup?
>
>Provided that carrots do not spike BG's in your case, this is Vegan,
>Vegetarian, diabetic acceptable, low sodium, and while not classic
>low-fat does fit in a low fat diet.

Using McCormick spices it should be gluten free as well, although I
would take out the fancy smancy pepper you are using and just use
black pepper...
Unless you want to spice it up a bit then use lee kum kee sriracha
sauce... a dab will do ya..

>
>*classic low-fat can be odd. Often they required each dish not have
>more than a percentage of the calories from fats. Because of the olive
>oil, this one fails the classic test with more than 10% from fats.

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