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Default Carrot Fries!


"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> *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.


What is the point of the cornstarch?