"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
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>> "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?
>
> It makes then crispy with minimal oil needed. Probably an optimal
> recipe for an Air fryer. I don't have one but recipes like this make
> me think it might be a good addition here.

Carrots are naturally crispy. I guess I don't get it.1