Delectable Carrot Dip

Ingredients

• 1 small onion, halved
• 100g organic butter, cubed
• 250g carrot, peeled, roughly chopped
• 100g tomato paste
• 1 tbsp fresh oregano or 1 tsp dried oregano or Italian herbs
• 1 tbsp fresh thyme, leaves only, or 1 tsp dried thyme
• ½ tsp Himalayan pink or Celtic sea salt
• freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Method

1. Place onion into TM bowl and chop 3 seconds, speed 5.
2. Add 20g of butter and sauté 1 minute 30 seconds, varoma, speed 1.
3. Place carrot into TM bowl and chop 5 seconds, speed 5.
4. Add remaining butter, tomato paste, herbs, salt and pepper and cook for 7 minutes, 90ºC, speed 2.
5. Blitz dip 30 seconds, slowly increasing dial to speed 10.
6. When dip has cooled, serve with veggie sticks, crackers or use as a bread spread and top with tomato or cucumber slices. Keep in refrigerator if it doesn’t get devoured straight away 🙂

Bon appetit 

Conventional Method

1. Finely dice onion.
2. Place onion into a medium frying pan and add 20g of butter, sauté for 2-3 minutes.
3. Grate the carrot, on a course vegetable grater.
4. Add the grated carrots to frying pan, along with remaining butter, tomato paste, herbs, salt and pepper and cook on a medium heat till carrot is cooked down, 10-12 minutes. Then take off heat.
5. Transfer mixture to a glass bowl or pyrex jug and blitz with a hand held mixer or place mixture into food processor and process till a smooth consistency is desired.
6. When dip has cooled, serve with veggie sticks, crackers or use as a bread spread and top with tomato or cucumber slices. Keep in refrigerator if it doesn’t get devoured straight away.

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