Carrot Filling for Sweet Pastries
A wonderful filling for sweet pastries! It's incredibly easy to make. The ingredients are simple, you only need a little of each, and the result is delicious. This amount makes enough filling for one pie or 12-15 hand pies. When I was a kid there were no Snickers or Mars bars, but there was condensed milk, toffee, and my mom's yeast pies — meat, cabbage, and sweet ones. Most often they were pies with a carrot filling. For some reason I never made them for my own child; I only just found the recipe in an old cookbook. Give it a try, it's really tasty!
By the way, there are a few ways to make a sweet carrot filling. In one, the carrots are first boiled whole, then peeled, run through a meat grinder, and mixed with sugar. But it seems to me that this way the good nutrients from the carrots leach into the water, which we then just pour out. I'd rather keep at least some of the goodness in the carrots, so I do it differently.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Ingredients
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Step 2:
Take a couple of large carrots, wash them well, and peel them with a vegetable peeler.
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Step 3:
Grate the carrots on the coarse side of a box grater.
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Step 4:
Transfer them to a small saucepan. I like using ceramic-coated pans, since food doesn't stick or burn in them. Sprinkle the carrots with sugar, add just 1-2 tablespoons of water, and let them simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.
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Step 5:
In that time the carrots will turn soft without cooking down to mush. Add only a little water, since the carrots will release their own juice. As they simmer, the excess moisture cooks off and the carrots come out very tender. Stir the butter into the finished carrots and let cool to room temperature.
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Step 6:
Now the filling is ready to use for baking.
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Step 7:
We made a batch of hand pies and were very happy with them.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
