Carrot Dip ♥
Today's healthy appetizer recipe: Carrots cooked with cardamom and bay leaf, then puréed with orange syrup and yogurt. Weight Watchers zero points. Earlier this month, Lara from the beautiful Seattle food blog Cook & Eat shared recipes for some tasty vegetable dips. I could have dipped a chip into any one of Lara's dips but somehow, the simple carrot dip called to me most plaintively. It was the cooking method: chunks of carrots oven-simmered with cardamom pods and a bay leaf. Oh people, let me tell you, the scent that filled the house was heavenly ... Even with the cardamom and orange syrup and yogurt, the dip remains distinctively 'carrot', just slightly sweeter, slightly lighter, slightly ... may I say, improved? MORE VEGETABLE RECIPES ~ appetizer & snack recipes ~ ~ vegetable dips & spreads ~ ~ more carrot recipes ~ ~ one year ago this week, my recipe for Homemade Mushroom Soup ~ ~ two years ago today, Sun-Dried Tomato & Fennel Salad , the last