Cooking with JPost: Keep your veggies bright

WARNING: You may want to wear your sunglasses, because with this tip, the color of your vegetables will be out of control.

By YOCHANAN LAMBIASE
Wine consultant (photo credit: Courtesy)
Wine consultant
(photo credit: Courtesy)
Check out this awesome tip for keeping your veggies bright and colorful with Chef Yochanan Lambiase.
Things you will need:
  • 2 pots
  • carrots
  • Ice water
  • Knife

STEP ONE: Slice and dice

Slice the carrot at a 45 degree angle and after every slice, rotate the carrot 90 degrees. For all the foodies out there, this is called a rondelle cute.

STEP TWO: Slowly, but surely

Since carrots are a root vegetable, start them off in cold water, and slowly bring the water to a boil. let them cook for about 15 minutes.

STEP THREE: State of shock

Quickly remove the carrots from the bowling water and plunge them into a pot of ice cold water, in order to shock them.

FINAL PRODUCT

Warning: You may want to wear your sunglasses, because with this tip, the color of your vegetables will be out of control.

Chef Yochanan Lambiase heralds from five generations of chefs from Southern Italy. He trained under some of the most famous Michelin Star Chefs in the world. He was the founder of the Jerusalem Culinary Institute Chef Yochanan appears regularly on radio and television as well as contributing cooking articles. Now, through the videos of cooking with Jpost.com, Chef Yochanan will guide you through a tantalizing and trendy gourmet kosher experience Contact Chef Yochanan at cookingwithjpost@gmail.com for information about his exciting culinary and wine tasting tours, cooking classes, culinary happenings and out of the box culinary events. 
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