Freezing carrots

antoniab, Jul 18, 9:02pm
Hubby has presented me with a 15kg bag of carrots from Ohakune! (and about 10kg of parsnip!) If I slice a load up to freeze do I have to blanch them before freezing! Also would grated carrot freeze ok too!

tammiraven, Jul 18, 10:36pm
some sayto blanche but you dont need to blanche carrots. Just peel (if you wish), chop, clean then stick in a bag and put in the freezer. Once they are frozen bang the bag on the worktop or the floor to loosen them up. Then you can just take out what you need. I have been freezing carrots without blanching them for years and they are perfectly fine.

grandma, Jul 19, 3:54am
I do the same with runner beans tammiraven - they taste just the same as freshly picked ones.I just cut them up and put them straight into olavini containers into the freezer, taking out what I need each night.

antoniab, Jul 19, 4:45am
Nice one - thank you :)