Festive Carrot Souffle Food

FRESH CARROT SOUFFLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large pot of boiling water, cook the carrots until very tender. Drain, and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• While carrots are warm, use an electric mixer to beat with sugar, baking powder, and vanilla extract until smooth. Mix in the flour, eggs, and margarine. Transfer to a 2 quart baking dish.
• Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until top is golden brown. Sprinkle lightly with confectioners' sugar before serving.

CARROT SOUFFLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Butter well and chill 8 1 1/4-cup souffle dishes.
• Boil carrots in salted water until soft. Drain well.
• Place carrots in food processor or blender with ricotta, cumin, dill, salt and pepper. Puree well. You should have about 3 cups. Transfer to mixing bowl.
• Add yolks to mixture and blend well with wire whisk. In another bowl whisk whites until they form soft peaks. Fold 1/4 of whites into carrot mixture, then remainder. Taste for seasoning.
• Place souffle dishes on baking sheet and fill to rim with mixture. Before placing in oven run thumb around rim of each to remove any overflow, which could cling and prevent souffle from rising fully. Bake for approximately 10 minutes.

SAM BEALL'S CARROT SOUFFLé

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 2-quart soufflé dish or baking dish.
• Put the carrots in a large pot and cover with about an inch of water. Add a heaping tablespoon of salt and boil the carrots until they are tender enough to yield to the tip of a knife, about 10 minutes.
• Strain the carrots and purée them in a food processor. Put them in a large bowl; stir in the milk, cracker crumbs, cheese, onion, butter, cayenne, black pepper and remaining salt.
• In another bowl, beat the eggs until they are quite foamy. Using a whisk and a gentle touch, mix the eggs into the carrot mixture.
• Scrape the mixture into the buttered dish and bake for about 45 minutes, until the soufflé is slightly puffed, light golden brown and pulling away from the sides of the dish. Serve warm.

FESTIVE CARROT RING

Steps:

• Place a steamer insert into a saucepan, and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Cover, and bring the water to a boil over high heat. Add the carrots, recover, and steam until very tender, about 15 minutes. Drain water, remove steamer basket, and return carrots to pan; mash with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 12 cup ring mold or Bundt® pan; sprinkle mold with 5 tablespoons corn flake crumbs.
• Crack the eggs into a large bowl and beat at high speed until light yellow, about 1 minute. Stir in the cooked carrots, milk, Cheddar cheese, butter, onion, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, and the remaining 1 1/2 cup corn flake crumbs; mix well. Spoon into prepared mold.
• Bake in preheated oven until puffed and lightly browned, abut 1 hour. Remove from oven; let stand 30 minutes before inverting onto serving platter.

FLUFFY CARROT SOUFFLE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350°F.
• Butter a 2-quart casserole dish.
• Cook the carrots in boiling water until tender (about 12-15 minutes) drain very well then transfer to a bowl or you may steam the carrots until tender.
• Mash the carrots very well using a fork.
• Add in all remaining ingredients except the confectioners sugar (start with 1/2 cup brown sugar adding in more until desired sweetness is achieved) mix well to combine.
• Transfer to casserole dish.
• Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
• Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes.

PICCADILLY'S SWEET CARROT SOUFFLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Steam or boil carrots; drain well and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• While carrots are still warm, add sugar, baking powder, and vanilla.
• Beat with mixer until smooth.
• Add flour and mix well; add beaten eggs and mix well.
• Add margarine and beat well.
• Pour mixture into a lightly greased 2-quart baking dish.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until the top is light golden brown.
• Sprinkle lightly over the top with powdered sugar before serving.