Curried Roasted Carroted Dip
Roasting carrots before making the classic dip from Veganomicon. Two kinds of garlic - sweetly roasted, and spicy raw, light, good as a dip for veggies, a spread on crackers or sandwiches.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
For the Roasting Pan
- 450 g (1 lb) carrots cut into ½ chunks
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tsp olive oil
- ¼ tsp salt
For the Dip
- 40 g (¼ cup) roasted sunflower seeds if you have raw on hand toast with cumin seeds, if already salted, adjust salt in recipe
- ½ tsp cumin seeds heaping
- ½ tsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1-2 Tbsp Water (as need for consistency)
- 1 tsp olive oil extra virgin will add to flavour.
Roast the Carrots
Preheat oven to 400F/200C/180C fan
Cut carrots into 1/2 inch thick chunks, toss with olive oil and salt and garlic cloves and spread out in a roasting tin.
Roast in the oven until the carrots are tender and lightly browned around the edges 20-40 min (start checking around 20 minutes and stir around from time to time)
Remove from oven and let cool slightly (until warm to the touch)
While that's happening
Dry toast the cumin seeds over low/medium heat until browned and fragrant grind in a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle.
If raw, toss sunflower seeds in the same pan until fragrant.
Make the dip
Put sunflower seeds in blender or food processor and pulse until they are crumbs.
Add roasted carrot mixture, cumin, raw garlic, curry powder, 1 tsp olive oil, and lemon juice. Pulse until smooth, scrape down the sides from time to time.
Taste and adjust salt, spices, lemon juice, and water.
aaaaaaand done.
- Great as a dip (crackers, breadsticks, raw veg) but also great as a spread for sandwhiches.
- Imagine if you will:
- Sourdough Bread
- a healthy layer of this diip
- some toasted pumpkin seeds sprinkled on top
- a couple shreds/strips of beet(root)
- nom
- Next time I plan to parboil the carrots - boil 3 minutes, then roast as above, it should require less time in the oven.
Keyword carrots, dip, spread, vegan, vegetarian