Sweet & Sour CarrotsSweet & Sour Carrots


Preparation time:
  About 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 8 minutes
Serves: 4

 

Ingredients:

1/4 cup vegetable broth

2 Tbs      each vinegar and firmly packed brown sugar

1 Tbs      cornstarch

1 Tbs      olive oil

1 lb         carrots (about 4 medium-size), cut into 1/4 inch thick slanting slices

1              onion, small, cut in half, then cut crosswise into 1/4 inch thick slices

3 Tbs      vegetable broth

                Salt

                Minced, fresh parsley (optional)

 

Directions:

In a small bowl, stir together the 1/4 cup broth, vinegar, sugar and cornstarch and set aside.

Place wok or large frying pan over high heat.  When pan is hot, add oil.  When oils is ot, add carrots and onion and stir-fry for 1 minute.  Add the 3 tablespoons broth and reduce heat to medium.  Cover and cook until carrots are tender-crisp to bite.  Increase heat to high.  Stir cornstarch mixture and pour into pan.  Stir until the sauce boils and thickens.  Season to taste with salt.  Sprinkle with fresh parsley if desired.

NOTE:  This can be used as a delicious side dish and the sauce compliments cauliflower and green beans too.

To make this a heartier main meal, add more veggies of your liking.  Choose cauliflower and/or green beans above or take your pick from squash, mushrooms, broccoli, eggplant and so many others.  Make the combination your own.

Source:  The Complete Wok Cookbook from Sunset Books

 

Christine Hunt is a Wellness Coach and Certified EFT Practitioner and has found that working with the whole person by combining mind/body work, dietary adjustments and movement provides her clients with the tools they need to lose weight (and keep it off) and positively transform their lives.  Contact her for a free, 15 minute consultation to learn why what she does works when other methods have failed.

Christine Hunt

An experienced Wellness Coach, Certified EFT and Certified Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner, Christine Hunt gets results for her clients that conventional therapies cannot. She takes the whole person approach when working with her clients to help them lose weight, get relief from chronic illness & pain, trauma/PTSD and addictions of all kinds. She has been a Certified Practitioner since 2013 and has done hundreds of sessions helping her clients to uncover and remove the obstacles to their problems with weight, illness, pain, addictions, traumas, relationships, grief/loss and financial security opening doors to their personal fulfillment and happiness. Contact her for a free, 15 minute consultation to learn why what she does works when other methods have failed. Christine works with her clients in person, by Skype or phone.  So, if you live away from the Annapolis, Maryland area, she can still work with you.