Slow-Cooked Whole Carrots

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2015, America's Test Kitchen TV

Who would ever slow-cook whole carrots for an hour? We would—if the results were superbly concentrated flavor and dense, meaty texture from end to end.

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 1½ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted a technique for cooking whole carrots (currently a popular restaurant dish) that would yield a sweet and meltingly tender vegetable from one end to the other without the carrots becoming mushy or waterlogged. Gently “steeping” the...

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