Yoast, my right hand, tells me that I need the recipe title in the first paragraph, so here it is: Easy Low Carb Creamy Carrots and Mushrooms in White Sauce on Cooking Romania by Vivi :). Joke aside, this is one of the easiest and yummiest low carb keto recipes you can cook in exactly 20 minutes! You need only 5 main ingredients and no patience is necessary. Clean the carrots, onions and mushrooms and voila! you have the best low carb lunch or dinner for you and your loved one in only 15 minutes.
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Easy Low Carb Creamy Carrots and Mushrooms in White Sauce Recipe
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Easy Low Carb Creamy Carrots and Mushrooms in White Sauce
Course: Uncategorized2
servings5
minutes15
minutes300
kcal20
minutesEasy Low Carb Creamy Carrots and Mushrooms in White Sauce is one of the most popular recipes in our household. We love heavy cream (sour cream in Romania), carrots, mushrooms and green onion. You can add chicken, butter, white wine, ginger, curry or lime leaves to it. Don’t hesitate to add ingredients to your liking to this basic recipe!
Ingredients
2 large carrots chopped
3 green onions chopped
15 large mushrooms sliced
salt to taste
(Egyptian) spices
1/2 cup sour cream
100 g cheese spread
1/2-1 cup water
2 tbsp. fresh or dried parsley
olive oil for cooking
Directions
- Slice carrots, mushrooms, onions.
- In a wok add the olive oil, onion and carrots.
- Add salt and spices.
- Sauté over high heat for 2 minutes.
- Add mushrooms. Stir gently. Sauté for 3 minutes.
- Add water.
- Allow to cook over low heat for 5 min.
- Add sour cream.
- Add cheese and parsley. Cook another 2 minutes.
Recipe Video
Notes
- You can substitute the green onion for white onion.
- Don’t overcook; the crunchier the better.
- Check out the carrot and mushroom facts below :).
- Don’t forget you can add chicken, butter, curry or lime leaves, white wine or ginger to this recipe.
Check out another really easy mushroom recipe on our blog:
8 Amazing Facts about Carrots
- Carrots are usually orange, but they can also be white, yellow, red, and purple.
- People first grew carrots as medicine, not food.
- Carrots are 88% water.
- Carrots can be traced back about 5,000 years. The exact location where they appeared first is not known because in the beginning many people mistook them for parsnips.
- Carrots were first grown in Afghanistan. Carrots are grown everywhere throughout the world today, yet the first cultivated carrot was recorded in Afghanistan around 1000 AD.
- The carrot is an excellent source of vitamin A. Carrots are loaded with beta-carotene, a natural chemical that the body changes into vitamin A.
- Cooked carrots are better for you then eat carrots raw. There is 2-4% of beta-carotene in raw carrots whilst cooking them provides you with 40% of the vitamin.
- You can leave them in the ground all winter.
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Fun Facts about Mushrooms
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