Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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364 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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I've almost always got a bag or two of organic frozen peas in my freezer and I do not know what variety they are.

The list isn't necessarily in order of hero status, but it kind of is.

So the carrots are number two and they could have been number one.

And I just, I couldn't emphasize what a fantastic ingredient they are too much.

They are brilliant.

What I think is really interesting about carrots, I had the same experience of carrots at school, cut into rounds.

and boiled in lots of water, half the flavor's gone with the water that went down the sink.

They're probably cooked until they're mushy.

Any sense of pleasing resistance or bite about them, that's gone too.

So it is tragic that so many of our first experiences of these amazing, wonderful vegetables were disappointing, bordering on revolting.

So I think one of the things you find very quickly if you've got kids, often kids don't like cooked carrots, but they do like them raw.

And that immediately gives you something to work with.

Why do kids prefer raw carrots to cooked?

Because they haven't been boiled and have all the flavors still in there.

And they like crunch.

They've got a nice crunch to them.

You get the instant sweetness.

The actual flavor of a carrot is intact.

You've done nothing to do it to spoil the carrot.

So the other end of the spectrum from ruining the flavor of a carrot by boiling is how do you make the carrot, a cooked carrot, even more delicious?

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