Star Anise Glazed Carrots
Ingredients
4 large carrots
Cooking liquor
1 kg water
200 g caster sugar
10 star anise
10 g table salt
200 g unsalted butter
Finish glaze
12 g ultra Tex
400 g reduced glaze
Instructions
Step 1
Cut the peeled carrots length ways, to dimensions of roughly 10cm long by 3cm wide.
Step 2
Heat all ingredients of the liquor in a pan until they're boiling.
Step 3
Add carrots to a large tray.
Step 4
Pour hot liquor onto the carrots.
Step 5
Cover with greaseproof and tin foil.
Step 6
Cook at 160℃ for 25 minutes.
Step 7
Once cooked, chill the carrots in the cooking liquor.
Step 8
Once chilled, remove from the liquor.
Step 9
You should have approximately 1.25kg liquor after braising the carrots.
Step 10
Reduce the 1.25kg of liquor to 400g.
Step 11
Add 12g of ultra tex, whisking and bring to the boil to thicken.
Step 12
Dip the carrots in the thickened glaze.
Step 13
Garnish with chopped parsley.
