How to cut carrots into diamond slices

Carrot is a delicious and crispy common vegetable. It not only contains rich nutrients such as carotene, multiple vitamins, anthocyanins, but also has the effects of improving eyesight and whitening skin, and is known as "little ginseng". Many people like to eat carrots raw. Carrots can be cut into different shapes when cooking, so that they can be better matched with ingredients of different shapes. Let’s take a look at four different ways to cut carrots.

1. Hob block

Place a hard vegetable on the chopping board, cut it once, turn it at a different angle, and then cut it a second time. Every time it rotates, it will form an irregular shape, and when cut it will appear as a diamond-shaped block, which is called a cut block.

2. Dice

If you want to dice the carrot, first you must cut it into regular slices. If the slices are thick, the dices will be coarser. If the slices are thin, the dices will be smaller. Dicing is usually used with stir-fried green beans and the like. In this case, we cut the carrots into cubes like this.

3. Shred

Sometimes we also cut some carrot shreds and add them to the dish. When shredding carrots, because they are relatively hard, do not cut them too thick or too thin. So first you must cut each slice of the carrot to the same thickness. People often use tools such as planes to plane the carrots. The carrot shreds will be of uniform thickness, but if they are planed, the cuts will be on all four sides and therefore they will not be crispy.

Note: We often use shredded carrots. We hope that the color of the food will remain fresh and not mushy, so we need to cut it into shreds. However, when cutting the shreds, we must not cut the slices too high, as it is easy for the knife to slip and cut your hand. So after we cut it, we put it on the chopping board and push it flat with our hands, making it into a slope shape. Then we can quickly cut it into shreds with a chopping knife and chop it off with one knife. The carrots cut in this way will not only be of uniform thickness, but also taste more refreshing. This is the so-called method of cutting hard vegetables into shreds.

4. Diamond

Place the carrot flat on the chopping board and cut at a 45-degree angle between the knife and the carrot. Make another cut parallel to the cross section at a position 3 cm away. Cut into a diamond shape. Cut with the knife perpendicular to the cutting board. Place the diamond-shaped block flat on the chopping board, and cut the carrot at a 45-degree angle with the knife and the chopping board, parallel to the slope of the carrot. Do the same on the other side to form a diamond-shaped block. Parallel to the cross section, cut into diamond-shaped slices with a width of 2 mm. Finished product.