Dice Carrots for Crock Pot Beef Stew

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Dave for Expert Village today were going to make some crock pot beef stew. As part of any good beef stew you have to have some carrots in here so there's a couple of ways to doing this. You can either peel them or not of course they have a lot more nutrients if you don't peel them. I got these already washed and ready to go so let me just show you I'm going to do a little bit of both and show you how to peel a carrot in case you've never done it before. Clean it up a little bit and get it ready for our beef stew. To peel it I like to use these old style peelers they got new ones all different sizes and shapes and things like that. I just use the old style cause it pivots a little bit it has a little wiggle as you can see here I like to start at the root end and just go ahead and run this down like this. You can even use these in the beef stew if you like the peelings depends on how you feel about it how you like your beef stew. Before you just peel off that outer skin as I said we've already scrubbed these carrots so just like that you push these aside now you got a nice clean carrot. What we can do also like I said I'm going ahead and leave these whole and here's how you want to cut across a carrot we're going to do these into what they're called coins. So we'll take the root in here this makes it easy you just do all the 3 at the same time so just go ahead and split those off and then just go ahead and cut these into little coin shapes across the way. If you like them thicker you can do that to some people like to actually dice them I find the consistency comes out with the meat and the beef stew to better in coin shape like this. So just keep going through there if you like more carrots of course you can it's all your taste. But this is the easiest way to do the carrots just like that."