Sweet-and-sour beet-carrot saute
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients:
- 3 tb Oil
- 2 Beets; sliced
- 2 Carrots; sliced
- 2 Onions; halved and sliced
- 1/4 c Raisins
- 2 tb Honey
- 2 tb Vinegar or lemon juice
- 2 tb Tamari
- 2 Garlic cloves; mashed
Instructions:
Heat oil in skillet; stir-fry the beets carrots onions and raisins for several minutes over medium-high heat. Add the remaining ingredients; lower heat. Toss well to combine. Cover and steam until the vegetables are tender 15 to 20 minutes. Horton wrote: "The flavors in this recipe are absolutely remarkable. You may use all beets or all carrots instead but the combination is superb and beautiful to look at as you prepare. If the beets are well scrubbed they do not have to be peeled." From The Motherlode commune/Oregon. In _Country Commune Cooking_ by Lucy Horton. New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan Inc. 1972. Pg. 122. SBN 698-10456-0. Electronic format by Cathy Harned.



