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My mom was always goin on about america's fake carrots. She would say the real carrots are in India with their beautiful gajari color. She would get mad when we called it red, shesaid it was the gajari ਗਾਜਰੀ rang which has no equivalent.

And thanks @simran345 now I know why carrots in the west are orange. My moms been trying to smuggle over indian carrot seeds, i hope india ppl dont copy the west and lose their own seeds

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On 4/19/2017 at 8:03 PM, simran345 said:

Neither did I, until I went to India. That's what they say about red peppers don't they, it's better for you. 

 

Yeah, that's what they say. In red peppers it's lycopene. I wonder if this what makes the carrots red? I think lycopene is also a big part of tomatoes too?

Some people should be careful with carrots! If you're on a low carb diet, remember that the sugar (i.e carbohydrate) content of gajjurs shoots up significantly when you cook them for ages. So I'd say that quickly steamed carrots or plain raw carrots (they give a great crunch in a salad and you can use them with dips like houmous!) might be the way to go.  

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Isher Kaur is bugging me to buy rainbow carrot seed  the colour ranges from white, yellow, orange, red, purple , kind of strange seeing this topic ... the darker the colour the more beta carotene, so India's carrots are orange in overdrive , the purple ones have anthocyanins like red cabbage and grapes.

take a look 

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vegetable+Seeds/Popular+Vegetable+Seeds/Carrot+Seeds/Carrot+Seeds+-+Rainbow+Mix_157254.htm

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21 hours ago, Kira said:

iv only ever had the orange ones..great, now I know how to make rainbow Aloo Gajaar di Sabzi.

That sounds gross. I wouldn't want to eat any rainbow Aloos, or rainbow Gajaars sabji. Keep them seperate if you want mixed colors. 

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50 minutes ago, jkvlondon said:

Isher Kaur is bugging me to buy rainbow carrot seed  the colour ranges from white, yellow, orange, red, purple , kind of strange seeing this topic ... the darker the colour the more beta carotene, so India's carrots are orange in overdrive , the purple ones have anthocyanins like red cabbage and grapes.

take a look 

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vegetable+Seeds/Popular+Vegetable+Seeds/Carrot+Seeds/Carrot+Seeds+-+Rainbow+Mix_157254.htm

That's so weird too, when the red carrots came to mind, the first person I thought of was you penji, that I'd ask you about them and the nutritional qualities lol. 

37 minutes ago, Jacfsing2 said:

That sounds gross. I wouldn't want to eat any rainbow Aloos, or rainbow Gajaars sabji. Keep them seperate if you want mixed colors. 

Hahahahaha, kuch nai hunda, chill out with the mixed veg sabji, that's different colours too, but very good for u. 

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11 minutes ago, simran345 said:

Hahahahaha, kuch nai hunda, chill out with the mixed veg sabji, that's different colours too, but very good for u. 

Honestly whenever I eat mixed vegtable Sabji, it almost always tastes too spicy. But I was mostly referring to rainbow potatoes and carrots. (Different color potatoes do exist).

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14 minutes ago, Jacfsing2 said:

Honestly whenever I eat mixed vegtable Sabji, it almost always tastes too spicy. But I was mostly referring to rainbow potatoes and carrots. (Different color potatoes do exist).

fancy some rainbow gobi to go with that rainbow aloo?

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vegetable+Plants/All+Vegetable+Plants/Cauliflower+Plants+-+Tri-colour+Collection_216171.htm

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19 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

You have to cook the veges separately! I tried making cauliflower cheese once with normal cauli, broccoli and purple broccoli. The purple broccoli leaked its colour all throughout the dish.  

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