Orange blend: Carrot-Sweet Potato base blend

From Missy Chase Lapine's "Sneaky Blends" cookbook. This will be helpful for other recipes from her book, which will be added to this Sneaky Veggie community. "This blend takes a bit more time than some of the others, but I have to tell you---it's my favorite! It works in almost anything thanks to its creamy, deliciously sweet flavor profile. You can use it as a base for pasta sauce to take down the acidity, and it replaces cheese or butter in sweet or savory recipes. Don't drive yourself crazy dicing the veggies; a rough chop is fine. Just try to make them roughly the same size so they cook evenly. Some markets do sell frozen dice sweet potatoes. If you can find these timesavers, use them! Pick up some frozen carrots, too. Then you can skip the steaming and simply flash-thaw them by pouring hot water over both veggies and go directly to the blending step. You'll need about 4 cups of frozen chopped sweet potatoes and 3 cups of frozen chopped carrots total."

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet