What to do with carrot juice?

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I bought an odwalla carrot juice the other day; I’ve never had it before but it was on sale (and I had a coupon, so what better time to try it?).

I’ve heard from other people that carrot juice is very good and surprisingly sweet for what it is, but the first sip of this was nothing like that, and I realized I can’t drink it straight.

That said, it’s pretty carroty, and there’s got to be some yummy recipes I could make for dinner tonight using the juice. It’s about 16 floz, and I have most standard pantry items, but could ask my roommate to grab something on the way home from work if I need it.

So, any ideas?

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You can also mix carrot juice with other juices and drink it.

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Add it (sparingly) to any soup or stew which benefits from the flavor of carrots. Beef stew or vegetable soup come to mind.

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Markxxx, are than any other juices (or other drinks) that are especially good with carrot juice? This was kind of a whim purchase, as I don’t normally keep juice in the house.

I was thinking of that, teela brown. I figured if I didn’t get anything I could do tonight, I’d freeze the juice in ice cube trays for just such an idea. I love ice cube trays for things like that.

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I would go for carrot soup. My favorite is this one, although there’s plenty of variations out there.

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Cook rice in it and make a pilaf, and put some raisins and coconut in it. Pretend you’re in Morocco.

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You can mix it with orange juice; many places sell carrot/orange juice. Or tomato juice; sort of like homemade V-8. And yes, carrot soup is great, but it you don’t like the juice you may not like the soup either.

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You must have got a bad batch. We drink a lot of carrot juice at the house and it’s usually sweet and carroty but once in a while we get a bottle that tastes like what you described.

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I’ve put it in orange or tomato juice too. I don’t like straight pomegranite juice either.

You could also try it in various types of teas.

Outside of carrot cake, which to me is just an excuse to have something to put cream cheese frosting on, I think you should do the freeze ice cubes with the juice then experiment

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I suppose it could be a bad batch, tr0psh4j. Thing is that it didn’t taste bad, just not sweet and overwhelmingly carroty.

A carrot soup might be interesting, for sure, but I can see why it might also not work.

What I need, and somehow suspect isn’t out there, is a way to tastily combine the carrot juice with around a pound of ground beef (now that I’ve opened the fridge again, and been reminded of that).

Still, that carrot soup sounds really good. How would I modify the cooking to adapt a pound of carrots to 15.2oz (checked the bottle) of juice? Seems like I wouldn’t have to cook it nearly as long.

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Hmmm…Well, a pound of carrots is about a cup of juice. The problem is if you substitute out the pound of carrots, you’ll be missing the bulk necessary to give the soup its body (as the carrots get blended in at the end.) Depending on how much you like carrots, I would probably use 2 cups chicken broth, 1 cup carrot juice (instead of the 3 cups chicken broth) as the base, and taste and go from there.

I don’t know how your juice tastes, so I can’t say for certain, but I know you definitely can make a carrot soup of that that’s tasty with a little bit of tasting-and-adjusting.

Here’s a recipe for braised chicken in carrot juice that looks like an idea. I’m also fairly certain carrot juice would make a decent base for a beef stew of some sort, based on root vegetables.

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pulykamell, you always have the best sounding recipes!

Thanks for the suggestion on how to modify the soup. It might be part of dinner tonight, if I can talk the roommate into picking up some ginger and pepper flakes on the way home.