Carrots

[Jaimsieboy]

Do you think it is wise to place chopped carrots into a pot of potatoes and cook both of them at the same time ?

[rowanwitch]

depends.. the potatoes will pick up some of the carrot flavour personally I'd cook them separately unless I was planning to mash them together

[EcclesCake]

Personally I wouldn't.

If I did though, I would put the carrots in after the spuds as they won't need as long to cook.

[Jaimsieboy]

Thanks for your answers... J/Boy

[ummmm]

I'd do it on a tiered steamer.

[Wharton]

ummmm
check the How It Works topic

[heathfield]

I often follow what my mum used to do - cook carrots with potatoes, then mash them. Looks nice, tastes nice. I do the same with potatoes and chopped onions. Again, tastes nice, though the mash tends to be more moist using onions.

[EcclesCake]

If you don't have a steamer bunging the carrots in a sieve or colander over the boiling spuds works, you need to bung a lid on of course.

[ethandron]

Jaimsieboy, I regularly do just that if I'm feeling particularly lazy and don't want a load of pans to wash up. I also put peas, green beans, broc, cauli and any other veg (not put cabbage in) we're having with the meal, in the same pan. Just throw them in at the required time.
Unless you happen to be a gourmet with a particularly sensitive palate you would never know they had all been cooked in the same pan.

[Canary42]

No problem, I do it all the time.

[Smowball]

I use a layered steamer when Im doing more than one veg

[Dee Sa]

I always do this if making cottage pie, mash the two together for the topping looks better than just insipid mash.