Carrots in stuffing?

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I bought some Tader Joe's mirepoix to use as the vegetables in my stuffing for Thanksgiving. I know the celery and onions are on point, but I don't see many stuffing recipes with carrots in them. Is it gross to have chopped carrots in my stuffing? TIA

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If you like the way it tastes that is ALL that matters.

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I use them for color and flavor. You don't need a lot. I prefer small cubes and I blanch them in boiling water first.

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It's part of my stuffing whenever I make it. I cut the mirepoix fairly fine so that there isn't a pronounced taste of one or the other vegetable component and cook it down before starting to build up the rest of the stuffing.

The carrot will add a bit of sweetness and color and I don't think there's going to be anyone who will notice (unless you're serving someone with a carrot aversion).

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to me traditional stuffing/dressing doesn't include carrots.
I'd not use it for that purpose unless you think it sounds good to you.
or pull out the carrot part of the package and use it for something else [only taking advantage of the onions and celery].

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"Is it gross to have chopped carrots in my stuffing?"

What could possible be "gross" about carrots? If you said "anchovy" then maybe. But carrots "gross?" In my house, a mirepoix always consists of carrots, onions and celery. Carrots in stuffing is a given for me.

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I'm very surprised how many people don't expect (or would never/never/etc) carrots in stuffing. They have always been in our stuffing. Mirepoix by definition is onions, celery, carrots in a ratio of 2:1:1. 

I cooked my mirepoix yesterday to mix into my stuffing Thursday morning. And it has carrots - and it will always have carrots.

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I also do an onion-carrot-celery mirepoix for my stuffing in the 2:1:1 ratio that thimes mentioned. However, I DETEST the texture of cooked carrot and celery, so I chop both in a food processor until they are extremely fine (onions I love so I chop them coarsely). Once sweated in copious amounts of butter and mixed in with all the other stuffing ingredients, the carrot and celery melt away, just leaving their flavor behind.

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I bought one carrot (16 cents) last night to shred for my stuffing.

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Thank you so much for all of your help. I've decided to go sans carrots - my stuffing was not well received last years, so I want to err on the side of caution! :)

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I am so glad I found this post! This year I got the greatest unsolicited reviews on my stuffing for the first time ever!! See, I wanted to add carrots, but was afraid it would ruin the history of stuffing hahaha! After reading the comments below, I went for it and also added chopped pecans and OMG!!!! WONDERFUL! Do it! Add carrots! I diced mine into really tiny little bits (fyi). Good luck.

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Any day but Thanksgiving!

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