Vegan cook goes viral for carrot bacon recipe: ‘This should be in the Louvre’
Recipe calls for just six ingredients
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Your support makes all the difference.A vegan home chef is going viral on TikTok after sharing a recipe for carrot strips that taste like bacon.
Tabitha Brown, an actress and author from North Carolina, recently uploaded the video of herself creating the plant-based maple-flavoured snack on the social media platform, where it has since been liked more than 2.7m times and viewed more than 12.6m times.
“Do you see carrots or do you see bacon?” Brown asks in the video as she holds up raw carrots. “I’m about to make carrot bacon uh huh.”
According to Brown, the first step requires a peeler, which is used to shave the large carrots into thin slices that resemble bacon.
“Now you've got a few strips, but if you want more than this, then do that because that's your business,” Brown says as she holds up the carrot strips.
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The next step requires mixing liquid smoke, maple syrup, garlic powder, smoked paprika and onion powder with black pepper.
“Mix this all up because this is your seasoning,” Brown explains as she swirls the mixture together. “And this is your concoction for your carrots to turn it into the bacon.”
After letting the carrots strips marinate for about two minutes or so, Brown transfers them to an air fryer, where she cooks them at 380 degrees for five minutes. She also tells viewers they can use the oven.
The result is crispy carrot “bacon” that resembles the breakfast meat, with the same crunch.
“Take it out and baby you got some bacon,” Brown says.
The simple recipe has become a hit on social media, where people are intrigued by the possibility of swapping meat for carrots.
“There’s this lady on TikTok who makes vegan food in most of her videos and she has the most soothing voice I’ve ever heard and she’s also the only person in the world I’d trust that says bacon can be made out of carrots,” one person tweeted.
Another said: “I can’t stop thinking about trying carrot bacon.”
As for what to make with the carrot bacon, Brown also shared another TikTok recipe in which she uses it to make a BLT wrap with pickles.
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