Carrot Purée with Yogurt

A Turkish carrot can be as long as a flute and as sweet as honey. Used in many meat and vegetable dishes, they are particularly pleasant as meze. This can vary from a simple arrangement of long strips of carrot, dressed in salt and lemon juice, sprouting out of a jug like a vase of rigid flowers, to slices of carrot deep-fried and served warm with cool garlic-flavoured yogurt. Variations of havuç ezmesi, like the one from Istanbul using beyaz peynir and ch