Tangy Sweet Roasted Carrots
- 1 lb sliced carrots, baby carrots, chopped carrots.
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/16 tsp ground red (cayenne) pepper
- 1/8 tsp salt (10 grinds on my salt grinder)
- 1/8 tsp black pepper (6 grinds on my grinder)
- 1/2 cup loose (not packed) dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Preparation: Preheat oven to 375F.
- Prepare baking sheet or shallow pan by lining with foil and parchment (to avoid heavy scrubbing of pan afterward.)
- Place carrots in medium-large bowl.
- Mix spices into a small bowl, and mix together.
- Place sugar into a medium bowl.
- Break up large clumps of sugar with back of spoon.
- Mix spices and sugar together until well-mixed and few, if any, lumps.
- Mix olive oil into spice/sugar mixture to make a loose paste or slurry.
- Add slurry to carrots and mix/toss until all pieces are well coated.
- Spread carrots onto prepared baking pan.
- Bake at least 30 minutes, until tender and some edges are browning.
- The time will be dependent on the thickness and overall size of carrot pieces.
- Additional notes: When I anticipate being pressed for time, I will follow the recipe up through the point where the spice mixture is tossed with the carrots.
- After that, I will put the bowl (or zip bag or other container) of carrots into the refrigerator for up to a day or so before roasting.
- Allow some extra time for the roasting (just another 5 minutes or so) if you start with cold carrots.
- I have mixed this up in the evening, put it in the refrigerator, come home from work, turned the oven on, and then finished the recipe so it is cooking while I change clothes, set the table, get the rest of dinner ready.
- So, while the cooking time isn't short, it is an easy recipe.
carrots, onion, garlic, ground red, salt, black pepper, loose, extra virgin olive oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/360380-tangy-sweet-roasted-carrots (may not work)