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Roasted Baby Carrots

Roasted Baby Carrots

My friend Suzanne clued me into a great way to do up carrots. She uses the "Nantes" French carrots from Trader Joe's or the bunched baby carrots at Whole Foods. Note that the "baby" carrots are not those 1 inch carrots that one gets in a big bag to serve as snacks for kids. By baby carrots we mean the carrots that are 4 to 5 inches long, usually they come with the greens still on. The first time I made these I completely over-cooked them, kept them in the oven for an hour versus 30-40 minutes. They were still quite edible, but not serve-able, and definitely not photographable (high char factor). Pictured here are carrots Suzanne has prepared (thankfully correctly).

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Roasted Baby Carrots Recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs of 5 inch long baby carrots, carefully washed, greens cropped to 1 inch above top of carrot
1 red onion, peeled, cut into 8 wedges
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp fresh chopped rosemary, or 1 teaspoon of dried rosemary
Garlic powder
Salt and pepper

Method

1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Gently toss together the carrots, red onion, rosemary to coat with the olive oil. Lay out on a rimmed baking pan. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

2 Roast for 30 to 40 minutes on middle rack or bottom rack, until well browned.

Serves 4.

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10 Comments

That sounds great, I'm going to try it soon.

Posted by: kitchen hand on November 8, 2005 9:28 PM

Me too! I'm always on the lookout for new carrot recipes!

Posted by: Ilva on November 9, 2005 12:35 AM

During the winter I LOVE roasted vegetables. Thanks for the recipe!

Posted by: Andrea on November 9, 2005 9:28 AM

They sound great! I don't often roast carrots but they'd go fantastically with other Veg i would roast:
Par-boiled potatoes, chunks of butternut squash, pumpkin or maybe sweet potato, parsnip, a hand full of red beet chunks and some of these mysterious golden beets as well (i don't think we get them here in the UK as it happens)
all mixed together and tossed in olive oil. Mmm!

As a matter of taste and texture, some vegetables would be better par-boiled (or is it broiled across the pond as you are?) i think, and then patted dry or left to rest for a while.

I like to throw in some fresh garlic cloves or minced garlic 20 minutes of so before the end as well.

oooh, so exciting!

Elise i've been watching and using your blog for a while now and i find it all so wonderfully simple and delicious, so thank god for your dedication to the food. Haha, and thank you.

Posted by: Coralie on November 9, 2005 11:05 AM

I have a gas stove/oven and the flame is on the bottom (there is a drawer under the oven for broiling) - should I put the baking pan on a different shelf in the oven as a result?

Posted by: Liz on November 10, 2005 7:48 AM

There was just a hint of fall this morning: almost time for these go-with-everything carrots, which we enjoyed all last winter. But for now, Waldorf Salad it is.

Posted by: mkdob on October 11, 2007 10:57 AM

I love this recipe. I grow these carrots in my garden and it's supposed to freeze here in the next few days. This was a perfect way to use up everything that was left over!

Posted by: . on October 2, 2008 5:20 PM

I do this recipie with parsnips and carrots together but without the rosemary (my kids don't like rosemary) I generally don't have access to baby carrots however so I just quarter both the carrots and parsnips. It is wonderful! The kids eat them like fries with pretty much anything. It is actually the only way my older daughter (Elise coincidentally) will eat parsnips.

Posted by: Jennifer on October 7, 2008 9:30 AM

I was thinking of making this for Thanksgiving, but wanted to give it a shot before hands to see how it would turn out. I made it last weekend for dinner and it was very yummy! I never thought of baking carrots.

Now I'm ready to make a batch that is 3 times the batch (we have almost 50 people coming over every thanksgiving, but only a few actually eat the veggies)! Thanks for a new recipe.

Posted by: Cathy on November 26, 2008 9:56 AM


For a simpler version just cut any old carrot into slices, wrap in tinfoil with a some freshly ground pepper and butter. Probably my favorite veg, enjoy.

Posted by: Dave on December 10, 2008 3:51 PM

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