Roasted Carrots
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Roasted carrots is one of my family’s absolute favorites. Just roasted carrots, garlic, and butter make delicious easy oven baked carrots.
This roasted carrots recipe is the perfect solution to get you out of your dinner vegetables rut. Carrots baked in the oven with garlic and butter are such a simple easy side dish. Serve them with Mississippi pot roast, yum!
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Roasted Carrots
Roasted Carrots
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Roasted Carrot Ingredients
- Carrots – whole carrots or baby carrots
- Butter – melted (salted or unsalted)
- Garlic salt – to taste
How do you make roasted carrots?
⭐ First, rinse carrots well, and remove icky ends. Slice into halves or thirds (if you’re using whole carrots).
⭐ Then, spread over baking sheet in a single layer, and drizzle with melted butter. Toss to coat.
⭐ Finally, sprinkle liberally with garlic salt and bake on middle rack of oven until they are tender to your liking.
Recipe FAQs
Use whole carrots or baby carrots, whichever is easier for you! And here’s a secret – I never peel my carrots. Or my potatoes, for that matter. Just give them a good scrub sinkside and you’re all set.
This recipe is so easy, we’ve even taught our ten year old how to cook carrots in the oven.
Preparation
While we skip peeling the carrots, I do cut the ends off. Not because they’ll hurt you if you eat them (you’ll be fine!), but because my kids squawk if I don’t. Choose your battles wisely folks. Carrot ends are not worth a tantrum in my mind. Hah!
If we’re using whole carrots for the garlic roasted carrots recipe, then I’ll also cut them down into halves or thirds. Just to make serving and eating easier.
What kind of butter for roasted garlic carrots?
This recipe will taste delicious no matter the butter you use, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to being a total butter snob. Pretty much anything else I’ll take the off-brand, but when butter is one of only three ingredients to a recipe, I feel like choosing a high quality butter is important.
I’m partial to a good European butter with low water content. Mmmmmm. If you’re dairy free, then just sub in some clarified butter or ghee!
What kind of garlic for roasted carrots?
If you’d like to use fresh garlic for our garlic butter carrots recipe, then by all means, please do. But we’ve found garlic salt does the trick just fine.
I like the garlic salt with that has dried parsley flakes in it. Green is pretty, yo.
Garnishes
If you’re serving the carrots to a crowd and want it fancier looking (although, really, what’s prettier than a vibrant orange tray of perfectly roasted oven carrots slathered in butter and garlic?!), chop some fresh parsley and sprinkle it over top.
Green is pretty, yo. No, but really. I love the color green.
Complete the meal with our serving suggestions
These roasted carrots go wonderfully with our pulled pork recipe, shaved brussel sprouts salad, and a heaping helping of cauliflower mash. Oh, and definitely don’t forget a yummy dessert of nutella cookies!
More Like Roasted Carrots
- Sheet Pan Roasted Broccoli
- Roasted Green Beans
- Oven Roasted Okra
- Glazed Carrots
- Roasted Cauliflower Recipe
Tools we love
- Santuko knife – My favorite knife for cutting vegetables! This knife is the perfect size and shape, handles great, and is super reasonably priced. Also, I just love that it’s fun and colorful!
- Bakers half sheet – It’s cool, we only have about six of these bakers half sheets because they’re good for absolutely everything. Cookies? Yes! Steak? Yes! Cake? Oh yeh! Roasted veggies? Uhhhh huh!
- Lawry’s Garlic Salt With Parsley – I put this garlic salt on pretty much everything. It’s my favvvvvorite. Obviously fresh garlic is fabulous. But let’s be reasonable here, we’re working adults. Fresh garlic isn’t always going to happen.
- White Porcelain Serving Dishes Platter – I’m a firm believer that food looks prettier on a white platter. Maybe I’m nuts (definitely), but I love a nice clean white platter!
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How to make roasted carrots
Roasted Carrots
Ingredients
- Carrots - 1 bag of whole carrots per baking sheet or 1 large bag of baby carrots
- Butter - 1/2 cup per tray melted (use clarified butter or ghee if you're dairy free)
- Garlic salt to taste
Instructions
- Rinse carrots well, and remove icky ends. Slice into halves or thirds (if you're using whole carrots).
- Spread over baking sheet in a single layer, and drizzle with melted butter. Toss to coat.
- Sprinkle liberally with garlic salt and bake on middle rack of oven at 425 degrees for approximately 30 minutes, until they are tender to your liking.
- Serve and enjoy!
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I made these carrots for my family a few days ago. And they were a hit. So yummy and tender.
woohoo! glad you liked them! <3
These are the best and so easy to make! We love them!
Hello April!
A good side dish idea is gold! Love the tips in this post! It’s a fabulous recipe either for entertaining or just regular family meals. I have a feeling my toddler will love these!
We just LOVE roasted veg!!
I do it all year round. In the winter obviously I use the oven, but in the summer I get the outdoor pizza oven going and cook them out there!
These roasted carrots look perfect.
I am excited to add them to our dinner.
these were delicious! so much so, i am making them for the second time this week. i threw in some onion on top and this time i’m using colored carrots because they’re pretty. 🙂
love it! they’re one of our favorites too. the onions are a genius idea!
This recipe looks delicious! I love carrots, but they have to be cooked. I don’t mind fresh ones if they are thinly sliced and put in a salad. I never liked to just pick up a carrot and eat them……I don’t know why. 🙁 I’ll try to remember to let you know how they turn out. 🙂