Baked carrots

 

We felt like carrots. Baked carrots, salty and infused with garlic and rosemary. And we wanted a side dish, so carrots it is. Here’s how it goes:

Type of dish: side

Cost: cheap

Difficulty: easy

Time: 30 min

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 5 min

Cooking Time:  25 min

What you need to make this dish:

Cutting board, knife, frying pan, wooden spatula, medium sized baking dish

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp olive oil

• 4 cloves garlic (unpeeled)

• 2 twigs of rosemary

• 4 large carrots, peeled

• Coarse salt

• White pepper

• 1 sliver of butter

How to prepare:

Begin by cutting the carrots in diagonal slices,  heat the frying pan on high heat, pour in the olive oil, when it’s hot, put in the rosemary twigs and garlic in the pan, swish around until rosemary is fried and the pan smells like rosemary. Remove the rosemary and garlic  and put it in the baking dish  rubbed with the butter. Set aside for later. Preheat the oven to 180 C. now, place the carrots in the frying pan and fry them for 7-9 min, until they are changing color to orange- yellow. Remove them from the pan and put them in the baking dish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the dish in the oven and bake for 25 min. Turn off the oven and take out the dish. They  are ready to serve.

Additional information:  the garlic is also edible after the frying and baking process, it’s great to use as a spread for small pieces of bread.

Serve with ideas: you can serve this with any kind of meat, or as a salad for parties.