Roasted Carrots

The garden carrots are being harvested, and one of our family's favorite dish is roasted carrots.  It is also the EASIEST recipe to make.  Your family is going to love these carrots, even those little kids who say they don't like cooked carrots!!

You'll need:
Carrots
1 Tabs olive oil
salt and pepper (to taste)
garlic powder (optional)

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees

 First clean and slice your carrots, (lengthwise).  There's no need to peel the carrots, as long as you scrub them and get all the dirt off of them!!  Place the carrots in a short rimmed baking sheet, and drizzle with olive oil.  (Note: for this whole pan of carrots, I used 1 tablespoon of olive oil).  Then toss the carrots to evenly coat the oil over all the carrots, (I just get in there with my hands and rub the oil all over all the carrots).

Sprinkle salt, pepper, and garlic powder. (For this amount of carrots I used 1 teaspoon each salt, pepper, and garlic powder.)  Bake carrots for 25 minutes, until tender when a fork is inserted.

And there you have it!!  Roasted Carrots.  They will taste like you added honey, (because the roasting brought out the natural sugars in the carrots).  Sometimes I throw a couple of cut up onions on the baking sheet and a couple cloves of garlic.  Then let the vegetables all cook at once.  Early in the morning I can throw a chicken or a roast in my slow cooker, and at the last 1/2 hour cook my fresh carrots in the oven.  DELICIOUS!!  Tonight I'm serving these with a pork roast that I cooked in my slow cooker.

Tomorrow my husband is carrying the leftover pork roast, some roasted carrots , and a freshly make salad for his lunch.  Just a couple minutes in the microwave and this will be ever so yummy again.  Give these carrots a try.

I'm going to use the few leftovers carrots later this week when I make a butternut squash soup, so check back and get that recipe.

Enjoy and let me know how your family enjoyed the roasted carrots.