Caramelized Carrots
A delicious recipe for your garden grown carrots.
Growing carrots is easy. Well it's easy when you use the Compost Hero Leaf Compost method. Here is a recipe for the loads of carrots you will have in the late winter after a season growing carrots using leaf compost. This recipe is a favorite as a side dish to any festive meal.
Ingredients
- 8 - 10
- Carrots pulled from your garden.
- 2
- Cloves garlic, hopefully pulled from your garden.
- 1
- Small piece of ginger, hopefully pulled from your garden.
- 2
- Dried cayenne peppers, hopefully pulled from your garden.
- 1
- Juice of whole lemon
- 1
- Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1
- Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2
- Tbsp sugar
Directions
- 1. Cut carrots into regular pieces. To get more surface area in contact with the pan, square up your carrot pieces and discard the remnants.
- 2. In a large skillet, heat 1 Tbsp Vegetable oil, 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar and the juice of one whole lemon.
- 3. Bring skillet up to medium-high heat. When the oil and liquid is hot and steaming, add the carrots in a single layer and cover. Cook for 5 minutes. Uncover and cook another 5 minutes staring regularly to brown the carrots. Keep an eye on them as they should be developing a nice caramelization at this point.
- 4. Add remaining ingredients and cook another 5 minutes or until the garlic and ginger are cooked and the sugar has glazed the caramelized carrots.
- 5. Serve with a garnish of carrot tops, the bitter green carrot tops are a nice contrast to the sweet and savory of the caramelized carrot.
