Roasted Baby Carrots cooked to perfection, drizzled with honey and tossed in crushed pistachios. Very easy to make.
I tend to be obsessive in life. When I like something I do a lot of it.
Case in point:
- cooking
- eating carrots
- eating pistachios
- watching the walking dead
- then watching the walking dead again
- then one more time to be sure I didn’t miss anything
- then a fourth time to be really sure I didn’t miss anything
- and by anything at all I mean Daryl Dixon, aka Norman Reedus
- or as I like to call him, my future husband. Just don’t tell my current one.
Let’s keep that last one to ourselves. It’s our little secret. Pinkie swear?
M’kay.
Okay back to the carrots. Sorry about that. Got all carried away with stuff, and things.
I love roasted carrots, I make Balsamic Roasted Baby Carrots quite often. I also love them with honey drizzled over them. I made a batch recently and decided to toss some pistachio bits over them that I had leftover from a baking project. Turned out wonderfully. Now I want to toss pistachios on everything.
Cripes, your mind just went there, didn’t it? Come on people, mind out of the gutter! The only thing I’d be throwing at him is myself.
Okay, go forth and make carrots. Roasted Carrots with Honey and Pistachios. And try to forget the image of Norman Reedus covered in pistachios. For those that can’t, well, you’re welcome!
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- 681 grams 1.5 pounds/24 ounces baby carrots, tops removed, peeled if desired
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Dash of coarse salt
- Dash of pepper if desired
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup chopped or crushed pistachios more or less to taste
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Preheat oven to 400 degree F.
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Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper, if you don't have any just spray it liberally with non-stick cooking spray.
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Rinse your carrots and pat dry.
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In a medium sized glass bowl place the carrots inside.
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Pour the olive oil over top, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss the carrots until well coated then pop them onto the cookie sheet.
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Place in oven and roast them for about 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how crisp or soft you like your carrots, and how thick they are.
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Now remove from oven, but keep the oven turned on, and the cookie sheet nearby The carrots will be going back into the oven momentarily.
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Use a spatula and transfer the carrots to a bowl. Drizzle honey over top and toss to coat really well. Place them back on the cookie sheet, and spread them about evenly. Cook for about 10 to 15 minutes longer, this varies wildly depending on the thickness of the carrots, so watch them carefully. Honey burns quickly.
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Remove from oven. Transfer to a bowl. Sprinkle with more coarse salt, pepper if desired. Toss the pistachios over top.
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Serve with a big old honey and pistachio loving smile!
Recipe Source: Cravings of a Lunatic
Now on with the giveaway deets! I know you all enjoy a good giveaway. You’re going to love this one!
Just in time for Mother’s Day…
We’re giving away a bright and shiny KitchenAid mixer. Your mom deserves one, right?
Or maybe you deserve one.
One lucky winner will receive a 5-quart KitchenAid stand mixer in the color “Ice”. Enter below using the Rafflecopter widget; you’ll have until May 4th to win.
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Toodles and smoochies! xx
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
What a you beaut recipe! (That’s Australian for AMAZE-ing)
I use pistachio dukkah and honey on carrots and it’s about the same thing only finer texture. I LOVE these carrots.
Fantastic giveaway.. best of luck to the winner.
Kim Beaulieu says
I love the word beaut. I will now commence with using it obsessively.
I have to try that Maureen. I think the finer texture would be awesome. I had some broken bits from making bark so I just tossed them over top.
I wish you lived in the states. You must feel like I do with giveaways. So many we can’t enter. I swear I make that Homer Simpson noise every time I see it’s not Canuck Friendly…doh.
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
no no, the phrase is ‘you beaut’ don’t ask me why, I wasn’t born here 🙂 you must come before beaut.
Sporting teams? it’s always the in front of it. As in go The Demons. I still roll my eyes. And we barrack for them, no rooting. Rooting is a sex word. LOL
Kim Beaulieu says
Ha, I love it. You beaut it is!
That’s sort of odd about the sporting teams. I’d probably go to a game with the “the” crossed out just to stir up trouble.
And ah ha, a new sex word. This could prove fun! Or terrible. I must google. ha
Cindy Stewart says
homemade bread, rye, pumpernickel, and some sort of a sweet and a savory one!! then a fantastic type of a desert, oh maybe cream puffs or ?? so many things i would love to make……i have wanted one of these for 30+ years! 🙂
keshakeke says
I would make chocolate chip cookies
Joan says
I think I’d make a cake.
Lisa Brown says
I would make dough for oatmeal cookies
lori says
I would go crazy making candy candy candy
Sue says
A giant batch of everything cookies. The batter is too stiff for my old hands to stir any more.
Kim McCallie says
I would make a pound cake.
Goreti says
The first recipe I would use it for is Peach and Roasted Cinnamon Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Sugar . That recipe sounds amazing.
KT says
I LOVE Carrots! Cooking these tonight!
Ramona W says
Perfect recipe for today!! Happy Easter. 🙂
Jenn says
Vanilla cake with fresh strawberry buttercream!
Chris says
This is a must try for Easter dinner this week! Thanks for coming up with a timely recipe to give the veggies some oomph.
cyndi says
Coconut pound cake – my recipe folds in the beaten egg whites & my little hand mixer just does’t beat an egg white like a syand mixer does!
The carrot recipe sounds wonderful & i will take my Daryl drizzled in honey, please.
Chris says
Oh, and the first thing I would make with the mixer? A card to gift it to my beautiful daughter as she is now juggling the working mom / domestic diva roles. My bet, however, is that she would be cranking out my oatmeal chocolate chip walnut cookies first as they seem to be the biggest request I still get! (and that’s a pain living in the NWT and having most of the family in NS!) 😀
mallory says
I’d love to make some sea salted caramel snickerdoodles with this lovely machine. My KitchenAid is just about to die – it was my grandmothers and has made a lot of delicious recipes.
Robyn says
Cakes and buttercream forever 😉
Lorry says
Cheesecake!
Charlene P says
Would love to make chocolate crown cookies and pizza dough
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
I LOVE THE ICE COLOR KA STAND MIXER!!!
Kim…you know I’d make EVERYYYYTHING!!!! Probs cookies first though….let’s be real!
Karen Ostrom says
I’d make a humming bird Cake, I’ve seen the recipe and it looks so much like a holiday all by itself.
SandyN says
Chocolate Chip Cookies! 🙂
Fatimah Steele says
I would make cinnamon swirl bread!
Renee says
The color of the KitchenAid mixer is so pretty! The first thing I’d make is Macarons with salted caramel filling.
Kelly D says
I would make cinnamon rolls.
michele nicastro says
i would make bread!
Chrissy says
Ohhhhh it is a beaut! First thing for sure would be mashed potatoes. Never had better ones than the ones my mom makes in her mixer. It’d be a wonderful early wedding gift!!
allison k says
Pizza crust
Laura Blickenstaff says
I would make my famous chocolate chip cookies. Except maybe with pb chips. Yummy!
Kelli says
I would use this much needed mixer to help out with my baking pound cakes and goodies that I have started selling and making for friends and loved ones. Having to use a cheap hand mixer to make dozens of cakes is a nightmare!!
sarah says
Frosted sugar cookies would be the first thing I would make
Trisha B. says
I would bake a triple layer cake if I won. There are so many things I would be able to make with one of these, but a cake woud probably be the first thing.
Tricia says
I’d love to try cinnamon rolls….
Pam Sohan says
I would make some bread. My current mixer can barely handle chocolate chip cookie dough anymore.
Allison says
I’d make homemade whipped cream. It’s a favorite in our house, but a pain to make by hand!
Allison Krzastek says
I’d make caramel cappuccino cookies!
Emily @ Life on Food says
Some marvelous cookie that is packed full of all sorts of candies.
Jacki says
bread! any kind.
Lily Sheng says
I’ll make pizza dough!
alice f. says
Beaut is my favorite new word! If I were blessed enough to win this mixer, I would make chocolate chip cookies!
[email protected] Riffs says
Aren’t roast carrots so good? Just love them. And I’ll have pistachios on anything, thank you very much.
Kelly Westerman says
My Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Kelli W. says
I’d make chocolate cake with peanut butter icing!
shari w. says
I think I would make an angel food cake from scratch 🙂
Tina W says
I would make pizza dough.
steve weber says
I would make some type of muffins.
Sharon Kenney says
Making Italian traditional dishes, in my Naples, Italy casa…..
Choc Chip Uru says
These carrots look glazed to perfection, delicious job 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Debbie H says
Those carrots look super yummy! And this mixer would be a huge blessing!
Courtenay says
I would make bread. And rolls. And keep my husband away from it!! He decided my mixer needed adjusting, so he fiddled with the screws and when I went to make my Easter rolls the top part of the unit started bouncing and it tore the coating off my dough hook. He had unknowingly adjusted the beater setting too low. Gotta love him, he was trying to help.
Maria Juliana Armenta says
I would lve to have a Kitchen Aid. I love them!
SGG says
I’ve ALWAYS wanted a mixer like this!
Tammy L. says
I really love coming to your blog. I found you on G+ and now I’m hooked. I think it is amazing that you are raffling a KitchenAid :). Thank you and I am crossing my fingers!!
Kelly Zdrowak says
I absolutely love baking, so I would make my grandmas special chocolate chip cookies that have been passed down for generations in my family and perfected by her 🙂
Elizabeth @Mango_Queen says
I would bake a Mango Chiffon Cake with Mango Buttercream Icing. I hope I win this, loving the new Kitchen Aid mixer color. Thanks for doing this event!
Amy @Very Culinary says
Roasted and grilled vegetables are just THE. BEST. I’ll take all 4 servings of these, please. I ain’t sharing.
Paula - bell'alimento says
This is my very favorite way to eat carrots!
Kayla says
I would make so much bread, SO MUCH.
The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time says
I would make bread. Lots and lots of bread.
Courtney @ Neighborfood says
You crack me up! I’m totally the same way with TV shows I really love. I could watch them over and over. These are some of the best looking carrots I’ve ever seen. Great photos!
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes says
Awesome giveaway!!! I would make chocolate chip cookies cuz they are my fave!
Anita at Hungry Couple says
Yum. I need to roast some carrots. And I need me a mixer to make some bread. 🙂
Dawn Lopez says
These are literally the most gorgeous carrots I’ve ever seen! WOW! And.. I am a total Walking Dead fan too! LOVE IT!
elisse says
I’d let my chef hubs make something- probably pesto with herbs from our garden!! 🙂
Angie says
These are the prettiest and tastiest carrots ever!
Rebecca {foodie with family} says
Oh my goodness. Those carrots are calling to me. I love the little super caramelized bits. I would probably eat an entire tray full of them and not share.
Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic says
I’m glad I’m not the only one that watches a series 4 times to catch all the little nuances. I don’t roast whole carrots enough. I like how you added honey to sweeten the deal. Not the the thought of a pistachio covered Norman Reedus wasn’t sweet enough.
dena says
Challah!
Susan says
I say pistachio and roast all the things! So this has got to be fabulous.
suzanne Perazzini says
We just had a big bowlful of carrots tonight too. I am with you on The Walking Dead. I miss it so much when the season ends. The same with Strike Back. What is about violent TV programs? The men, maybe?
Lauren Kelly says
Cookies! Cakes! And Breads! I have lots of big plans 🙂
francesca says
Ahh the power and deliciousness of carrots. Never thought to add an extra crunch + color pop. Makes so much sense. Looks delicious!
Mary says
Love roasted carrots so this must be fantastic!
Mary says
The first thing I would make with the mixer if I won would definitely be bread!!
Marsha says
I would love to make my families favorite sugar cookies.
shawn says
I would make a big batch of chocolate cookies! =)
Britne says
if I had a kitchen-aid mixer, I would make a lavender honey vanilla cupcake!!
Susan Harkins says
I would make whatever my son and his friends requested. They love everything i make.
Melody says
What an interesting recipe- it sounds DELICIOUS but I never would have thought of this combination! Oh it would be so hard to decide what to make first with a stand mixer…probably pizza crust, since it’s something I’m trying to perfect 🙂
Karen H says
I believe the first thing I’d make would be a cake and a good buttercream frosting. I’ve been coveting this mixer and love a chance at winning one!
Lyn says
I would make some chocolate chip cookies
Lacey says
I would probably make some kind of cookies or bread!
Kellie Anderson says
I would make this marshmallow frosting that is tricky to do by yourself but with a kitchen aid it would be to be able to do it yourself in the kitchen aid.
Marie B. says
I would make my favorite buttercream frosting, It’s annoying to hold the hand mixer the whole time.
Katherine says
Thanks for the recipe and the contest.
Angela says
Always enjoy your blog posts and recipes!
Pat Geurtze says
I love your blog and recipes! If I win the Kitchen Aid Mixer, the first thing I would make is my all time favorite banana cake with cream cheese frosting!
Susan says
The first recipe I’d make with my new Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer, is homemade Marshmallows! I’ve always wanted to try!
Angie | Big Bear's Wife says
mmmmm I would make….. chocolate cake OR chocolate cupcakes! Or I might even make chocolate chip cookies… somehow it will involve chocolate! haha (BTW I Love these Carrots!!)
Elizabeth Roby says
I would make a chocolate cake with whipped cream icing!
Caroline says
The first thing I’d make would have to be bread! I don’t currently “own” a stand mixer, but I’m babysitting one for my best friend who moved to Australia for two years. I miss her to pieces, but I’ve been enjoying her mixer SO much! It kneads dough so perfectly! I’d love to have one of my own! On another note…those carrots look crazy delicious! I’m pinning them as soon as I’m done writing this! 🙂
Yelena says
I am going to bake an amazing cake to celebrate my new mixer!! I love the color!!!!!!
kez says
Dough hook = bread!
Leslie says
If I win the mixer I am going to make a german chocolate cake from scratch of course for my grandfather. Its his favorite!
Courtelizab says
The first thing I would make with my mixer is bread! I love fresh bread.
Dolores says
I would make the most awesome GF bread.
[email protected] Soulful Twist says
I would devour that entire pan of carrots without an ounce of guilt! I love that you used pistachios, it adds a good crunch and pretty colors. My only regret is I didn’t see this before Easter it would’ve totally been on the menu!
[email protected] Soulful Twist says
The first thing I would make with the mixer would have to be bread I could finally make it with that hook attachment rather than with my hands 🙂
Leslie Gayle Gooding says
My hand mixer just died and I’ve always wanted a stand mixer!
Erin says
I wish I liked cooked carrots. But topping them with pistachios might just do it for me. Gives it back that crunch. These look gorgeous!
Kim Beaulieu says
Ha, I feel like that about mushrooms. They are so visually stunning, especially some of the more obscure ones. I want to like them so badly. I remember my dad chopping them into teeny tiny little pieces and throwing them in our lasagna. I would sit there for an hour and pick out every single piece. Stubborn to the core.
Aren’t pistachios amazing. I can’t get enough of them. Fabulous on carrots.
Carolyn says
Lemon Bars, Chocolate chip cookies, Banana Bread, the list could go on for forever!
Ann says
I would teach my granddaughter how to bake. So all of my grandchildren could lick the bowl. It wouldn’t matter what we made as long as we did it together.
Gudie says
I would have to start with making a cheesecake, if I were lucky enough to win the mixer. Great contest.
Pam Gurganus says
The first recipe I’d make with my new KitchenAid mixer is a batch of my husband’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies.
Rust says
I would make Emeril’s new york style cheesecake.
Tracy Spangler says
I would make white chocolate dried cranberry cookies. They’re my absolute favorite cookies ( and my family’s too!)
Elizabeth says
The first thing I would make would be a purple velvet cake for my granddaughter’s birthday with buttercream frosting, then the options are endless. Thank you for your wonderful recipes.
KAPP902 says
I love carrots and they are incredibly good for you. I’m gonna try this recipe b/c i seriously needed another way to fix them…so, thanks for this!:) Also this kitchenAid mixer in “Ice” is gorg(eous)!!!! It would really brighten up the place huh? First thing i would make is a cake…chocolate perhaps. thx for your blog and the oppty to win this prize.
Allison (Spontaneous Tomato) says
I’d make a pavlova! I’ve never made one, since I’ve never owned a stand mixer.
Tina Truex says
I would love to make chocolate peanut butter brownies.
stephanie says
I would make éclairs!
Deana Stephens says
German Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream & Coconut Pecan Icing!
Amanda says
The worlds best sourdough bread!