These Roasted Baby Carrots with Honey and Pistachios are cooked to perfection. It's the perfect side dish for any holiday meal!
Nothing beats roasted carrots, especially when they are drizzled with honey and sprinkled with crushed pistachios.
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
- watching 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 make Balsamic Roasted Baby Carrots quite often. Honestly, I also love them with honey drizzled over them.
Recently I made a batch and decided to toss some pistachio bits over them. They 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!
If you love Roasted Carrots, try these side dishes
- Maple Roasted Acorn Squash with Bacon
- Lemon Roasted Fingerling Potatoes
- Stuffed Acorn Squash
- Parmesan Smashed Potatoes
- Skillet Asparagus with Lime Butter
- Balsamic Roasted Baby Carrots
- Slow Cooker Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- Fried Smashed Potatoes with Onions and Meyer Lemon Dressing
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Roasted Carrots with Honey and Pistachios
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs baby carrots tops removed, peeled if desired
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 dash coarse salt
- 1 dash pepper if desired
- 2 tbsp honey
- ¼ cup chopped pistachios more or less to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degree F.
- Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper, if you don't have any just spray it liberally with non-stick cooking spray.
- Rinse your carrots and pat dry.
- In a medium sized glass bowl place the carrots inside.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remove from oven. Transfer to a bowl. Sprinkle with more coarse salt, pepper if desired. Toss the pistachios over top.
- Serve with a big old honey and pistachio loving smile!
Notes
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Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
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
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
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
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
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
I would make chocolate chip cookies
Joan
I think I'd make a cake.
Lisa Brown
I would make dough for oatmeal cookies
lori
I would go crazy making candy candy candy
Sue
A giant batch of everything cookies. The batter is too stiff for my old hands to stir any more.
Kim McCallie
I would make a pound cake.
Goreti
The first recipe I would use it for is Peach and Roasted Cinnamon Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Sugar . That recipe sounds amazing.
KT
I LOVE Carrots! Cooking these tonight!
Ramona W
Perfect recipe for today!! Happy Easter. 🙂
Jenn
Vanilla cake with fresh strawberry buttercream!
Chris
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
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
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
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
Cakes and buttercream forever 😉
Lorry
Cheesecake!
Charlene P
Would love to make chocolate crown cookies and pizza dough
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
I LOVE THE ICE COLOR KA STAND MIXER!!!
Kim...you know I'd make EVERYYYYTHING!!!! Probs cookies first though....let's be real!