life lesson #347: anything roasted in fat tastes good
If you have kids/significant others at home who won’t eat their vegetables, this recipe is for them.
Side note: I’m baffled by people who airly proclaim: “I don’t like vegetables.”
Really?! Every single one of the vegetables on God’s green earth, cooked every conceivable way and you don’t like any of them?? Really?
peeled, chopped and ready for action
Not me. Right up there in my list of favourite foods are brussel sprouts, broccoli, sweet potato and carrot.
Carrot mashed, steamed, boiled or roasted.
carrots are good for your skin, eyes, hair, nails and adrenals
And that leads me to these excellent fries (or chips as I’d say at home).
Just a touch of coconut oil, some thyme and some seasoning….voila, things that look like fries but without the transfats, GM potatoes and MSG flavouring that seems to be a prerequisite of fries these days.
Easy Carrot Fries (serves 2)
- 4 large carrots
- 2 tbsps coconut oil
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Peel your carrots and then cut them into long, thin batons.
- In a bowl, drizzle over the oil and stir until the batons are coated.
- Sprinkle over the thyme, salt and pepper. Mix well.
- Turn out onto a lined baking tray and bake at 400 for 20 mins.
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love this, gonna try these soon
Reblogged this on cadesertvoice and commented:
You are in for a treat with these easy Carrot Fries! I love carrots steam, boiled, raw, sauteed…but BAKED is great too. Sweet, it’s a no-guilt treat anytime.
Yum, my dear!! I could scoop up the whole panful!
YUM! I love sweet potato fries and have seen a few recipes for roasted carrots of some sort, but haven’t tried any myself. I always buy carrots to use in broth but rarely cook them up on their own. This looks like a great way to prevent a few from quietly shriveling up in the fridge drawers when I’m not paying attention.
Yum
Gotta try this-sounds really fabulous!
I love veggies but cooked carrots are not my fav. However this looks great so I’m going to try this out!
Great! Hope it converts you!
What a great idea!
Roasted carrots this way are amazing. Sometimes we add a splash of balsamic. Yum.
Great idea, I think we will be trying these one day. Thx!
OMG This is delicious. I MUST cook more!!!
These look great! We are both huge carrot fans and will have to give these a go!
Ay chance I can substitute a different oil?
Sure Rita! I’d stay away from olive oil because it’s no longer a healthy choice at high temperatures but next best thing would be avocado oil, palm oil or melted butter/ghee/lard. Hope that helps!
So yummy! My family thought they were sweet potatoes!
Yay! Glad you liked ‘em Erika (next time, try sweet potatos and tell your family it’s carrots….that’ll really mess with their heads). Thanks for coming back and sharing
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Reblogged this on THE RESPONSIBLE CONSUMER and commented:
Yum! Yum! Yummy! Totally vegan. Oven fried. Carrot Goodness: generous amounts of beta-carotenes, Vitamin A, minerals, and anti-oxident. Nice job with this, Cat. Thank you.
thank you for sharing! Glad you like and yep, it’s chock-full of goodness
I loved these! However, I was expecting them to crisp up and mine did not. Were they supposed to crisp up at all?
It depends how long you are cooking them for…mine weren’t especially crispy. If you want a bit of crunch, you might try broiling/grilling.
Thanks for replying
these were just spectacularly delicious! I also threw in a few pods of raw garlic with the carrots n we fought over who gets the roasted garlic 
garlic makes everything better, no?
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