Carrot recipes side dish: 59 photos
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Although, carrots flavor profiles can change slightly depending on its size, color, and how it was grown. Typically though, if you want to enhance a carrot's flavor, they normally pair well with things such as ginger, garlic, honey, sugar, maple, and citrus fruits like lemon and orange.
Our Best Ideas for Carrots. Turn them into a salad or slaw to serve as part of a healthy, weeknight dinner. Or puree them for a flavorful soup. You've been growing carrots in your garden and have an abundance? Bake a carrot cake — just don't forget to save the leafy green tops for a pesto or chimichurri.
Seven ways to use up leftover carrots
- Store them right. Keep carrots in a perforated bag in the fridge. ...
- Make them go further. Unless they're very old, carrots can just be scrubbed rather than peeled. ...
- Whizz into a drink. ...
- Grate into a burger. ...
- Make a comforting soup. ...
- Get baking. ...
- Mash them up.
Glazed carrots coated in a mixture of brown sugar and butter are a versatile side dish you can serve alongside a weeknight meatloaf, a Sunday ham, or your Thanksgiving turkey. These caramelized carrots are a definite kid-pleaser but they're elegant enough to impress the adults as well!
I always recommend planting chives, garlic, onions, leeks, or shallots next to your carrots and leafy greens. The reason being, these members of the onion plant family have a strong scent that repels pests like aphids and carrot flies.