Tonight my brain can only handle writing down a small recipe. I’ve never had much use for carrots outside of using them as a partner to potatoes in stew. But here’s a fun way to do them. I must have stolen the recipe from someone, but I can’t remember who. My wife says it was Bittman, so I must have changed something because I don’t like Bittman.
Start with about a cup or two of cut up carrots. Not too big, not too small. Steam these in a basket for about 10-15min, or until they get tender but not too soft.
Now get out your frying pan. Put in some butter and a bit of oil, whatever you usually do. Toss in the carrots, mix it around. Add salt and pepper, mix it around. Finally, drizzle a small bit of fresh honey over the top. We found honey at the farmer’s market this summer, which inspired me to try this.
Let everything stew a bit, then toss the result on a plate. If you do it right, you should get the nice sweetness and softness of carrots in stew without the need to spend three hours making stew.
These are especially good if you mix in sugar-snap peas. You don’t want them to stew though, they go in just before the end.
Ok, I now am officially registered so should be able to leave this comment now! Carrots in honey-butter are improved by the addition of sugar-snap peas. You don’t want them very cooked though so should add them right before taking them off of the stove.
Sorry. Your first comment got pushed to the moderate queue but the mail notifications for that queue go somewhere else so I didn’t notice it until this morning.
No problem, I don’t mind having to be logged in. And I’m serious about the peas, try them!