Carrots with Honey Butter

On January 25, 2007, in Food and Drink, by psu

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.

 

4 Responses to “Carrots with Honey Butter”

  1. Doug says:

    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.

  2. vextorspace says:

    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.

  3. psu says:

    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.

  4. vextorspace says:

    No problem, I don’t mind having to be logged in. And I’m serious about the peas, try them!