Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots are the best side dish to add to your favourite family roast!
Regular oven roasted carrots are incredibly delicious with just a little garlic and olive oil, but once you’ve tried these Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots, you’ll never go back! Buttery, tender carrots roasted with the best honey garlic butter sauce!
ROASTED CARROTS
Everyone loves honey carrots right? Well, we’ve taken them to the next level, adding a splash of garlic butter to give you the perfect combination of salty and sweet. Using our much-loved Honey Garlic Butter Sauce recipe, we have created the perfect side dish for your next family roast.
HOW TO COOK HONEY CARROTS
It honestly couldn’t get any easier.
- Peel carrots or leave them with skin on: this is personal preference. You don’t need to peel carrots as long as they are washed and scrubbed clean to remove any dirt. For this recipe, we prefer to remove the skin.
- Trim the ends then halve for faster roasting time.
- Drizzle with HALF the sauce. This is where the secret lies to getting maximum flavour out of your honey carrots!
- Use the remaining sauce to drizzle over your honey carrots after roasting and serve! Every mouthful will be sweet and salty, garlic, buttery goodness.
HOW LONG TO ROAST HONEY CARROTS
It takes only 20 minutes to roast honey carrots, depending on your oven. That makes them the perfect side dish to whip up on a busy weekday or a relaxing weekend.
WHAT DO YOU EAT WITH HONEY CARROTS?
These honey garlic butter roasted carrots make the perfect addition to our pork roast with crackling, our lemon garlic roast chicken or our roast beef tenderloin.
Season with a little extra salt and pepper after you’ve drizzled over the remaining sauce for a flavour overload!
Looking for more sides? Try these!
Garlic Parmesan Roasted Carrots
Creamy Garlic Parmesan Brussels Sprouts & Bacon
Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 22, 2018. POST UPDATED WITH NEW IMAGES AND VIDEO.
ROASTED CARROTS ON VIDEO
Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots
Ingredients
- 2 pounds carrots washed and peeled, or unpeeled
- ⅓ cup butter
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- ¼-1/2 teaspoon salt plus more for seasoning
- 1 pinch black pepper cracked
- 2 tablespoons parsley fresh, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet with nonstick cooking oil spray; set aside.
- Trim ends of carrots and cut into thirds.
- Melt butter in a pan or skillet over medium-heat. Pour in honey and cook, while stirring, until completely melted through the butter. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds until fragrant while stirring.
- Add the carrots and allow the sauce to thicken for a further minute, while tossing the carrots through the sauce. Season with salt and pepper.
- Transfer carrots to baking sheet in a single layer so they cook evenly. Toss to evenly coat.
- Roast for 20 minutes, or until carrots are fork-tender. Broil (or grill) for 2-3 minutes on high heat to crisp/char the edges.
- OPTIONAL: Transfer them back into the skillet and allow carrots to simmer in the sauce over high heat for 5 minutes to thicken the sauce into a glaze. *SEE NOTES.
- Season with a little extra salt and pepper if desired. Garnish with parsley.
- Arrange onto serving platter and enjoy!
Amy says
Could you use margarine to make this vegan?
Snn says
Yummy! If I want to make 12 servings would I just increase ingrefients by 3?
Sometimes it doesn’t work out well.
Karina says
Hello!
This should work out just fine to increase by 3. Please let me know how everyone likes it! Thanks for following along!
Jess says
The honey sauce taste AMAZINGA and I haven’t even finished cooking the carrots. Definitely use this one again. Might even add some left over sauce 5 mins before finished cooking.
Karina says
I love the honey sauce as well. I am so glad you do too. Thanks so much for following along with me!! xo
Sam says
Love the recipe so much. It’s what I bring to all the family get togethers and goes down a treat. Have made one ‘secret’ addition which is a big tablespoon of miso added with the garlic along with a splash of mirin to bring some umami to the party : ) means I don’t need to add additional salt since the miso is quite salty already.
Isabel says
I don’t use honey very often so I don’t keep honey on hand – would have to buy it just for this recipe. Is there another ingredient that would work just as well – like brown sugar…
Karina says
Hi Isabel!
Yes, brown sugar should work just fine but it may change the taste and texture. Thanks for commenting and for following along! xo
Kirsten says
Hi, do you think this cnbe made the day before? I’ve got 24 people for Christmas dinner and need to pre prepare as much as possible…. Would they be as good?
Milli says
I unfortunately am down an oven, can I just do it stove top? Thank you for a beautiful recipe!
Karina says
Yes, that would work too! Let me know how it turns out and how you adapted it to the stove top! Thank you for following along with me! XO
Berta Ronda says
My family can’t stop raving about the carrots! Will make again and again!???
Ashley says
These are AMAZING!! Making them right now actually lol.
Eileen says
These look amazing! Can it be done in an Instant Pot and then transferred to oven for the roasting part? Thank you!
Karina says
I have not tried it but that sounds easier and maybe faster. Let me know if you try it! XO
Kayla says
Will baby carrots work as a substitute as a time saver?
Karina says
Yes, it will reduce the timing but should work great! Thanks for making one of my recipes! Enjoy your carrots! XO
Tammy says
Have you made this a day ahead? Trying to get as much as I can done the day before Thanksgiving.
Karina says
Yes, these are great to warm up the day of. Enjoy you carrots! XO
Lesanne says
What is the best way to warm up…microwave 50%. Please..
Karina says
I would microwave for 2-3 minutes then move them around and continue to do that until they are tender. Thanks for following along with me! XO