Merry Christmas food tubers I can tell
you things are starting to get very
festive here in the river college
kitchen and today I’m going to show you
one of my favorite winter rooty dishes
my sesame roast carrots here I’ve got
just about a kilo of the finest winter
carrot now these are the big fellows
full of crunch and flavor I can use as
many as it takes to pretty much fill up
my roasting tray but I don’t want to
overcrowd it or they won’t get crispy
and caramelized in just the way that I
want when it comes to chopping chunky
carrots for roasting rough and Ready’s
definitely the way no perfect circle’s
no geometric battens I want quirky
angles and that’s where you get the
crispy corners and the lovely toffee ish
flavors I just rotate it in a fairly
random way and look at those lovely
pieces so keep it random food tubers it
makes for more interesting sizes and
shapes it looks better and it tastes
better look at that with the winter
sunlight crashing through onto my
carrots they already look incredibly
appetizing we’re roasting so we need a
little bit of oil and I’m using the
finest Devon culinary rapeseed oil the
sweet flavor of the rapeseed goes really
well with the carrots sesame seeds are a
really good addition to roast roots of
any kind but particularly carrots so I’m
going to be really generous with them
and now just a bit of salt and pepper
and they’re going to go straight into a
fairly hot happen about 180 degrees for
45 minutes or so
actually I could leave my sesame roast
carrots right there when they come out
of the oven they’re going to be
delicious and they make a perfect side
dish but because we’re getting festive
I’m going to build up a whole extra
layer of flavors to mingle with them
when they come out of the oven and these
flavors really are going to be quite
Christmassy I’ve got an orange here and
I going to start with some of its zest
and I want the juice such a big fella in
fact that half is probably going to do
me Trickle that into my sauce pan and
into the juice goes a generous few
handfuls of raisins about a hundred
grams and a teaspoon of honey as soon as
it starts to bubble and the honey is
dissolved turn off the heat that hot
liquid will be quickly absorbed into
those plump raisins
there’s a lovely sizzle going on there
they’ve had about 15 minutes maybe 20
time to give them a little turn look at
that you can see now just the beginnings
of the most fantastic color back in the
oven to finish them off I reckon my
carrots are just seconds away from
perfect roastiness so I’m just going to
run my blade across a little pile of
flat leaf parsley
I don’t want dust so it’s really just a
light loose chopping I’m betting we’re
going to be right on it oh look at that
the orange the brown and the nearly
black it’s that perfect roastiness the
smell is incredible I’m just going to
make myself a little portion plate out
sprinkling of toasted arms raises the
parsley is great at this point because
it puts some nice herby fresh grassy
flavours back into something that’s
starting to become quite sweet so just a
sprinkling and last of all the syrupy
juices and the raisins and just look at
that
my sesame roast carrots that would be
the perfect side dish for any festive
roast being a turkey a goose maybe a nut
roast have actually become the stars of
their own little Christmas show in
what’s come together as a delicious
little vegetable vegetarian if you like
starter so elegant and above all just
delicious well I reckon the humble
carrot has never been so Christmassy and
rarely so tasty
if you agree you can give us a thumbs up
you can comment in the box below and of
course you can subscribe to the river
cottage food Tube channel and don’t
forget that this and many other
delicious festive recipes can all be
found in River cottage light and easy
merry christmas food tubers time to tuck
in
you
you things are starting to get very
festive here in the river college
kitchen and today I’m going to show you
one of my favorite winter rooty dishes
my sesame roast carrots here I’ve got
just about a kilo of the finest winter
carrot now these are the big fellows
full of crunch and flavor I can use as
many as it takes to pretty much fill up
my roasting tray but I don’t want to
overcrowd it or they won’t get crispy
and caramelized in just the way that I
want when it comes to chopping chunky
carrots for roasting rough and Ready’s
definitely the way no perfect circle’s
no geometric battens I want quirky
angles and that’s where you get the
crispy corners and the lovely toffee ish
flavors I just rotate it in a fairly
random way and look at those lovely
pieces so keep it random food tubers it
makes for more interesting sizes and
shapes it looks better and it tastes
better look at that with the winter
sunlight crashing through onto my
carrots they already look incredibly
appetizing we’re roasting so we need a
little bit of oil and I’m using the
finest Devon culinary rapeseed oil the
sweet flavor of the rapeseed goes really
well with the carrots sesame seeds are a
really good addition to roast roots of
any kind but particularly carrots so I’m
going to be really generous with them
and now just a bit of salt and pepper
and they’re going to go straight into a
fairly hot happen about 180 degrees for
45 minutes or so
actually I could leave my sesame roast
carrots right there when they come out
of the oven they’re going to be
delicious and they make a perfect side
dish but because we’re getting festive
I’m going to build up a whole extra
layer of flavors to mingle with them
when they come out of the oven and these
flavors really are going to be quite
Christmassy I’ve got an orange here and
I going to start with some of its zest
and I want the juice such a big fella in
fact that half is probably going to do
me Trickle that into my sauce pan and
into the juice goes a generous few
handfuls of raisins about a hundred
grams and a teaspoon of honey as soon as
it starts to bubble and the honey is
dissolved turn off the heat that hot
liquid will be quickly absorbed into
those plump raisins
there’s a lovely sizzle going on there
they’ve had about 15 minutes maybe 20
time to give them a little turn look at
that you can see now just the beginnings
of the most fantastic color back in the
oven to finish them off I reckon my
carrots are just seconds away from
perfect roastiness so I’m just going to
run my blade across a little pile of
flat leaf parsley
I don’t want dust so it’s really just a
light loose chopping I’m betting we’re
going to be right on it oh look at that
the orange the brown and the nearly
black it’s that perfect roastiness the
smell is incredible I’m just going to
make myself a little portion plate out
sprinkling of toasted arms raises the
parsley is great at this point because
it puts some nice herby fresh grassy
flavours back into something that’s
starting to become quite sweet so just a
sprinkling and last of all the syrupy
juices and the raisins and just look at
that
my sesame roast carrots that would be
the perfect side dish for any festive
roast being a turkey a goose maybe a nut
roast have actually become the stars of
their own little Christmas show in
what’s come together as a delicious
little vegetable vegetarian if you like
starter so elegant and above all just
delicious well I reckon the humble
carrot has never been so Christmassy and
rarely so tasty
if you agree you can give us a thumbs up
you can comment in the box below and of
course you can subscribe to the river
cottage food Tube channel and don’t
forget that this and many other
delicious festive recipes can all be
found in River cottage light and easy
merry christmas food tubers time to tuck
in
you
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