Roasted Carrots Amongst Chilli & Pomegranate

December 16, 2018

Here's some other recipe from Simple, something I picked out to boost a repast of leftovers. It's carrots, roasted fast together with hot inward a dressing of butter together with chilli, together with then finished off amongst a mash of citrus juice together with a scattering of pomegranate seeds. 

Its simplicity lies inward its capacity for substitutions: nosotros lacked harissa but constitute regular pureed chilli, brutal dorsum on lime juice inward the refrigerator instead of buying a lemon. And though it's non vegan equally described, vegetable stone oil together with maple/golden syrup are obvious alternatives that would larn inward so. Pomegranates aren't precisely pantry ingredients or easily substitutable, but they should ever hold out considered an optional Ottolenghi flourish.

We enjoyed this hence much (and had hence many leftover pomegranate seeds!) that I made it twice inward a week, successfully impressing some visiting identify unit of measurement on the 2nd round. It's a prissy reminder that it's sometimes worth adding an extra v minutes together with catch of household ingredients to roasting veges; something nosotros produce weekly amongst merely tabular array salt together with pepper.

Roasted carrots amongst chilli & pomegranate
(slightly adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi's Simple)

800g babe carrots
20g butter
two teaspoons cumin seeds
two teaspoons honey
two tablespoons rose harissa or other chilli paste
1 tablespoon olive oil
generous mash of lemon or lime juice
seeds of one-half a pomegranate
salt

Preheat an oven to 230°C.

Wash together with cut the carrots; while them lengthways if they're real thick. Place them inward a large baking dish.

Melt the butter inward a small-scale saucepan, together with then plow off the heat. Whisk inward the cumin seeds, honey, chilli glue together with olive oil. Pour this dressing over the carrots together with toss them unopen to to evenly coat them.

Roast the carrots for near fifteen minutes, until they're showtime to chocolate-brown but yet firm. Squeeze over the lemon/lime juice together with scatter over the pomegranate seeds, together with then serve.