Honey Carrots With a Hint of Ginger

Recipe By Jennifer V
Rating
Published Jun 19th
Prep 5m Cook 20m Additional - Ready In 25m
Servings 8 servings Calories 393.4

Baby carrots are simmered in a buttery ginger sauce sweetened with honey. A great accompaniment to a chicken dinner.

Recipe Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cups butter
  • ¾ cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ⅓ cup lemon juice
  • 2 pounds baby carrots

Cooking Directions

  1. 1 Combine the butter, honey, ginger and lemon juice in a large pot. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Add carrots and reduce heat to medium. Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until carrots are tender. Simmer longer if you desire more tender carrots.

Nutrition Facts

  • Calories 393.4
  • Carbohydrate 36.5 g
  • Cholesterol 76.3 mg
  • Fat 28.9 g
  • Fiber 3.4 g
  • Protein 1.2 g
  • Saturated Fat 18.2 g
  • Sodium 293.1 mg
  • Sugar 31.7 g

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Reviews

  1. Maxicat68 May 12, 2013 08:37 PM
    Would make it again possibly. Could have been that the honey was not as good as it could have been.
  2. Chel Jun 25, 2011 01:55 PM
    these are great...extremely sweet. loved the ginger in them.
  3. dfwenigma Feb 23, 2011 06:38 PM
    Everyone loved these - they were a winner!
  4. Laura Cartwright-Diekevers Feb 11, 2011 06:17 PM
    I really liked these carrots and so did my family. I tweaked it a little and used 3 lbs of baby carrots and also diced up a sweet onion and cooked it with it. I cooked them for about 1/2 hour. So delicious!
  5. WatsonGrl May 3, 2010 09:02 PM
    These carrors were tasty but I think 1 stick of butter would have been plenty.
  6. yum-me Nov 24, 2009 09:54 PM
    My five year old eats carrots this way! And I love it too.
  7. cooksalittle Apr 10, 2009 12:37 AM
    This was really good. I left carrots to simmer longer than 10 minutes. After taking them out of the liquid I boiled it down to a glaze and poured over the carrots. One guest said it was like candy. (Note: I used olive oil instead of butter for a non-dairy option. It worked great.)
  8. bratkitty Dec 9, 2007 05:30 PM
    I subbed lime juice for the lemon. The result was quite delicious. It can go well with almost anything also.
  9. Janene Kingsley Cook Nov 26, 2007 01:15 AM
    These where really good. I made with fresh squeezed orange juice instead of lemon juice but it never caramelized. It was to much liquid. But the end result was tender sweet good flavored carrots that where very pretty on the plate. I server with rotisserie pork loin green beans and potatoes. Our guest loved the - Read more ...
  10. WOODSTCK Sep 12, 2007 11:12 PM
    Cooked an extra 10 min but very good - simple ingredients - easy and fast
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