Alright y’all, time to prove I eat vegetables.
A person can only eat so much kale mk, even if you came around to it like I did after years of side-eye to kale fanatics(thanks Bey!). These carrots are great because there’s very little prep work and few ingredients, they look really nice and colorful, and carrots are freaking awesome. You just braise them in water, a little butter, and a little miso if you please and they come out sweet, simple and delicious.

That being said, they do take TIME: at least 30 mins. I usually start these first and then make the rest of my meal so by the time I’m done with everything the water has simmered off on it’s own and the carrots are tender.

This is great with a grilled steak and a pile of sweet mashed potatoes to round it out!

Recipe

1. Peel and trim your carrots.
2. In a big wide saute pan large enough to hold all your carrots in one layer, melt the butter and miso together on medium to dissolve the miso. I once did this thyme instead of the miso and it was also excellent. The point is this is where you can add a little twist.
3. Add the carrots and let them roll around for a couple minutes in the butter, but you don’t want them to brown AT ALL.
4. Add enough water to cover the carrots. I let it come to a boil while I make a parchment cover.
5. This is the arts and crafts part: take a piece of parchment paper and cut it in a circle that will fit in your pan. Fold the circle in half to cut out a circle of the middle so that there’s a hole. In the end it looks like a misshapen donut. Do you HAVE to do this? I dunno I haven’t tried it without it yet. If your carrots are floating on the water, definitely do it. It not, just half-covering with a lid may work.
6. Turn the pan to medium-low or throw the whole thing in the oven and cook until the carrots are extremely tender and you can stick a fork into it with absolutely no resistance. This is not a FAST process! Leave them along for 30 mins at least! If at this point there is still a lot of water in the pan, turn the heat up and boil off the rest of the water.
7. Once the water has boiled off, you should be left with a shiny glaze. Roll your carrots around in the glaze and enjoy!