Name: Honey roasted carrots and beets
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 5 carrots; 4 beets; 2 tbsp olive oil (or oil of choice); 1/4 tsp salt (or more to taste at the end); 2 tbsp honey

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Honey roasted carrots and beets are a beautiful and delicious fall seasonal side dish. With minimal ingredients, it’s an inexpensive side dish for a weeknight dinner, but also worthy to accompany your Thanksgiving table.

For Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, I roasted a tray of carrots and beets and drizzled them with honey and my family loved them! So much so that my dad and step mom asked me how to make the honey roasted carrots and beets and began making them at home on weeknights.

Just about every vegetable tastes good roasted, and when you take naturally sweet vegetables like carrots and beets and drizzle them with a little honey, you just make your tastebuds dance a little bit more.

A few nights ago, after making them for dinner to accompany crispy chicken thighs, my daughter said, “simple food really is the best.” I whole-heartedly agree! Like I always say, it doesn’t have to be complicated or fancy to be delicious.

Simple ingredients

beets: Look for firm beets with nice green tops. You can even cook the tops if you are feeling extra frugal.
carrots: Look for firm carrots with a bright orange color. If you buy them with green tops attached, you can use them for carrot top pesto.
olive oil
salt
honey

This recipe is simple. Really the hardest part is peeling and chopping the beets. They can be a bit of a pain because that gorgeous red color does indeed stain your hands and cutting board. You can use gloves if you’re afraid of staining, but I personally don’t mind. The stain comes off in a couple of washes.

If you find it a pain to wash, peel and chop veggies at dinner time, they can always be peeled and chopped ahead of time the day before or in the morning. Store in an airtight container or plastic bag until ready to use.