This week we’ve got a lovely Christmas recipe for you. As we all know, carrots are the perfect ingredient to accompany our Christmas meal. This week we’re preparing them combining some very unique ingredients: orange blossom honey and grape molasses! We got our inspiration from our Valentine’s Dinner Experience (our first for 2020), in which our talented chef Lida is making a honey carrot soup. Yes, honey and carrots are very good friends!
In this recipe we added grape molasses, an ingredient that adds depth and balances the sweetness of the honey. It is made purely from grape must. A staple in my own kitchen, I highly recommend it!
So let’s get cooking. And have a warm and peaceful Christmas everyone!
Serves 6 as a side
1kg carrots
50g cranberries
5 tbps olive oil
3 tbsp orange blossom honey
3 tbsp grape molasses
1 large orange, zest and juice
salt (to taste)
Preheat the oven at 180C
Slice the carrots diagonally in uniform thin slices. They will shrink a bit while cooking, so make quite big slices.
Place them in a large baking tray, in one layer.
Sprinkle the cranberries.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the olive oil, honey, grape molasses, orange zest and juice. Season with salt.
Drizzle over the carrots and toss well everything together.
Roast in the oven until tender.
