15 Favorite Carrot Recipes

Carrots’ natural sweetness shines in this recipe from Urban Roots Farm in Springfield, Missouri, so shop your farmers market for the freshest ones, even if they aren’t heirloom.

Roasted Carrots 

These sweet oven-roasted carrots are a perfect complement to a holiday menu, but they're easy enough to be a weeknight side. This comfort food recipe comes from Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri.

Cinnamon Carrots with Maple Thyme Butter

This hummus—with carrots, garbanzo beans and a hint of lemon— makes a healthy snack dip, wrap spread or potluck dish. 

Carrot Hummus

Use honey to bring forth the sweet notes in everyone’s favorite root vegetable. Fresh chives add pretty flecks of green into the yogurt dip.

Sweet Curry Carrots with Chive Yogurt

White dips don't have to be humdrum. In this recipe from The Vegetable Butcher cookbook, Cara Mangini sautes grated carrot, pine nuts and garlic in olive oil, then stirs the mixture into Greek yogurt.

Turkish Carrot Yogurt Dip  

Need a side dish in a hurry? Just melt together butter and orange marmalade, and toss with tender steamed carrots to create this super-easy side.

Orange-Glazed Baby Carrots

Combining cinnamony pumpkin-pie spice with fresh mint lends North African flavor in a flash. Try this simple salad as a side dish to grilled chicken.

Moroccan Carrot Slaw

Goat cheese and chives top golden skillet-cooked mushrooms and cooked carrots in this recipe from Sarah Stegner of Prairie Grass Cafe in Chicago. Homemade honey-mustard vinaigrette adds a pleasing tang.

Crisp Portobello Mushroom and Spring Carrot Salad

The carrots from chef Edward Lee’'s cookbook Smoke and Pickles are sweet, buttery—and, yes, boozy.

Bourbon-Ginger Glazed Carrots

Chicago chef John Shields' vegetable dish is sweet, bitter, tangy and completely beautiful—perfect for serving with a special-occasion roast.

Carrots with Chicories and Brown Butter Vinaigrette

Purchased shredded carrots and bottled minced ginger and garlic keep prep time to a minimum in this recipe.

Pea Pod and Carrot Stir-Fry

Rich carrot soup gets a tangy edge thanks to a secret ingredient: parsnips. Finish with a squeeze of lemon.

Carrot Soup

Toss carrots, fresh peas and green onions in honey vinaigrette for this crunchy veggie salad.

Carrot Ribbon Salad

Combine caramelized onions, ginger, carrots and a sweet potato for this creamy, pretty soup.

Ginger-Carrot Soup

Combine carrots with pineapple, mango, peanuts and cilantro for a colorful side dish that goes well with grilled meats.

Carrot, Pineapple and Mango Salad 

Our Five-Herb Roasted Carrots and Potatoes recipe, developed by the Midwest Living® Test Kitchen, uses fresh chives, oregano, parsley, rosemary and sage to make the veggies fragrant and delicious. The roasting temperature also brings out the flavor in the vegetables.

Five-Herb Roasted Carrots and Potatoes