This is a delicious and easy way to roast carrots as a side dish with a paddle-type hot air fryer. Boiled carrots just won’t cut it after this recipe.

You can make this a day ahead even and reheat in microwave.

Makes 3 cups / 400 g / 14 oz in total.

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Roasted Carrots

Prep time:  10 mins

Cook time:  25 mins

Total time:  35 mins

Serves: 4. Makes 3 cups / 400 g.

Serving size: ¾ cup / 100 g

Calories: 84

Fat: 2.9

An interesting way to present carrots as a tasty side vegetable with a light, healthy glaze. For paddle-type hot air fryers.

Ingredients

• 500 g / 1 pound carrots
• 1 teaspoon herbes de provence
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 4 tablespoons (60 ml / 2 oz) orange juice

Instructions

1. Wash and chunk the carrots; do not peel.
2. Put carrots in pan of your hot air fryer. Add the dried herb; pour the oil on top the dried herb (so that it doesn't get blown around.)
3. Roast for about 20 minutes.
4. Add the orange juice, roast for a final 5 minutes.
5. Serve hot.

Notes

500 g / 1 pound of carrots is about 4 cups of carrot chunks

4 tablespoons of orange juice is the juice of half a medium-sized orange.

Basket-type hot air fryer directions (such as a Philips AirFryer™):

Put oil and herbs in a large bowl. Toss the carrots in it. Put in machine. Roast for 20 minutes at 160 C / 320 F. Toss. Raise temperature to 180 C / 350 F. Roast for another 6 minutes. Take out. Put in large bowl with the orange juice, toss. Return to machine for a final 6 minutes of roasting.

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I used heritage carrots, but you can use any carrots. If you use baby carrots, you can probably just chuck them into the pan as they are, with no further chopping.

Use whatever herb mixture you want.

Instead of the orange juice, you could use lemon juice, or just omit.

Drizzling the oil on top the dried herb helps prevent the herb being blown around

The orange juice freshens the taste and glazes the carrots, but you can omit.

After just 25 minutes, these are fork-tender and toothsome with a roasted, slightly sweet flavour.

Nutrition

4 servings of  3/4 cup (100 g / 3.5 oz) each. Each serving is 84 calories / 2 Weight Watchers PointsPlus®. (The recipe has 9 points in total.)

* Nutrition info provided by http://caloriecount.about.com

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