Tag: Salt

Roasted Carrots

Roasted Carrots
Roasted Carrots

I love roasting vegetables. It makes them a wonderful texture, a little crispy on the edges, condenses the flavors, often makes them a little sweeter. Oh man, it’s just so good. One of my favorite veggies to roast is carrots. I love to toss them with a little olive oil, honey, and salt. It brings out the sweetness and makes them caramelize a little more.

Roasted Carrots

Ingredients

Carrots
Honey
Oil (preferably olive, but vegetable oil is fine)
Salt

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees (or 400, depending on how quickly you want them to cook). Peel and cut your carrots into bite size pieces (see picture below to see about how big I cut mine). Toss them in oil, honey, and sprinkle with salt. Measurements of each kind of depend on how you want them to taste. You want them to be evenly covered in oil. If you think you might want them sweeter, do quite a bit of honey, or not if you don’t. I know it’s kind of vague, but I promise you’ll just be able to tell depending on how many carrots you’re cooking and what you want them to taste like.

How long you cook them for is another guessing game. Firstly, it depends on how crispy/burnt you want them. I like mine to be fairly dark at the edges, so I roast them for about an hour at 375. But sometimes more and sometimes less. Second, it depends on how many carrots you’re roasting. You don’t want them too crowded on the pan otherwise they’ll do more of a steaming kind of thing. Also, you want to toss them about halfway through your cook time.

So this posting was really more of a “carrots tossed in this stuff and roasted are good” than an exact recipe, but it’s worth it just for anyone to discover the joys of this dish. Experiment a little and find the right amounts, temperature, and cook time for you! I promise, it’s worth it.

Sriracha Salt

Sriracha Salt

Today is my dad’s birthday! In honor of this, I will reveal to you all what I got him for his birthday.

He recently took a trip to New York and went to eat at David Chang’s Momofuku restaurant. He love love loved it, so my sister and I bought him the Momofuku cookbook. It looked beautiful, and I hope that the next time I’m there he and I get to cook something out of it.

Anyway, he and his girlfriend also really like 2 things: salt and spicy food. On my trip up to surprise him for his birthday, they informed me that they’ve been adding hot sauce to their already hot salsa. It’s a little pathetic. Anyway, I found this recipe for sriracha salt on pinterest (it’s actually from the new Sriracha cookbook though) and thought it would make a good little homemade gift.

It’s incredibly simple. You’ll need sriracha and, you guessed it, salt.

Sriracha Salt

Ingredients

5 tsp sriracha
1/2 cup table salt

Ingredients

In a bowl, combine sriracha and salt in a bowl and stir well. Spread the mixture out on a sheet of wax paper on a pan. Let it dry for 1-2 days. When it dries, it clumps up, so I broke it up everytime I noticed it getting hard and clumpy. Then I put it into a neat little jar!

I think it’d tasted good on raw vegetables, especially carrots, and also anything that you think needs a little spice and a little salt!