Roasted potatoes and carrots is a delicious dish packed with flavors. Crispy on the outsides, soft on the insides, covered with an amazing garlic butter flavor, and surprisingly easy to prepare are some of the things that make this dish the perfect side.
Why choose roasted potatoes and carrots?
Preparing roasted potatoes and carrots has many benefits. The dish is rich in flavors, has amazing textures, needs little supervision while cooking, and the ingredients are inexpensive.
Rich flavor
This roasted potatoes and carrots recipe uses a delicious garlic butter sauce with dried herbs for coating.
Sumptuous textures
The crispy potato skins combined with the amazing soft insides and the tender slices of carrots make this dish delicious and tasty.
Little supervision is needed
The great thing about roasted potatoes and carrots is that once you cut the vegetables, coat them, and place them in the oven, you’ll be free to do almost anything while they bake.
Inexpensive
Not all amazingly delicious meals come with a high price tag. This dish only requires a few inexpensive items, but it gives that fine dining vibe, especially with the garlic butter sauce used for coating.
Ingredients needed to make roasted potatoes and carrots
So you've already guessed the two main ingredients of this dish. Let's take a look at all the other ingredients needed to make roasted potatoes and carrots. This way you can figure out what you already have in your pantry and what you might need to add to your next shopping list.
Potatoes
Carrots
Unsalted butter
Garlic
Salt
Dried thyme
Black pepper
fresh parsley for garnishing as desired.
Ingredient notes for roasted potatoes and carrots
We have already covered the ingredients needed to make roasted potatoes and carrots. In this section we will look at how the ingredients blend together to make this superb dish.
Creamer potatoes
The recipe calls for creamer potatoes, but you could also use baby potatoes too. You'll get that crispy texture on the outside that blankets the soft and mild inner pieces.
Carrots
You may wash and slice regular carrots for this recipe, but if you want to save a little time while preparing this dish, you may also use pre-cut baby carrots.
Butter Sauce
For the butter sauce, a combination of unsalted butter, salt, black pepper, dried herbs, and the Original Garlic Butter Sauce are mixed together and used to coat the carrots and potatoes.
If you don't have any unsalted butter, omit or reduce the amount of salt to ensure that you don't end up with your potatoes and carrots being too salty.
The Crabby Bags Original Garlic Butter Sauce is a nice blend that helps to create that buttery garlic flavor for the potatoes. If you are a garlic butter fan, you can go ahead and splurge with this ingredient or even replace the butter, salt, and other dried herbs.
Garnish
Fresh parsley adds a dash of color and is used for garnishing.
How to cook roasted potatoes and carrots?
To cook roasted potatoes and carrots, you'll just need to follow three simple steps. Here is a look at what you'll do in each step. If you need the cooking instructions and the measurement for the ingredients, you may go to the recipe card below.
Step 1
Preparing
The first step you'll follow to make your roasted potatoes and carrots is to preheat the oven and prepare the vegetables. You will need to cut potatoes in half and slice the carrots diagonally. This way your carrot slices will look like ovals instead of circles.
After cutting the potatoes and the carrots, you'll place them in a large bowl, then turn your attention to sauce making.
Step 2
Coating and Baking
Combine all the other ingredients (except the parsley, which will be used for garnishing) in a small bowl. Use the garlic butter sauce to coat the potatoes and carrots by spooning the sauce on them and then tossing them in the large bowl.
After tossing the vegetables, arrange them on a lined baking sheet, place them in the preheated oven, and bake for about thirty-five to forty-five minutes.
Step 3
Coat, Garnish, and Serve
After removing the roasted potatoes and garlic from the oven, you may drizzle another coating of the garlic butter sauce onto them and then garnish with the parsley before serving.
Recipe tips for roasted potatoes and carrots
Roasted potatoes and carrots is a very straightforward dish to prepare. However, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind to make sure that this dish turns out perfect.
Let's take a look at a few tips that will help you to make this dish sumptuous and glitch-free.
Potato size
The size of the potatoes may make or break this dish. When cutting your potatoes, make sure that they are all the same size so that they can cook evenly.
Having uniform sizes for all the potatoes will ensure they all cook at the same time instead of having smaller pieces being ready way before larger pieces.
Space evenly on baking tray
Spacing the potatoes and carrots evenly on the baking tray is very critical. This will allow all the pieces of vegetables on the baking tray to cook with that nice crisp on the outside.
Clumping the veggies together may result in unevenness in the textures or even a slightly mushy texture, especially for carrots that are covered and don't get direct exposure to the heat in the oven.
Even coating of garlic butter sauce
If you want every single bite of your roasted potatoes and carrots to taste well-seasoned with the garlic butter sauce, then you have to be diligent when coating the vegetables.
Toss the vegetables to make sure that each piece comes in contact with the coating and is properly seasoned. Not doing this may cause you to end up with bland bits of carrots and potatoes, which you definitely don't want.
Save time
Using pre-cut baby carrots may save you a little bit of time in the preparation stage. If you'll be doing this dish when you have little to no time, then you'll definitely appreciate not having to slice the carrots.
Serving ideas for roasted potatoes and carrots
There are many serving ideas that will make your roasted potatoes and carrots a hit at the dinner table. Chicken, fish, beef, and a number of other protein dishes will pair well with this delicious side recipe dish.
A number of vegetable salad dishes and desserts may be served with these buttery roasted vegetables to make them even more amazing.
I hope that as you prepare these hands of easy-to-make roasted potatoes and carrots, you will savor the experience and in turn enjoy every buttery bite.