Roasted Carrots with Thyme

This is a simple side dish, but it’s low calorie and it turned out delicious when I made it last night, so I decided to share.  My one regret is that I don’t have a better picture.  By the way, this recipe was inspired by one I made using the home chef delivery service.

Ingredients:

• 8 carrots, cleaned and peeled
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 Tsp dried thyme
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450.
2. Cut carrots on the bias (diagonally) into slices 1/2 inch thick.
3. In an oven safe skillet, warm your olive oil over medium high heat.
4. Once oil is hot, add carrots.  Allow carrots to cook, turning them periodically for about 4-5 minutes, until the bottoms begin to char just a bit, or turn golden brown.
5. Once carrots have a little char on them, add salt and pepper, and thyme.  Mix in seasonings.
6. Transfer oven safe skillet to a hot oven, and bake 17 minutes at 450 degrees.
7. When removing the hot skillet from the oven, be very careful.  Handle will be very, very hot.

5 servings= 65 calories per serving

Tags: baked carrots, charred carrots, how to cook carrots, roasted carrots