20 carrot recipes

Carrot recipes that aren’t just carrot cake

There's lots to do with this humble root vegetable.

Rosemary, mustard and brandy chicken with buttered carrot

Rabbit food? Think again. Carrots bring warmth, earthiness and colour to meal times. We love them warmed with butter, and served in our rosemary and brandy chicken recipe; or roasted in Peter Gilmore’s all-time favourite salad with feta, almonds and sherry caramel. They work wonders in our carrot and parsnip salad, or paired with pickled beetroot in Curtis Stone’s recipe.

And yes, we have carrots in cake form. Try the carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing; for some gentle spice, we recommend the masala carrot cake from Adelaide’s Shirni Parwana.

Warm roast carrot and parsnip salad with rye croûtons

Curtis Stone’s carrot-beetroot salad

Carrots with garlic, ginger, spring onion and smoked chilli butter

Buttermilk carrot cake with spiced caramel

Roast carrot soup with carrot-top pesto

Smoked trout, carrot and quinoa salad with harissa dressing

Carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing

Harissa chicken with carrot rice and quinoa pilaf

Rosemary, mustard and brandy chicken with buttered carrot

Carrot and almond hummus

Carrot, fennel and feta fritters

Ginger carrot cake with salted butterscotch frosting

Lamb and roast carrot sausage rolls

Spiced lamb with warm carrot and freekeh salad

Roast lamb and carrots with buckwheat and carrot top pilaf

Carrot, pecorino and sage fritters

Peter Gilmore’s roasted carrots with feta almonds and sherry caramel

Shirni Parwana’s masala carrot cake

Ester’s roast carrots with honey, sesame and parmesan

Yellow split pea and carrot dhal

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