Looking for the best ways to eat carrots? These bright orange, healthy veggies are good for so much more than just your eyesight, like the old mantra. They’re packed full of vitamins and nutrients! Luckily: they’re also delicious. And there are so many more ways to eat them than raw carrots sticks! Here we’ve compiled all the best carrot recipes in two groups: first, recipes where carrots are the star! Think: carrot soup, roasted carrots, carrot cake cookies. But second, and just as important: recipes where carrots play an important supporting role. What’s a good coleslaw or noodle soup without carrots? Let’s get to the recipes.
And now…our best easy carrot recipes!
Carrots nutrition
Carrot are one of the 20 best vegetables you can eat! What’s so great about carrots? Here are some nutrition benefits (source): Also try: Perfect Boiled Carrots
Vitamin A / Beta Carotene: Carrots have 428% of your daily vitamin A in 1 cup! It’s present as beta-carotene, an antioxidant could help in cancer prevention. Your body converts beta carotene into Vitamin A. Vitamins C, K and potassium: Carrots also are high in these vitamins.
Want more resources? Go to Quick Guide to Carrots or Can You Freeze Carrots?
More on eating your veggies!
Need more inspiration outside of these carrot recipes? We’ve got lots of it. Here are a few more resources for eating more vegetables: 5 from 2 reviews
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