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These Maple Glazed Carrots are easy to make, delicious, roasted to perfection, and coated with a sweet and delicious maple glaze. This oven-roasted glazed carrot recipe makes a perfect side dish for your dinner table this holiday season.
Holiday dinners are all about how creative you are with your side dishes. These Easy Maple Glazed Carrots will be a huge winner at your dinner table. They are easy to put together, sweet, tender, and roasted to perfection. Once you try this roasted carrot recipe you will be adding it to your dinner table at least once a week. They don’t have to be served only during the holidays!
If you’re after other delicious sides, why not also try my delicious Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Wedges or my Roasted Garlic Cauliflower?
why you’ll love these roasted glazed carrots
- A delicious glaze. Carrots LOVE maple syrup! This glaze is made from honey and maple syrup, it adds a wonderful candied, sticky sweetness to the carrots, so good.
- Perfectly roasted carrots. Glazed on the outside and tender in the middle, carrots are massively underused when it comes to roasting, give them a try!
- An easy side dish. A handful of ingredients, easy to prep – these maple glazed carrots go from pantry to table in 30 mins.
- An awesome Thanksgiving side. These bright orange carrots, glistening with a sticky glaze and studded with some pomegranate arils make for a gorgeous side, especially for Thanksgiving.
ingredients you’ll need
- Carrots: Medium small sized. You may also use baby carrots
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil– or any oil of choice. Avocado oil will also work just fine.
- Pure Maple Syrup– if you do not have maple syrup, you can use agave or more honey
- Honey: if you do not have honey use only maple syrup
- Seasoning: Ground coriander, smoked paprika, salt, and pepper.
- Fresh Thyme Leaves: optional but add a great flavor
- Pomegranate Seeds: optional, if they are not in season you can skip them.
how to make these honey-glazed carrots
- Prep the carrots. Place the carrots on the pan and sprinkle with smoked paprika, ground coriander, salt, and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil, maple syrup, and honey. Toss and coat well, then spread on a pan.
- Cook. Roast for about 15-20 minutes, or until tender and caramelized on the sides.
- Garnish with pomegranate seeds and fresh thyme. Enjoy.
recipe notes and tips
- Use small to medium carrots and ideally buy a pack of similar-sized ones, so they all cook at the same rate. Carrots that are too small won’t have time to caramelize and if they are too big they will take too long to roast.
- Make sure to peel and trim the edges of the carrots.
- For the best maple flavor use dark (grade A) pure maple syrup.
- If you don’t like maple syrup, you can use agave syrup.
- Add some red chili flakes for an added kick!
- You can check how tender they are with a toothpick or a fork. Some may like this a bit crunchy. We love them super soft and tender.
frequently asked questions
The best part about this Roasted Carrots recipe for me is the added pomegranate. It’s my all-time favorite and I add it to so many of my meals. Especially salads. If you don’t have any pomegranates, you can certainly make it without being creative and adding some pumpkin seeds or toasted pecans.
Yes. You can wash, peel and coat the carrots with the maple glaze mixture for 4 to 5 hours before roasting. Keep them covered, but you don’t have to refrigerate them.
Carrots should be stored in an airtight container and kept in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Absolutely, you can also freeze roasted carrots; transfer the carrots – completely cooled – to freezer bags and seal them. These carrots keep in the freezer for up to 6 months.
what to serve with maple glazed carrots
These Maple Glazed Carrots go hand in hand with a Thanksgiving dinner. But are also great with chicken, like my Creamy Tuscan Chicken, or my beef – like my Garlic Beef Tenderloin Roast. They also go well with fish dishes, try them with my Sun-dried Tomato Stuffed Salmon!
Other delicious side recipes
- Roasted Smoked Sweet Potatoes
- Healthy Eggplant And Zucchini Gratin
- Garlic Roasted Mushrooms Recipe
- Baked Macaroni and Cheese
- Ground Turkey Chili
- Green Beans and Tomato Salad
- Roasted Hasselback Butternut Squash
Recipes you may like
- Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup
- Taco Casserole Recipe
- Chicken and Vegetable Soup
- Roasted Pumpkin Soup Recipe
- Easy Grape Salad
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Easy Maple Roasted Carrots
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Medium-Small Carrots, peeled
- 2 Tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp Pure maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp Honey
- 1 Tsp Ground Coriander
- 1 Tsp Smoked Paprika
- 1 Tbsp Fresh Thyme Leaves
- 1/4 Cup Pomegranate Seeds
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to your taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 ̊F.
- Place the carrots on the pan and sprinkle with smoked paprika, ground coriander, salt, and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil, maple syrup, and honey.
- Using your hands gently toss to coat them well, then spread it in the pan.
- Roast for about 15-20 minutes, or until tender and caramelized on the sides.
- Garnish with pomegranate seeds and fresh thyme. Enjoy.
Notes
- Use small to medium carrots and ideally buy a pack of similar-sized ones, so they all cook at the same rate. Carrots that are too small won’t have time to caramelize and if they are too big they will take too long to roast.
- Make sure to peel and trim the edges of the carrots.
- For the best maple flavor use a dark (grade A) pure maple syrup.
- If you don’t like maple syrup, you can use agave syrup.
- Add some red chili flakes for an added kick!
- You can check how tender they are with a toothpick or a fork. Some may like this a bit crunchy. We love them super soft and tender.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Another super delicious and easy recipe.
Perfect accompanent to Christmas Dinner and so easy to make.
These turned out amazing even though I didn’t have any pomegranate. Thanks!
Yo, almost burned down my apartment following this. You shouldn’t use Parchment Paper in the oven. Holy crap. First time cooking something like this, but you should know better when putting a recipe out there.
Hi. Did you use wax paper or parchment? Parchment is fine to use and we use it in the oven all the time. It’s Wax paper that gets smokey.
I took have used parchment paper to bake. That’s what it’s intended for. You sure it wasn’t your first time baking?