Carrots

Wait, you find yourself asking, there's a carrot season? Well, yes. Carrots are obviously available year-round in North America, harvested from cooler areas in the summer and warmer areas in the winter. Unusual varieties are harvested during the carrot's natural season, however, which is late summer and fall (with true baby carrots - not the milled down versions of regular carrots sold as "baby carrots" in bags at grocery stores - available in the spring and early summer). They are often available from storage through early winter in colder climates.

Carrot Recipes (17)

10 Great Ways to Use Root Vegetables
Find great ideas for using root vegetables like carrots.

Creamy Carrot Sunchoke Soup
Sweet carrots and sunchokes make a delicious soup when cooked together.

Peas and Carrots
Peas and carrots are and easy spring classic.

Carrot Kohlrabi Slaw
Carrots and kohlrabi slaw gets a ton of flavor from a mustard-rich dressing.

Spicy Potatoes, Cabbage & Carrots
This dish of potatoes, cabbage, and carrots cooked in a mildly spicy and extremely flavorful mix of ginger, tumeric, and pepper is inspired by a traditional Ethiopian stew. It is definitely one of those easy dishes that tastes like more than its individual parts.

A tossed salad with cucumbers, carrots, mint, dill, and parsley is an easy and refreshing addition to simple meals.

Roasting carrots and parsnips together brings out their sweet, earthy, and nutty flavor, and makes a super simple, highly nutritious, and tasty side dish.

Roasting carrots brings out their sweet inner natures. See how easy it is to roast carrots here.

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