Name: Sweet Glazed Carrots
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1.5 dl/¼ pint water; 450 g/1 lb new carrots; 2 teaspoons castor sugar; 15 g/½ oz butter; ½ onion, finely chopped; bay leaf

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Certain vegetables are naturally sweet in flavour. Carrots and onions are a good example, and in cooking the sweetness should be emphasized. Carrots taste lovely in a shiny butter glaze and when fresh peas are available combine both, as they look pretty together.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb new carrots
½ onion, finely chopped
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Method

Scrape the carrots and slice or dice. Place in a saucepan and add the onion, bay leaf, sugar, butter and water. Cover with a lid and bring up to the boil, then cook over moderate heat. After about 20 minutes the carrots should be tender. Remove the pan lid and continue to boil quickly so that the water remaining in the pan evaporates.

When the carrots begin to fry in the butter glaze th