Can you freeze honey roast carrots?
Yes, before its final cook. Freeze the pieces on a lined tray until firm, then pack them into a container.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 8 portions, in 40m start to finish.
Ingredients for 8 portions
Method
Prep the carrots
- Heat the oven to 200°C fan. If the roast potatoes are already in, these go in beside them.
- Peel carrot and keep the peelings and ends for stock. Halve the carrots lengthways, and quarter any thick ones.
Roast
- Toss the carrots with olive oil and salt in a roasting tin, or two, and spread them out in a single layer.
- Roast for 20 minutes.
- Drizzle over honey and toss.
Finish them
- Roast for 10 minutes more, until tender and catching at the edges.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Spread them out on a lined tray and freeze until firm, then pack into your container.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take it out of its container.
- Spread them on a roasting tray in a single layer.
- Heat it in the oven until it’s steaming hot all the way through and golden.
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it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed
, says the Food Standards Agency.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 113 kcal
- Fat
- 7g
- Carbohydrate
- 10.7g
- Protein
- 0.6g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 113 kcal
- Fat
- 7g
- of which saturates
- 0.8g
- Carbohydrate
- 10.7g
- of which sugars
- 10.2g
- Fibre
- 2.4g
- Protein
- 0.6g
- Salt
- 1.02g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Part of a whole bag of carrots
400g of a 1kg bag of carrots: tonight’s side, for 4. The same session makes spiced carrot and lentil soup and scrap vegetable stock.
No special kit
- Works best in freezer bags Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
- Everything from one shop Batch cook it with Nomstash and the freezer bags go on the same shopping list as the food.
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk
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