Roasted Green Beans and Carrots are a quick and easy side dish you can make when you are craving roasted vegetables. This dish is healthy and packed with flavours, thanks to the honey, butter, garlic and parmesan cheese.
It is a simple sheet pan roasted vegetable recipe that pairs well with almost any main dish and is perfect for weeknights or holidays.
For more roasted vegetable recipes, check Roasted Vegetable Pizza.
This Roasted Green Beans and Carrots recipe is versatile; you can add to it any vegetables you like, such as red onions, potatoes or zucchini.
This dish has been roasted to mouthwatering excellence and topped with cheesy and melty parmesan. The mixture of butter and garlic combined with lemon juice makes this recipe even more appetizing.
Cheesy, buttery, tangy, mildly sweet, and starchy are just among the mix of flavorful tastes you can have with this dish once you have perfected the recipe.
Every spoonful of this dish is a combination of delicate, creamy, and even a minimal crunch here and there, thanks to the green beans and carrots.
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The Best Roasted Green Beans and Carrots Recipe
Serve this recipe as a side for lunch or dinner. A hearty serving of this dish will surely satisfy your hunger after a hectic morning or a busy day. The undeniable flavorful taste of this dish makes it a perfect addition to your meal, whether for noon or evening! Roasted Green Beans and Carrots are not just for your typical day-to-day meal either.
You can prepare this dish and serve it for any special gathering held at home! A lunch party with friends will be brighter and more flavorful with this dish! A sophisticated and intimate dinner with family can also be more appetizing with this scrumptious dish.
Some may not be fond of green beans or carrots, but together, green beans and carrots can make a dish that is so flavorful, all thanks to the other ingredients added to this recipe.
Seasoned with salt and pepper and finished with butter and garlic with added lemon juice and topped with parmesan cheese, this recipe will indeed make anyone love a veggie-filled dish.
Why Does This Recipe Work?
Parmesan Roasted Green Beans and Carrots are not just a perfect side dish for your meal. This recipe has so much convenience to offer; some of those are the following:
- This dish is made with a few simple ingredients that are all pantry staples. If some of the ingredients are not available at home, you can surely find them at the grocery near you.
- This recipe is one of the easiest vegetarian side dishes you can ever make at home.
- The veggie-filled recipe is good for kids and adults alike. This dish is one of the hack recipes you can prepare at home to make your kids love veggies.
- A convenient way to use up your stocked green beans or carrots.
- A quick and easy dish to add to your daily or weeknight meal idea!
- You can serve this easy dish any time of the year! A cold season deserves a hearty hot meal consisting of this dish. A hot season deserves a fulfilling meal consisting of this dish as well.
Ingredients
Green Beans. Choose the best quality green beans for this recipe to provide a mild, fresh and almost sweet flavor that will taste even better once roasted.
Carrots. Sweet, earthy, and almost crunchy; carrots will blend well with the green beans in this recipe.
Olive Oil. It will not impart any undesirable or added flavor to the dish; hence it is the best one to be used. Olive oil will also stop the green beans and carrots from sticking to the baking sheet.
Salt & Pepper. Season this recipe taste with salt and pepper for more vibrancy to the flavor. Salt balances all flavors present in the recipe, while pepper adds warmth to the taste.
Honey. It does not only improve the taste of this oven-roasted dish but would also give a more interesting note of flavor between sweet, woody, and even musky.
Butter. Butter will be used to caramelize the garlic for this recipe, also giving the dish a delicate taste.
Garlic. It serves as an aromatic for this dish, it also imparts a brighter flavor, especially since it has been cooked in butter. The delicateness adds to the recipe is one of a kind
Lemon Juice. It gives this dish a clean aftertaste. Most of all, it imparts that zingy and almost tangy flavor that mixes well with the other ingredients. Plus, lemon juice tenderizes the green beans and carrots as well so that they will roast nicely and be yummy in the oven.
Parmesan Cheese. Use parmesan cheese to top this recipe off! The melty texture of this cheese makes the whole dish even more mouthwatering.
How To Make Roasted Green Beans and Carrots (step-by-step)
Step One: Preheat the oven to 220°. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl, mix together carrot, olive oil, green beans, honey, salt, and pepper until combined.
Step Two: Spread the mixture into a single layer on the roasting sheet. Roast in the oven for 30-35 minutes.
Step Three: In a pan, melt the butter on low heat, add in garlic cook for 5-10 until the butter is brown and the garlic is golden brown.
Now, remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.
Step Four: Pour the mixture on top of the carrots and green beans and sprinkle parmesan cheese on top and serve.
Top Tips!
- Wash and clean the green beans and carrots that you bought from the market thoroughly, and then pat them dry with a kitchen towel to give them the best texture once roasted.
- While in the oven, stir halfway through the cooking time so that you will be sure that the whole dish is cooked through.
- We want the natural tastes of carrots and green beans to rule over this recipe; hence it would be wise not to overdo it with the addition of honey lest we make the whole dish taste too sweet and unappealing.
- Double this recipe to serve more of this delicious dish at home.
Make sure that the green beans are trimmed and halved while the carrots are cut into 2-inch sticks.
Recipe Variations
- Spice up this recipe by adding a pinch or so of chili powder!
- Top your dish with some nuts or seeds to add a bit of crunch. You can use flaked almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds or sunflower seeds.
- Keep this recipe even simpler by using brown sugar instead of honey.
- Are you fond of green veggies? Then don't hesitate to add broccoli or cauliflower to the mix! More crunch, greener, more nutrients!
- You may use frozen green beans; however, you have to thaw completely and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Use baby carrots if you prefer.
- Add some herbs or spices to this dish, such as thyme, rosemary, paprika, oregano, cayenne pepper or turmeric.
Serving Suggestions
Serve this Honey Roasted Green Beans and Carrots with your favorite chicken recipe, either Crème Fraiche Chicken or Lemon Buttered Chicken.
You may also serve it with steak or pasta, depending on your preference! Others opt for eating this dish as a standalone meal, and there is really nothing wrong with that since it is already a whole meal as it is.
Storage
Store: Keep in an airtight container for three days if the fridge.
Freeze: You may lengthen the shelf life of this dish by freezing it for up to three months.
Reheat: Thaw in the fridge overnight, and reheat in the microwave until piping hot.
Recipe FAQs
The skin of the carrots may still have some dirt on them despite already being washed, so it is better to just peel the skin off before roasting the carrots.
Yes, you still have to cut baby carrots up so that they can cook in the oven at the same time as the green beans.
You do not have to do so; however, cutting these ends from green beans before roasting does make eating easier and allows them to cook faster.
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Recipe
Roasted Green Beans And Carrots
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220°. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, mix together carrot, olive oil, green beans, honey, salt, and pepper until combined.
- Spread the mixture into a single layer on the baking sheet. Roast in the oven for 30-35 minutes.
- In a saucepan, melt the butter on low heat, add in garlic cook for 5-10 until the butter is brown and the garlic is golden brown.
- Now, remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.
- Pour the mixture on top of the carrots and green beans and sprinkle parmesan cheese on top and serve.
Notes
- Wash and clean the green beans and carrots that you bought from the market thoroughly, and then pat them dry with a kitchen towel to give them the best texture once roasted.
- While in the oven, stir halfway through the cooking time so that you will be sure that the whole dish is cooked through.
- We want the natural tastes of carrots and green beans to rule over this recipe; hence it would be wise not to overdo it with the addition of honey lest we make the whole dish taste too sweet and unappealing.
- Double this recipe to serve more of this delicious dish at home.
- Make sure that the green beans are trimmed and halved while the carrots are cut into 2-inch sticks.
Variations
- Spice up this recipe by adding a pinch or so of chili powder!
- Keep this recipe even simpler by using brown sugar instead of honey.
- Are you fond of green veggies? Then don't hesitate to add broccoli or cauliflower to the mix! More crunch, greener, more nutrients!
- You may use frozen green beans; however, you have to thaw completely and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Use baby carrots if you prefer.
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