These Easy Oven Roasted Carrots Recipe are just 53 calories per cup! In this article, you will learn how to roast carrots easily, and low in calories.
This how to roast carrots article will supply you with everything you need to make healthy recipe for carrots. Roasting carrots has never been easier, thanks to this easy to follow guide.
This oven roasted carrots recipe comes with a shopping list, how to guide, printable recipe card, and more.
Our low-calorie carrot recipe is a crowdpleaser, and wonderful for weeknight cooking, and even holiday dinners.
This roasted carrot recipe is only 53 calories!
Oven Roasted Carrots Recipe
In this article for low-calorie oven roasted carrots recipe, you will find everything you need to make healthy carrot recipes at home.
You’ll learn how to cook a carrot recipe, and even find our two low calorie tips to make roasted carrot recipes healthy, low clean up, and very low in calories.
Cooked carrots make a wonderful weeknight side dish, but most people like to make roasted carrots recipes for holiday dinners.
To make these oven baked carrots easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Roasted Carrots Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Roast Carrots in the Oven
- Oven Roasted Carrots Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Oven Roasted Carrots
The best carrot recipe is the easiest one! We love roasting carrots in oven, but often they create a lot of cleanup. But not with our low calorie tip below… Not only will this cooking carrots tip save you calories, but it will also save you and clean up time!
In the next section, you will find a shopping list to help you make roast carrot recipes, I recommend taking a screenshot on your phone so you have it handy the next time you go shopping.
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this healthy roasted carrots recipe to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, you will find a shopping list for this roast carrots recipe…
Ingredients in Roasted Carrots Recipes
Recipes for cooking carrots are quite simple, and this cooked carrots recipe is easy to make, and delicious!
We use olive oil spray and cooked carrot recipes, it helps to slightly crisp up the roast carrot recipe, without adding excess fat or calories.
Special Tip: You will find a recipe card below for recipes with cooked carrots. There, you will find measurements, and can easily double or triple this oven roasted carrots recipe, and it will do all the math for you.
Shopping List for Roasting Carrots in Oven:
- Carrots
- Olive oil spray
- Garlic
- Salt and pepper
- Parsley
Our low calorie tip on how to cook carrot in a healthy way, is using olive oil spray. We have one more low calorie tip on how to cook carrots below, this one will even help you in cleanup time…
In the next section, you will learn how to roast carrots without having to clean up! This carrot recipe tip will also help you lower the calories when roasting carrots.
Up next you’ll find one more low calorie tip on how to roast carrots in the oven low-calorie, with little to no cleanup…
How to Roast Carrots in the Oven
Roasting carrots has never been easier, thanks to this low calorie, no cleanup tip… Always use parchment paper!
By using parchment paper in this oven roasted carrots recipe, you won’t need so much oil to stop the carrots from sticking to the pan. This will lower the calories, and also help with cleanup. All you need to do is throw away the parchment paper after you’re done roasting carrots, and you can avoid the majority of the cleanup.
Special Tip: You can find this how to guide, as well as ingredients, measurements, even nutrition for the oven roasted carrots recipe in the next section. There, you will find a shareable recipe card for how to roast carrots that you can email to yourself, or pin to your Pinterest boards.
How to Roast Carrots:
- Preheat the oven to 400° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Cut the carrots in half to shorten them, then cut them into 1/2 inch thick sticks, dropping onto the prepared baking sheet as you work.
- Spray with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and drop the garlic (leave whole) into the center of the baking sheet.
- Roast for 20 minutes, until browned and tender.
- Remove from the oven and discard the garlic clove, sprinkle with parsley and serve hot.
Now that you know how to cook carrots in the oven, let’s move onto the shareable recipe card for roasted carrots.
Don’t forget to pick up some handy parchment paper, to make this carrot recipe easy to clean up, and low in calories.
Up next, you’ll find a shareable recipe card for roasted carrot recipes…
Oven Roasted Carrots Recipe
Now you can make oven roasted carrots low in calories, thanks to our two low calorie tips. Always use parchment paper, it will help with cleanup, and avoid your carrots sticking. And spray with olive oil, to help crisp up without adding excess calories and fat.
This low calorie recipe for oven roasted carrots, is only 53 calories per cup!
HEALTHY Oven Roasted Carrots (Low Calorie)
Equipment
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 8 carrots washed and peeled
- Olive oil spray
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons parsley chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Cut the carrots in half to shorten them, then cut them into 1/2 inch thick sticks, dropping onto the prepared baking sheet as you work.
- Spray with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and drop the garlic (leave whole) into the center of the baking sheet.
- Roast for 20 minutes, until browned and tender.
- Remove from the oven and discard the garlic clove, sprinkle with parsley and serve hot.
Notes
Nutrition
Up next, you’ll find nutrition and calories in homemade oven roasted carrots…
Nutrition and Calories in Oven Roasted Carrots
Not all carrot recipes are low in calories. Many are soaked and olive oil, making cooked carrots high in fat and calories. But not our oven roasted carrots recipe, it’s low-calorie, low fat, and absolutely delicious!
The nutrition and calories below are based off 1 serving (1 cup) of the healthy oven roasted carrots recipe above.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
You can find more low calorie recipes in the next section, and be sure to pin this recipe for roasted carrots for your Pinterest board so you have it handy the next time you find carrots on sale.
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