Tag: yum

This recipe comes from Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food cook-book. This is a great side dish  for a BBQ or simply tasty vegetables for dinner.  It can be prepared early and popped in the oven for cooking at anytime.  It’s so easy!!  But more importantly sooooo YUM!

Ingredients

1 ¾ lbs/700 grams carrots
1 sprigs fresh rosemary
1 clove garlic
1 orange, zest and juice
1 tsp marmalade
1 rasher of bacon
2 pats/ 2 teaspoonsbutter
Salt and pepper

Method

• Preheat your oven to 400F or 200C.
• Peel carrots.
• Leave them whole if small, chopping any larger ones up.
• Get yourself a sheet of aluminum foil about 2 feet/60cm long, fold it in half to make a crease, and then open it out again.
• Pile your carrots in the middle of the aluminum foil on one side of the crease.
• Pick the leaves off the rosemary and finely chop.
• Peel and finely slice garlic.
• Scatter the rosemary and garlic over the carrots.
• Grate over the zest from half of the orange, and add the marmalade,chopped bacon,  butter and a pinch of salt and pepper.
• Fold the other half of the aluminum foil over the carrots and scrunch and seal the two sides of the aluminum foil bag together, leaving one end open.
• Halve the orange and squeeze all the juice into the bag
• Seal up the final side.
• Place your aluminum foil bag on a baking tray in the preheated oven for around 50 minutes.
• To serve, carefully pour the carrots and all their juices into a nice big serving dish.

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