Glazed Baby Carrots Recipe

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There's no need to eat plain old boiled carrots when this recipe is so easy to fix. The slightly sweet orange glaze makes the carrots taste much better.—Mina Dyck, Boissevain, Manitoba

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Glazed Baby Carrots Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 10 min.

Yield: 1 Servings

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Ingredients

1 cup baby carrots
1 tablespoon butter
2 teaspoons orange juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
Pepper to taste

Directions

Place carrots in a saucepan; add 1 in. of water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until crisp-tender.
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt butter. Add orange juice, sugar, mustard and pepper; cook and stir until thickened. Drain carrots; drizzle with butter mixture. Yield: 1 serving.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving (prepared with reduced-fat margarine and artificial sweetener equivalent to 1 teaspoon sugar) equals 129 calories, 8 g fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 175 mg sodium, 14 g carbohydrate, 0 fiber, 3 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 fat, 1 starch.

Originally published as Glazed Baby Carrots in Taste of Home April/May 2000, p10