Liven up your roast dinner with these delicious honey mustard roasted parsnips and carrots – easy to make and so delicious.
What’s your favourite part of a roast dinner? Apart from the stuffing, my absolute favourite has to be roasted veg.
I’m especially fond of parsnips and I always make extra because I can’t help sneaking a few when I take them out of the oven (by the way I do NOT recommend doing this – I’ve burnt my mouth on more than one occasion! I’ll never learn..)
I’ve long been a fan of adding honey or maple syrup to roasted veg, but one thing that always annoyed me was having to deal with the crystallised sugar stuck to the tin afterwards.
A lot of recipes I’ve seen instruct you to drizzle the honey directly over the veg, which is delicious but I’ve found that by doing this you’re much more likely to end up with black, burnt sugar that sticks to the tin.
I’ve found that if you simply mix the honey with some oil before pouring over the vegetables, you still get that gorgeous sweet caramelisation and less mess to deal with afterwards!
And who wants to deal with burnt roasting tins on Christmas Day? Certainly not me.
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More festive dishes…
Brussels sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts
Rolled turkey breast with apricot and cranberry stuffing
Sausagemeat, sage & cranberry stuffing balls
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Honey Mustard Roasted Parsnips and Carrots
Liven up your roast dinner with these gorgeous sticky-sweet roasted parsnips and carrots!
Ingredients
- 4 Parsnips, peeled and cut into long sticks
- 4 Carrots, peeled and cut into long sticks
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp clear honey
- 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180Fan/400F.
- Place the peeled parsnips and carrots in a medium sized roasting tin.
- Mix together the vegetable oil, honey and mustard in a small bowl.
- Pour this all over the vegetables and sprinkle over some salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Roast for 35-45 minutes, or until cooked through, golden and sticky.
Notes
Serves 4 people
I love honey mustard roasted carrots and parsnips. They are one of my favourite parts of Christmas dinner – especially the parsnips! Thanks for linking it up to #CookBlogShare. Wishing you and yours a fabulous Christmas! Eb x
Thank you Eb – I love them too, I could (and usually do) eat a ton! You’re very welcome. Hope you and your family have a great Christmas! x
These look delicious. I love parsnips but not until after the first frosts as they really do taste so much better then.
Thanks Jacqui. You’re right about the parsnips, it really does make a huge difference to them.