These delicious Brown Sugar Roasted Carrots work equally as well for a holiday side dish or an everyday weeknight dinner.

A bowl of brown sugar roasted carrots with a spoon inserted.

Roasting carrots is the best way to bring out their natural sweetness. In fact, another name for these baked carrots is candied carrots. While they roast, the carrots become glazed and browned.

We also love roasting carrots in the air fryer, (check out Air Fryer Carrots) but I find that the oven is the best way to cook this particular recipe for brown sugar carrots.

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What's So Good About This?
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What's So Good About This?

Brown sugar glazed carrots are a perfect side dish for holiday dinners like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter.
These baked carrots work just as well to compliment an everyday family dinner.
Caramelizing carrots in brown sugar and butter makes them buttery, sweet and tender.
The recipe is super simple to make. Peeling and slicing carrots is the longest step.
This delicious side dish takes only 30 minutes from start to finish, and 20 of those minutes are oven time.
Carrots are budget friendly and keep for a while in the fridge, so you can throw this glazed carrot recipe together any time you need a quick vegetable to go with your main.

Ingredient Notes

Carrots Any carrots will work, as long as they're fresh. To cut down even more on prep time, use baby carrots.
Brown Sugar Light or dark brown sugar has a caramel, molasses flavour that is the star of this brown sugar roasted carrot recipe.
Butter Use real butter, of course.
Garlic You can use fresh or jarred minced garlic, or you can use garlic powder.
Salt & Pepper
Parsley For garnish

How To Make It

It couldn't be any easier to make these caramelized carrots.

Toss all the ingredients, except the parsley, in a bowl.

The ingredients being tossed together in a glass bowl.

Pour everything onto a parchment lined baking sheet and spread into a single layer

Brown sugar and butter glazed carrots on a baking sheet ready to go in the oven.

Bake for 20 minutes, turning halfway through.

Roasted glazed carrots on a baking sheet fresh from the oven.

Transfer to a serving dish, garnish with parsley, and serve!

Recipe Tips & Variations

Slice the carrots any way you like, keeping two things in mind: Smaller cuts mean less roasting time, and also more surface area to caramelize. Learn how to cut carrots: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cut-carrots.
Try to slice carrots in a uniform size so that they cook evenly.
To save time, you can use pre-peeled baby carrots for this recipe.
Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or foil for easy cleanup.
Parsley is a good garnish pairing for baked carrots, but other good options are cilantro, thyme, sage, or chives.
If you want more seasoning, try cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, paprika, or cayenne pepper.

A dish of baked brown sugar carrots being served.

Serving Suggestions

Serve these baked glazed carrots with your holiday turkey (try this Cranberry Glazed BBQ Turkey Breast) or ham, and also with everyday dinners. These delicious caramelized carrots go with anything from Pork Chops, Roast Chicken, Baked Salmon, Steaks, or Meatloaf.

More Great Side Dishes

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Recipe

Brown Sugar Roasted Carrots

Roasted carrots in a buttery brown sugar glaze are easy to make and delicious. A perfect Thanksgiving side dish but just as good any day of the week.

5 from 61 votes

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: North American

Diet: Gluten Free, Vegetarian

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 20

Total Time: 30

Servings:

Calories: 178kcal

Author: Colleen Milne

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425° Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or foil
In a bowl, toss all ingredients except parsley together
Spread the carrots over the prepared baking sheet in a single layer.
Bake for 20 minutes, stirring halfway through, or until the carrots are fork tender and beginning to brown.

Notes

Slice the carrots anyway you like, keeping two things in mind: Smaller cuts mean less roasting time, and also more surface area to caramelize.

Try to slice carrots in a uniform size so that they cook evenly.

To save time, you can use pre-peeled baby carrots for this recipe.

Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or foil for easy cleanup.

Parsley is a good garnish pairing for baked carrots, but other good options are cilantro, thyme, sage, or chives.

If you want more seasoning, try cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, paprika, or cayenne pepper.

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