Healthy Baked Carrot Fries

Name: Healthy Baked Carrot Fries
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Western, American
Ingredients: 10 carrots; 1 tbsp. olive oil; 2 tsp. smoked paprika powder; 2 tsp. garlic powder; 1 pinch salt

July 22, 2020

What's more awesome than eating something healthy that in fact looks like fast food? Okay, maybe there are a few other things, but this get's pretty close, right?! If you are a sucker for fries, but actually want to eat more healthy, try to trick yourself into eating some veggies with our delicious carrot fries recipe!

Our carrot fries are super tasty and baked, which keeps them really nutritious. They are also very easy to make and only need a few ingredients. We love to serve them as a side-dish, at parties, cozy movie nights or simply as a snack.

If that still didn't convince you to run into your kitchen and get started, maybe these interesting facts will. Carrots are very high in beta-carotene which is converted to vitamin A in your body. They are also high in vitamin K, B6 and potassium. Just 100 g, which equals about one and a half carrots, contain 93% of the recommended dietary amount of vitamin A and 18% of the recommended dietary amount of vitamin K [1, 2]. Both beta-carotene and vitamin K are heat stable and will be preserved when baking the carrot fries [3, 4].

If all this sounds too healthy for you, don't worry. Check out or classic home-made baked fries and life will be good again!

Healthy Baked Carrot Fries Recipe

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Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Servings: 4 Categories: Side dishes, Dinner Cuisines: Western, American

Ingredients

10 carrots

1 tbsp. olive oil

Can be replaced with any other oil.

2 tsp. smoked paprika powder

2 tsp. garlic powder

1 pinch salt

Instructions

Step 1:

Preheat the oven to 210 °C (410 °F). Wash carrots and cut them into long, thin slices just like classic french fries.

Step 2:

Put the sliced carrots in a big bowl, add oil, smoked paprika powder and garlic powder and toss around until all carrots have an equal coat of oil around them.

Step 3:

Spread carrots in a single layer on an oven tray. Make sure they have enough space.

Step 4:

Bake carrots for 25 to 30 minutes until brown. Sprinkle with some salt and serve.

Sources

1. USDA: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170393/nutrients
2. US National institutes of health, Office of Dietary Supplements: Fact Sheet for Health Professionals
3. USDA Table of Nutrient Retention Factors: https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/retn06.pdf
4. Lee, S., Choi, Y., Jeong, H.S., Lee, J. and Sung, J., 2018. Effect of different cooking methods on the content of vitamins and true retention in selected vegetables. Food science and biotechnology, 27(2), pp.333-342.