Glazed (or Candied) Carrots

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• water
• 1 lb carrot, cut into 2 inch sticks (or even better, 1 lb baby carrots)
• salt
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 in a medium saucepan over medium heat, add carrots and just enough water to cover them with 1/4 teaspoons salt.
• 2 bring to a boil.
• 3 cover, then cook carrots for 15 minutes or until the carrots are tender-crisp; drain well.
• 4 return the carrots to the saucepan.
• 5 mix in the butter or margarine, the sugar, 1/4 teaspoons salt and the nutmeg.
• 6 return the mixture to the heat and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the carrots are glazed.
• 7 transfer glazed carrots to a warmed bowl and serve.