Let me tell you about carrot fries. Goddamn, I love carrot fries. These things are the easiest shit to make, and they’re goddamn delicious and low calorie.
How did I never know about carrot fries? Maybe because they’re usually sold as “healthy baked carrots” which, let me tell you, sounds like the most boring bland stuff imaginable. Especially since, if I’m honest, I’m not carrots’ biggest fan to begin with. But they are not. Oh god, they are not. These little things taste like sweet potato fries and when I’m trying to pull a calorie deficit they fill every one of my needs and desires for salty savory goodness.
How do you make them? Guys, it’s so easy.
1. Preheat oven to 425
2. Cut carrots into small pieces. Like, cut the carrot in half and then cut the pieces into three pieces and three pieces again. The smaller the crunchier.
3. Toss all those carrots with a tablespoon of your favorite cooking oil and all the salt and seasoning your poor tongue can handle. Mine are made with garlic powder and more salt than in all the LARPer hearts.
4. Put foil or wax paper on a cookie tray so you don’t have to clean up anything later. (Optional step, but I hate dishes with the fiery passion of a thousand suns).
5. Lay out the pieces so they’re approximately in a single layer. No need to get too obsessive, these things are super forgiving.
6. Bake for 10 minutes.
7. Take them out and toss them around and flip them a bit, again, they’re super forgiving. Just make them feel paid attention to, you know?
8. Bake for 5-10 minutes, depending on your desire for char and blackness. Personally, I’ve found the blackened carrot fries are actually just as delicious, but not everyone is as forgiving of the void.
9. Remove. Eat.
And let me tell you, if you make 4 carrots worth of fries that’s approximately 220-300 calories all together, and really- that’s about two people’s worth of carrot fries.
These things are delicious, low calorie, and super super super indulgent. Are you craving chips? Fatty foods? Make these. Love these. I for one am never going without carrots ever again.