Carrot Recipes for Every Occasion

Carrots may be a winter root vegetable, but that doesn’t mean they have no place on your springtime spread. Here, you’ll find fun and inventive ways to use the Easter Bunny’s favorite veggie in bright, warm-weather-friendly appetizers, entrees, desserts, and more. These carrot recipes are easy to make and taste amazing!

Carrot Recipes

These easy carrot recipes are perfect for family dinners, holidays, cookouts, or any day you want a delicious vegetable side dish.

Cooking carrots does not need to be difficult. It can be as easy as cooking them to your desired tenderness and garnishing them with some fresh herbs.

Cracker Barrel Carrots

In this copycat Cracker Barrel recipe, baby carrots are coated in a brown sugar butter glaze for a carrot side dish that is elegant in its simplicity. We’ve heard of various ways to customize it to your menu or pantry, including but not limited to adding some nutmeg or a tablespoon or two of bacon grease.

Hawaiian Mac Salad

Hawaiian cuisine has been a personal favorite that goes back to my days as a marine biology intern on the Big Island. This creamy and tangy salad, a standard on a Hawaiian lunch plate, delivers big island flavor while only containing two core ingredients - grated carrots and the macaroni salad mixture.

For optimal taste, refrigerate the prepared salad for at least four hours, preferably a day, before serving to allow the flavors to meld together better.

Weight Watchers Vegetable Soup

This vegetarian-friendly soup can be just the thing for getting back on track with your diet. It is simple to prepare and has nutritious, nourishing veggies like celery, carrots, and diced tomatoes that won’t make you feel guilty for grabbing seconds.

Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, chicken noodle soup is a healing, soul-warming elixir. The carrots in this classic sick-day soup add nutrition and bright orange pops of color. For ultimate convenience, this recipe comes together entirely in your Crock Pot.

Carrot Ginger Soup

This warmly-flavored springtime soup features the complementary flavors of carrot and ginger. The coconut milk base is a must for this particular recipe, and we don’t recommend substituting unless you’re okay with a different kind of soup. We recreated this stovetop soup from our seven-course meal at Elderberry House, the on-site eatery at Chateau du Sureau.

This carrot soup is one of our favorite comfort meals.

Easy Fried Rice

This one-pot version of a Chinese takeout classic is handy when you want to make a tasty Asian-inspired dish but don’t want to expend dishes unnecessarily. If you feel ravenous, you can make it a meal with our Asian Flank Steak, Crockpot Teriyaki Chicken, or Cashew Chicken.

Pork Bone Broth

Bone broth is a nutritious, collagen-filled stock highlighting the resourcefulness of the first humans to roam the earth. Look to your local grocery store or butcher for the raw pork neck bones we use in this recipe.

Carrot Soufflé

Do a solid for the Easter Bunny by serving this amazingly delicious carrot soufflé during your next springtime brunch or dinner. While the word soufflé can make one run for the hills, this easy-peasy recipe got me past this fear.

Crock Pot Pot Roast

Loaded with two pounds of beef and half a pound of carrots, this slow-cooker pot roast is a hearty meal that covers all your bases. Make it a complete dinner with a helping of mashed potatoes.

Guinness Corned Beef

In this sheet pan meal, corned beef, red potatoes, and carrots are made flavorful and memorable with a Guinness and brown sugar rub that tastes better as it bakes in your oven.

Need more meal ideas for that six-pack in your fridge? We have a collection of Guinness recipes that are sure to help.

Crockpot Split Pea Soup

The idea of split pea soup is simple - simmer the ingredients and seasonings to soupy perfection. I made this slow-cooker take on a classic soup for John’s grandmother, whose life and endless stories of a life well-lived continue to inspire me. Feel free to swap the chicken bouillon cubes for vegetable broth to make it vegetarian-friendly.

Butternut Squash Soup with Sausage

Packed full of butternut squash and sausage, this cozy sage and nutmeg-scented soup is excellent year-round and leaves a fantastic aroma in your kitchen as all the ingredients combine.

Crockpot Lentil Soup

This vegetarian-friendly lentil soup is bright, flavorful, and made entirely in your Crock Pot. We recommend using an immersion blender to blend to your desired consistency.

Crockpot Turkey

Did you know that your Crock Pot can prepare an entire Thanksgiving bird? From our kitchen to yours, we shared this recipe on the site to make your holiday season more stress-free.

Crockpot Glazed Carrots

Orange, brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla combine to create a glazed carrot dish that will trick you into eating your veggies. The glaze comes from a slurry of cornstarch and water. This is also another set-it-and-forget-it recipe that comes together in your slow cooker.

Thai Coconut Chicken Soup

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to explore Thailand and, naturally, its local cuisine. This simple take on tom kha gai features chicken, colorful carrots, and sweet peppers in a rich, flavorful coconut cream-based broth.

Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies

These cream cheese-filled cookies are everything you love about carrot cake and oatmeal cookies. We recommend grating the carrots with a cheese grater, but if you don’t have one in your kitchen, you can also peel the carrots and cut them into mixable ribbons.

Crockpot Vegetable Soup

This kitchen-sink-style soup is a crafty way of using pantry staples to use up in-season summer vegetables. Crave more protein? Just add a can of garbanzo beans.

Crockpot Turkey & Wild Rice Soup

This slow-cooker version of Panera’s chicken and wild rice soup comes together with essential pantry ingredients for a cozy soup without the effort. Even better, it makes use of leftover holiday turkey.

Port Braised Beef Short Ribs

These fall-off-the-bone short ribs are braised in Tinta Port wine, which comes from the cellars of Ficklin Vineyards. Check out our trip to Oakhurst for more on this 70-year-old port winery.

Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Our take on this hearty and rustic soup from Olive Garden uses diced rotisserie chicken and ready-to-cook potato gnocchi as a shortcut. Garnish it with fresh Parmesan cheese for a Mamma Mia finish.

Easy Vegetable Lo Mein

This mushroom, sweet pepper, carrot, spinach, and pea-loaded lo mein is an easy way to recreate this Chinese takeout standby with widely available ingredients. Lo mein is traditionally made with egg noodles, but we use spaghetti noodles.

Crockpot Ham & Potato Soup

This rustic soup is one of our go-to's for using ham left over from the holidays. The Crock-Pot takes care of the cooking process and can be started before you leave the house for the day, making it effortless and perfect for a busy weekday dinner.

Crockpot Carrot Cake Oatmeal

Breakfast is served with this slow-cooker oatmeal take on carrot cake. Prep the ingredients and leave the Crock Pot powered on overnight for a kitchen filled with the divine scent of carrot cake in the morning.

Hungarian Goulash

Did you know this Hungarian entree has different versions, including an American one made with ground beef and egg noodles? This goulash recipe is inspired by the authentic goulash we sampled in the Czech Republic, a stopover on our Viking River Cruise.

Crockpot Slow Cooker Chicken Ramen Soup

This dressed-up ramen may be made with packaged noodles, but it still has the trimmings of a comforting soup that shatters that college student stereotype. It is filled with carrots, pea pods, and sweet peppers, slow-cooked to perfection in an aromatic, sriracha-infused broth.

Crockpot Chicken & Biscuit Pot Pie

Frozen peas, carrots, and refrigerator biscuits are the time-saving shortcuts behind this deconstructed slow-cooker chicken and biscuit pot pie.

Crockpot Italian Wedding Soup

With this easy-peasy Crock Pot recipe, you can recreate this Italian-American restaurant mainstay from the convenience of your home kitchen.

Crockpot Vegetarian Meatball Soup

The Beyond Meat meatballs in this vegetarian-friendly soup taste so much like the real thing that you won’t realize your protein source is plant-powered. In addition, one serving contains a whopping 27 grams of protein, which helps if you’re a fellow vegetarian struggling with protein intake.

Crockpot Vegetarian Soup

Delight in this curried soup featuring root veggies and protein-packed beans simmered in curry powder and bay leaves, among other aromatic spices.

Crockpot Beer Cheese Soup

With carrots, celery, crumbled bacon, and your beer of choice, this cheesy soup for Oktoberfest season is also loaded enough to be a meal.

Crockpot Guinness Beef Stew

Beef and root veggies take center stage in this meat-and-potatoes stew made in your slow cooker. Pair it with traditional Irish soda bread for a feast suitable for St. Patrick himself.

Crockpot Cashew Chicken

We shared this slow-cooker version of a Chinese takeout favorite amid the chaos of March 2020, when it felt important to have accessible versions of foods we love but didn’t want to leave home for. Fast forward to now, we still enjoy it whenever that craving hits.

Orzo Pasta Salad

Pasta salads are synonymous with sunnier skies and warmer temperatures, so why not pair this veggie-packed orzo salad with your ham entree? As with many grain-based salads, the dressing gets absorbed quickly, so make extra parmesan vinaigrette to set aside for future use if you prefer your saucier.

Carrot Cake with Pineapple, Coconut, and Port Wine

We made this creative carrot cake with Old Vine Tinta Port, a port wine from California’s Ficklin Vineyards, one of the most prestigious port wineries in the country.

Topped with an amazing cream cheese frosting!

Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli

In this recipe, cannellini, red kidney beans, and Italian sausage swim in a broth of spices, herbs, vegetables, and ditalini pasta for an Olive Garden copycat soup that will warm you any day you need.

Olive Garden Minestrone Soup

The red kidney beans and white navy beans fill you with plant-powered protein in this copycat Olive Garden soup, while the spices and herbs comfort the senses. This soup is vegan-friendly when served without Parmesan cheese.

We are working on Roasted Carrots, carrot salad, and more fun new recipes!

Recipe Tips

Garnish - Fresh parsley, fresh herbs, fresh thyme

Storage - Make sure to store leftovers in an airtight container.

Printable recipe card instructions are available in each recipe post.

Nutrition information, including calories, protein, calcium, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamin c, potassium, cholesterol, sodium, trans fat, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, and more, will vary depending on the products used.