Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots
Try these scrumptious, easy and elegant Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots for dinner guests or holiday entertaining. A few simple ingredients make for a special occasion side dish!
This Glazed Carrots Recipe is easy and elegant and you’ll want seconds and thirds!
Why You’ll Love my Best Glazed Carrots Recipe
Years ago, I was given a bottle of bourbon-spiked maple syrup. Besides being a decadent pancake topper, I whipped up these elegant glazed carrots for an upscale holiday side dish.
Glazing carrots is such an easy way to turn a normal vegetable side dish into something company-worthy! And this recipe doesn’t require any gourmet maple syrup to make it.
Maple Glazed Carrots
This fancy cooked carrots recipe can definitely be reserved for dinner guests or family holiday dinners, but they’re so easy to make, but I wouldn’t recommend it. These carrots are a super simple side dish that takes a little extra time to cook.
Reducing the glaze takes about 30 minutes after already having to cook the carrots. But besides the extra step, there’s nothing complicated about these glazed carrots. And if you ask my hubby, he’d tell you they were worth the wait!
How to Make Glazed Carrots
My usual method of making glazed carrots is to cook carrot slices or coins in water until tender, drain, then add butter and brown sugar to the carrots and heat until the sugar is melted.
This recipe adds another step by using a more flavorful cooking liquid which includes chicken broth, maple syrup, and bourbon. Once the carrots are tender, they’re removed and the liquid is reduced to a glaze.
Tips for Cooking Glazed Carrots
The addition of maple syrup and bourbon gives some zest to ordinary carrots. If you don’t like cooking with alcohol, feel free to leave it out. If you’re serving children, the long reducing time should boil out almost all the alcohol.
- Make sure the carrots are covered in the chicken broth, syrup, bourbon, and butter so they all cook at the same rate.
- Pro-Tip: Alcohol, like salt, is a flavor enhancer. Another reason this recipe is a winner!
- PRO-Tip: For a vegetarian version, feel free to use vegetable stock or salted water instead of the chicken broth.
- Reduce the glaze to about 1 cup. The time will vary depending on how vigorously the liquid is boiling.
- If your chicken stock is salty, you may not need to add any extra salt to the carrots. Taste before seasoning. A little black pepper is recommended.
More Holiday Side Dishes:
- Melting Sweet Potatoes from Foodie with Family
- Easy Cranberry Sauce from Wine and Glue
- Perfect Mashed Potatoes from A Family Feast
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Apples and Bacon from Barefeet in the Kitchen
- Spinach Souffle
- Praline Topped Sweet Potato Casserole
- Cranberry Fluff Salad
- Orange Glazed Carrots
- More Side Dish Recipes
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Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots
A simple maple syrup, bourbon glaze to take your carrots to the next level!
Ingredients
- 3 pounds carrots, peeled and cut into thick diagonal slices
- 4-5 cups chicken stock
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1-2 tablespoons bourbon
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- Salt, to taste (taste before seasoning)
Instructions
In a large saucepan, combine carrots, chicken stock, maple syrup, bourbon and butter. Bring to a boil, then decrease to a simmer till carrots are tender, 30-40 minutes.
Remove carrots to a bowl, leaving the liquid in the pan. Bring the liquid to a gentle boil, and reduce the mixture to 1-1 1/4 cups, about 30 minutes. Return carrots to the pan and add vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Serve.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 336Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 1032mgCarbohydrates: 49gFiber: 5gSugar: 28gProtein: 16g
17 Comments on “Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots”
I always thought carrots as a side dish was a little boring for a holiday meal, but this is a WHOLE new take, and I LOVE it! Bourbon and maple make all the difference! Such a yummy combo 🙂
I adore cooked carrots and adding the bourbon gives me more reason to love them!
Thanks so much, Paula! Welcome 🙂
what a delicious blog! here is so many uncanny inspirations!
have a nice time,
Paula
I need to check out Melissa’s recipe, Kate! Thanks!
Thanks, Lizzie…wishing you a marvelous Thanksgiving, too!
Lizzy-Such a nice addition to the holiday table, with a festive bourbon addition. Glazed carrots are one of our favorite too, and this is yummy.
Also love your pumpkin pie, with the cute little pumpkin designs. Superb recipes.
Your such a good wife and mom to prepare ahead of time the Thanksgiving feast for your hubby and daughter.
HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING with your boys, and parents!
Alisa, I’ll be happy to when I get home from my Thanksgiving holiday!
Mary and Bakingserendpity, thanks so much for the nice comments 🙂
Oh, these look so great! What a great twist on a carrot dish! (Your dog is soooo cute too!)
Great blog! Happy I found you!
Mary xo
Delightful Bitefuls (http://delightfulbitefuls.blogspot.com/)
I love glazed carrots, but have never made them like this before! These look fantastic! Wishing you a great Thanksgiving 🙂
Oh your dog is adorable.My dog makes that face too when he knows im doing something on the counter.I’ll make this today.It looks delicious.I came across your site from the foodieblogroll and I’d love to guide Foodista readers to your site. I hope you could add this Carrot widget at the end of this post so we could add you in our list of food bloggers who blogged about carrots, Thanks!
Kelly Marie and katerina, thanks so much for stopping by! I doubt I’ll buy another bottle of the bourbon maple syrup since it should be just as good with the substitution. Hope you enjoy!!!
I don’t know if we have bourbon maple syrup here in Greece, but even we don’t I can use plain maple syrup and add a splash of bourbon. They look delicious.
Lisa, my husband adores carrots glazed with brown sugar and butter, so he really liked these…and you’re right, up a notch from the typical veggies we eat!
Yum! Those look delish. I love carrots. I’m going to have to make this.
~ Kelly Marie (http://tasteoutloud.blogspot.com)
I didn’t know there was a bourbon maple syrup. What a neat flavor to add to carrots to really take them up a notch.