I remember hating cooked carrots as a kid. Of course, I wasn’t a huge fan of raw carrots either, but cooked carrots were a special kind of torture.

Luckily for me, my girls LOVE cooked carrots, so I don’t have to go through the ordeal that my mom did to try to get me to eat them. My girls request cooked carrots all the time and actually cheer when they find out we’re having them.

So I figure that either means they’re starving and just thrilled that I’m actually feeding them. Or they REALLY love these carrots.

I suppose it may have something to do with the brown sugar we add… but hey, they’re still happily eating vegetables!

These carrots that my girls absolutely adore are so simple, it’s a little bit embarrassing. They’re so simple, in fact, that they don’t even require an actual recipe. But they’re just so good, I couldn’t NOT share.

Brown Sugar Carrots

Cook up a mess o’ carrots. You can use whole baby carrots, but I like to go old school with the whole carrots, peeled and sliced at an angle.

Cover them with water – add a bit of salt – and boil them until tender. Then take them off the heat, drain off the water, and return the carrots to the pot.

Now here’s where it gets good. You need a pat of butter, a handful of brown sugar, and a few shakes of dill weed.

Yes, yes, it’s all very technical.

Melt the pat of butter over the carrots and stir to coat each piece of carrot in yummy, melty butter.

Toss in the handful of brown sugar and a few shakes of dill weed.

It should look something like this.

Then just stir it up until the brown sugar has dissolved and voila! Cooked carrots that your kids will beg for.

How do you get your kids to eat their veggies?

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