Wise Carrots

Total Time: 58 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 43 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb carrot
• 3 ounces flour
• 1 1/2 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
• 1 pinch sage
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 tablespoons bacon drippings or 2 tablespoons meat drippings

Recipe

• 1 heat your oven to 400°f.
• 2 mix the flour, cheese, sage, salt and pepper in a mixing bowl.
• 3 peel or scrub the carrots and cut them into small chunks.
• 4 place the carrots in a pan of boiling, salted water and bring back to the boil.
• 5 cover and cook for 3 minutes.
• 6 drain the carrots and, while hot, drop a few at a time into the cheese mixture.
• 7 shake the bowl to ensure a good even coating, and then transfer to a tray.
• 8 place the dripping in a roasting tin and heat in the oven.
• 9 when hot, remove the tin from oven and place the coated carrots in it.
• 10 spoon the hot fat over the carrots, return to the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes, turning over after 20 minutes.
• 11 the cheese mixture will coat the carrots best while they are steaming.
• 12 to keep them steamy, drain only a few at a time.