Glazed Carrots

Bright orange carrots are a great addition to the vegetable color wheel, but until the late 1500s, most people knew them as a primarily purple vegetable. Here’s the story: Dutch growers found some mutant orange strains of the then-standard purple carrot and developed the sweet, bright version of the vegetable that we know today. All these years later, the purple and the orange types of carrots might finally get together. The Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M has developed a purple-skinned, orange fleshed carrot, Beta Sweet, that’s beautiful, delicious and high in beta-carotene.