GMA Recipe: Stir-Fried Spicy Carrots With Peanuts

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Stir-Fried Spicy Carrots With Peanuts
From GMA's Food Editor, Sara Moulton

Stir-Fried Spicy Carrots With Peanuts
Good Morning America Food Editor Sara Moulton has written her first cookbook, Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, featuring some of her best family recipes. They're perfect for the busy parent.

Ingredients

1/4 cup unsalted peanuts

1 pound medium carrots

1 Tablespoon vegetable oil, preferably peanut

2 Tablespoons unsalted butter

1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes, or to taste

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Squeeze of fresh lime juice

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Put the peanuts in a shallow pan, and bake for 10 minutes.

3. Let cool and chop coarse.

4. Coarsely grate the carrots.

5. Melt the oil with the butter in a large wok or skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking.

6. Add the carrots and cook, stirring constantly until cooked evenly, about 5 minutes.

7. Stir in the peanuts and pepper flakes and season with salt and pepper.

8. Finish with a squeeze of lime juice and serve hot.

All recipes used with permission, excerpted from Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, by Sara Moulton, Broadway Books, Copyright October 2002.