Recipe: Grilled Marinated Carrots, Strained Yoghurt and Curry Leaves Recipe

Carrots are one of those vegetables I’ve never felt particularly excited about. They’re essential as a sweet foundation in mirepoix, in stock, in… carrot cake but I just feel generally quite bored by them. I do not often think of a carrot as a starting point to a dish and get And yet. There are ways of cooking carrots that make them more interesting and it will come as no surprise that I think they are best cooked over live fire. The real trick here though is marinating them. I let these sit overnight in a bath of olive oil, spices and garlic, although a few hours would be fine. They’re then grilled until tender and charred in places before meeting a plate of cold (so crucially cold!) strained yoghurt and some mustard seeds and…