Roasted Carrots and Fennel With Rose Petal Harissa

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This terrific roasted rootlike dish, which is served astatine country temperature, depends connected the spirit of its bright, rose-scented harissa. Lime, roseate petals and roseate h2o each lend a faint floral finishing enactment to the sensation of the condiment.

Be definite to abstraction the vegetables evenly connected the baking sheet; you privation them to crisp and brown, not steam.

Dried roseate petals and roseate h2o are disposable astatine Mediterranean markets.

The dried chilies for the harissa request to soak for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to 1 day. The harissa needs to cure successful the refrigerator for 1 time earlier serving; it tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 2 months. (You’ll person rather a spot near implicit aft you marque the carrot-fennel recipe.)

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6

For the harissa

3 ounces dried guajillo chile peppers, stemmed (not seeded)
1 1/2 ounces dried ají amarillo chile peppers (also sold arsenic ají mirasol), stemmed (not seeded)
Just-boiled water
2 1/2 tablespoons caraway seed
2 tablespoons cumin seed
1 tablespoonful coriander seed
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
About 3 ample cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 spoon dried roseate petals (see headnote)
10 tablespoons to 12 tablespoons lime foodstuff (from 4 to 6 limes), oregon much arsenic needed
1/4 spoon roseate h2o (see headnote)
1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil, positive much for storing
1 tablespoonful to 1 1/2 tablespoons kosher salt, oregon much arsenic needed

For the vegetables

2 bunches mean carrots (6-inch carrots, astir 12 ounces), trimmed but not peeled, chopped successful fractional lengthwise
2 mean fennel bulbs, chopped into 1/2-inch-thick slices done the halfway (core is not discarded)
1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil, positive much arsenic needed
2 teaspoons crunchy sel gris (gray salt)
Flaked oversea salt, specified arsenic Maldon oregon Jacobsen, for finishing
1 1/2 cups plain European-style whole-milk yogurt, oregon Greek yogurt thinned with a spot of olive oil, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6, without the yogurt)

Calories
90
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
12 g
Sodium
640 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories," by Renee Erickson with Jess Thomson (Sasquatch Books, 2014).

Tested by Sandhya Babu.

Published December 30, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026