Roasting vegetables

[Night Elf]

I have a recipe that wants me to roast carrot sticks and white potatoes. It says to heat oven to 425, sprinkle veggies with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper and bake 20-25 minutes. Will that really make them soft in that short amount of time?

[slackermom]

If the pieces are small enough, yes, it will. At that temp, bite-sized pieces will be cooked through in 20-25 minutes. When I do bigger chunks (like 1/4 potato), I allow 40 minutes.

[SparklyUnicorn]

nope

 

Mine never cook within that amount of time.  Usually 2x that long.  I see this as the instruction a lot.  They must be talking about super tiny pieces!

 

 

[EMS83]

For comparison, our potato wedges (medium to large red potatoes cut into sixths) take about 45 minutes in a 400 degree oven.  And depending on how many there are, sometimes longer (if I do a whole 5 lb. bag, for example).

[Night Elf]

Ok I have white potatoes, a little bigger than a golf ball I guess. I'm supposed to cut those in half. And I'm taking one carrot and cutting it into 3rds then quartering each of those. This is the first time I'm following this recipe. I don't want the timing off. At those sizes, will 25 minutes be okay, or should I plan longer?

[Cinder]

We recently tried those small yellow potatoes that are about the size of a small bouncy ball. The directions say cut in half and bake at 425 for 10-15 mins. I didn't cut the smallest ones at all, the medium ones I cut in half and the large ones I cut into 3-4 pieces. Most were done in 15 but a few of the larger pieces needed about 3 more mins.

 

But when I roast white/russets they seem to take at least 30-40 mins with pieces cut about the same size as the yellow potatoes.

[SparklyUnicorn]

Ok I have white potatoes, a little bigger than a golf ball I guess. I'm supposed to cut those in half. And I'm taking one carrot and cutting it into 3rds then quartering each of those. This is the first time I'm following this recipe. I don't want the timing off. At those sizes, will 25 minutes be okay, or should I plan longer?

 

I'd plan for longer.

[Night Elf]

Ok, thank you! This is the first meal out of my Hello Fresh box. It's panko crusted fish. I'm nervous about cooking fish too. Just in case it turns out weird, I want the potatoes and carrots to be good! :)

[Happy]

I can roast potato wedges (maybe an eighth of a potato?) and one inch chunks of carrots at 425 degrees for about 25-30 minutes and they are done. It might depend on your oven and your preferred taste. I probably like mine a bit on the al denta side. 

 

Toss in an onion, too. 

 

In fact, this might be supper tonight. Sounds so good. 

[EmseB]

It always works for me with baby carrots, broccoli, small potaotes, etc.

[mmasc]

So, how was the meal? :)

[Χά�ων]

nope

 

Mine never cook within that amount of time. Usually 2x that long. I see this as the instruction a lot. They must be talking about super tiny pieces!

Ditto.

[Ausmumof3]

Ok I have white potatoes, a little bigger than a golf ball I guess. I'm supposed to cut those in half. And I'm taking one carrot and cutting it into 3rds then quartering each of those. This is the first time I'm following this recipe. I don't want the timing off. At those sizes, will 25 minutes be okay, or should I plan longer?

Those little tiny cocktail potatoes in half normally take about half an hour sometimes 35 minutes in a hot oven for me. They do roast pretty quick but I'd allow a bit more than 25 minutes especially if you are putting anything else in the oven at the same time.

[Night Elf]

My total roast time was 35 minutes and they were soft. They could have gone another 5 but I was afraid to burn them. The carrots were black but oh so delicious.