Air Fryer Carrot Fries!

 Yes, carrot fries.  My sister sent me a group on Facebook called Easy Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes which I immediately joined.  (Eventually I will need to stop joining groups or I would spend all my time there but that is not the direction I am going. I am trying to get away from media....). The recipe they have for these carrot fries has some aspects I am just not going to do but this is what I did:

Cut up a cup or so of carrots into fry-like shape.  I did not have full length carrots, just "baby-like" carrots which were just big carrots ground down to baby size.  That was no problem. I just cut them in half lengthwise and if they were very large, I cut them in quarters.

At this point I put them in a bowl of water while I put the seasoning together. 

The seasoning I used was:

Granulated onion--1/4 teaspoon
Granulated garlic--1/4 teaspoon
Ground black pepper--1/4 teaspoon
Pink salt--1/2 teaspoon
Italian Herb Seasoning Grinder (Sam's Club brand)--1 teaspoon

 These seasonings I put in a small bowl and mixed well.  At this point I drained the carrots from the water then sprinkled on the flavoring and tossed well. 

Here they are with their coating of seasoning.  The recipe called for a good amount of oil.  (We are not adding oil to anything currently.  I will let you know how that turns out in a month or two or three...!). I thought I would try just tossing the wet carrots in the herbs. It worked just fine.  They were actually pretty nice even raw.

 I placed them on the rack in the Ninja Foodie Air Fryer we have (It has a nice big rack) and turned on the air fryer to 400 degrees F for 10 minutes.  At 5 minutes I shook them up a bit then put them back in to cook the rest of the 10 minutes.  I tasted one and decided to let them go another 5 minutes.

The verdict:  these are pretty darn good!  Dear One's verdict: they are not cooked.  He was thinking they would be soft all the way through like potato fries.   Because of that I will try again but par-cook the carrots and see how they go.  Will let you know another day!  BUT I will say that the bowl that was placed next to Dear One did go down pretty fast so I guess they were not THAT bad!