Spotlight on sprouts!
I made a rather epic roast dinner yesterday, and for me the sides nearly always steal the show – like this easy little sprouts dish with a delicious maple syrup and balsamic vinegar dressing.
Here we* parboiled some sprouts for only about 5 mins, adding the leaves from the sprout stalk in the last couple mins. This was then refreshed under cold water to stop the cooking. In a separate pan, a pack of pancetta lardons were crisped up, with most of the fat drained off before chucking in the sprouts to fry off a little. A couple mins later a pouch of sweet roasted chestnuts were stirred through for seasonal nuttiness, then everything was tossed in a maple-balsamic dressing – simply made with 1 part balsamic vinegar to 2 parts maple syrup (I love the sweet, salty combo with the pancetta in this dish too!). A pinch of sea salt and black pepper later and this was ready in under 20mins. Maybe a little inspo for your festive dishes? ?
*…I say we as TBH Matt did most of the work on this one, since I was busy with work (and he’d be gutted if I took allll the )…!
Yummy ???
Looks gorgeous
Sprouts never looked so good! ?
Try this with Savoy cabbage, also delicious!
Beautiful looking sprout combo!!! ??
This is a great dish replacing the pancetta with chorizo ?
Looks fantastic ???
Looks delicious ! ???
This looks so yummy ?
They look really tasty ?..
Yum! This looks awesome?
Love these little beauties?
Yum, I love sprouts! ?
We love a chestnuts and sprouts combo! ?
Delish sprout recipe!? We recently featured a lovely warm sprout salad on our page ?
Delicious. I love the leaves of the stalk. Looks yummy ?
Looooove sprouts?
I love the new take, I still dream about your (Matt’s?) 🙂 Maple ones a from our final Thanksgiving together! I try but always fail to truly execute those!
Sounds incredible- we usually do something similar with sprouts by pan-frying them with bacon and adding poppy seeds for texture. Maple syrup combo sounds great though!
this looks bomb??
Delish??
Sprouts and bacon are the only way I’ll eat them haha
Give me all the winter veggies