This is another vegetable that I didn't eat when I was a kid - my mother had an aversion to them when she was a child - and kept telling me and my sisters that brussel sprouts were used as a form of punishment at her dinner table as a child. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when she had some on the stove and professed her love for them with garlic! So.... it goes to show, cooked the right way you can eat almost anything - even if you bare childhood scars.
My frills? They love, love LOVE these too. And every time I've made them recently I always say I'll make more, but still, there never seems to be enough. It seems strange right? We're talking about brussel sprouts... Good thing it only takes about 20 minutes to make. Totally worth every minute.
Ingredients:
500g brussel sprouts
2 tb olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely diced
100g sliced pancetta, diced
3/4 cup chicken stock
Method:
Steam your brussel sprouts for about 5 minutes in the microwave or 10 minutes on the stove.
Meanwhile, heat oil in pan, add garlic and pancetta, and cook for about 1-2 minutes.
Add back the brussel sprouts and chicken stock. Place lid on pot and cook for a further 5 minutes.
Serve.
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7 lovely comments:
Yum, Liss. Love Brussells. Have you tried them baked? I cut them in half, toss in olive oil, grind over black pepper, onto a flat oven tray, 25 minutes at 180°C.
But I like your idea with the pancetta and the stock. In fact I've taken to cooking all sorts of vegetables in a puddle of chicken stock.
Ewwwww brussel sprouts!!! Although, given your track record, I'm going to trust you on this one and will give it go later in the week. They better be good ;)
xx
I'd add a few toasted pine nuts to this and absoute heaven!!! Nice work Liss.
I also like them roasted with bulbs of unpeeled garlic that goes all soft and gooey and then gets tossed through the cooked sprouts with a drizzle of olive oil, yum!
NOTHING can make brussel sprouts palatable. Dip em in arsenic and they'd be an improvement.
is this some kind of seriously late april fools madness?
I thought the only way to eat them was smothered in mashed potato and gravy and hold your nose.
I might have to try this way... skeptical though.
very skeptical.
I'm only doing it because they are so nutritious - and because it's you.
love my brussel sprouts, always have but haven't eaten them in ages!
Have just added the ingredients to tonights shopping list :D Can't wait to try this version, thanks!
Oh, yes, yes, yes. I do love brussells sprouts... A fact I kept well hidden growing up for fear of ridicule! Brussells lovers unite! Am going to try them this way for my equally enamoured 4yo (the husband is yet to be won over). Thanks!
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