Twice Cooked Brussels Sprouts with Bacon

February 2012 Recipe #5

Ingredients:

5 strips of bacon cut into pieces
1 bushel of brussels sprouts cut length wise
1 handful of garlic cloves
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of butter
Salt and Pepper

Steps:


1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Heat ovenproof skillet over medium heat and add cut bacon.

2. Once bacon is cooked remove bacon and place it in a bowl for later.



3. Place sprouts cut side down and garlic on skillet and cook for 5 minutes.


4. Add butter to skillet and swirl around and flip the sprouts around. Add salt and pepper and stick the skillet into the oven for 20 minutes.













Finished Product:

I should just call this blog: Something, something, Brussels Sprouts because all I do is cook brussels sprouts. I'm fine with that because I am awesome at cooking these little guys. I recently talked to a chef at one of the finer restaurants in New York and I asked him straight out: How do you cook brussels sprouts? He didn't even hesitate and said: Bacon fat. I decided I needed to make sprouts with bacon fat and that's the reason why I wanted to make this dish. I already had some bacon in my fridge from my previous culinary adventure so this made a lot of sense for my wallet as well.

Brussels sprouts are just great when you cook them long enough. If they're undercooked at all it's shit. So my theory is cook them just until burnt and even then nothing is lost. I will eat the burnt shards of brussels sprouts over an undercooked sprout any day.

5 out of 5 Stars