spruce up your sprouts

NekoZombie

I'm currently planning my Christmas menu and am thinking of a nice way to serve sprouts. I found a lovely recipe for stir fried sprouts, fresh chilli and soy sauce, but I'm not sure this will go with the turkey. Has any one got any ideas?

Penelope_Penguin

I love sprouts :j With Christmas dinner we have them plain steamed - too many other flavours going on to add another.

If you disagree :rolleyes: this older thread has great ideas - Brussel sprouts.

Penny. x

stressedoutmumof1

I'm doing brussel sprouts with pancetta this year.

champys

i can think of 2 that might work: first of all, you can serve them in a cheese sauce made with gorgonzola.

another way is doing them in the oven as follows: boil the sprouts 5 minutes max. cut some thick slices of bacon into strips (or use lardons). thinly slice an onion into half moons. mix these three ingredients together, place them in an oven dish, sprinkle with some thyme and drizzle with olive oil. bake uncovered in a 200° oven for about 20 minutes.

the classic one for christmas is to serve sprouts mixed with cooked sweet chestnuts, but whenever i try that the chestnuts refuse to peel or disintegrate into crumbs.

rockie4

Finely chopped onion cooked in butter, add chestnuts (home cooked or from a tin) then add freshly boiled sprouts stir all together and serve!
We have them like that every year with Christmas dinner - delicious!

belfastgirl23

bin them **shiver**

only joking...though I really don't like them personally.

Best way I ever ate them was fried up with garlic...though it does kind of miss the point of having them I guess...

PasturesNew

Don't muck about with a traditional dinner.
Cook them as usual - chuck in some hot chestnuts to serve with them.

People faffing with traditions can really spoil the day for some

Pink.

Hi Nekozombie,

There's an older thread with ideas for sprouts that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

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Tracey04

what can I do with a big bag of them. Ta T

Pink.

Hi tracey,

There's an older thread with lots of ideas that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the replies together.

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