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Sprouts With Chestnuts and Bacon Recipe

Brussels sprouts with bacon and chestnuts

Name: Brussels sprouts with bacon and chestnuts
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1kg brussels sprouts; 6 rashers smoked streaky bacon chopped; 200g chestnuts vacuum-packed; 1 knob butter

Published: March 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM

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Serves 8

Easy

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Salty bacon and sweet chestnuts take the bitterness out of sprouts in this easy recipe. The perfect Christmas side dish to complement your roast turkey.

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Complete the dish

Make these Brussels sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, then check out our recipes for honey roast parsnips, roasted chestnuts and Christmas red cabbage.

Ingredients

1kg brussels sprouts
6 rashers smoked streaky bacon

chopped
200g chestnuts

vacuum-packed
1 knob butter

Method

step 1

Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, then tip in 1kg brussels sprouts and cook for 5 minutes. Drain and then run under tap water until cold.
step 2

Heat a large frying pan, add 6 chopped rashers of smoked streaky bacon and fry until crisp and golden. Tip out of the pan, leaving the fat behind, then add 200g vacuum-packed chestnuts and fry until tinged. Tip out of the pan.
step 3

Add the sprouts to the pan with a splash of water, then cover and finish cooking, until just tender. Uncover, turn up the heat, then add a knob of butter and fry the sprouts for 2 minutes more. Tip in the bacon and chestnuts, season, then serve with another knob of butter on top.

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