Dishes from brussels sprouts

When we hurry home in the evening, we buy frozen burgers or grilled chicken for dinner in the nearest supermarket, completing the purchase with frozen garnish

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When we hurry home in the evening, we buy frozen burgers or grilled chicken for dinner in the nearest supermarket, completing the purchase with frozen garnish. Sometimes it"s a Mexican mix, or a spring mix, or even a bag of brussels sprouts. Usually we just boil it and serve with melted butter, although there are a number of delicious and appetizing dishes with brussels sprouts we could make. However, let"s first introduce the vegetable itself. It breaks all the stereotypes connected with cabbage, as its pronounced sweetish nut taste is nothing like that of cabbage. In Middle Ages brussels sprouts was grown in Flanders, i.e. Belgium. It looks like a small cabbage growing in rows on a long hard stem. The Germans call it Rosenkohl – "rose-cabbage" – right to the point as brussels sprouts resembles rose buds. When you buy brussels sprouts, choose the freshest, with small hard heads and tightly closed leaves. Before cooking the sprout, remove the stem and outer leaves, then cut the stalk crosswise, and the heads will cook evenly in boiling water. Bon appetit!

Pork With Brussels Sprouts

Ingredients:
(serves 4)
450 g brussels sprouts
salt
40 g butter
40 g flour
250 ml cream
pepper
nutmeg
4 pork steaks (150 g each)
4 tbsp sunflower oil

Cooking: Rinse the sprouts and make a cut on the stalk of each one. Blanche 5 min in salted water. Drain, reserving the stock. Melt the butter in a pan. Add the flour, stir, add the cream and 250 ml of the stock. Stir until smooth, bring to a boil. Add the sprouts. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Fry the steaks in the oil on both sides. Serve with the brussels sprouts.

Pork Fillet With Almond Crust

Ingredients:
(serves 4)
600 g brussels sprouts
600 pork fillet
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp breadcrumbs
1 bunch herbs
1/2 bunch parsley
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp butter
2 eggs
2 yolks
400 ml meat stock
100 g smoked brisket
750 g potatoes
2 onions
nutmeg
75 g almonds

Cooking: Boil the sprouts 25 min. Boil and mash the potatoes. Add the chopped parsley, the eggs and the flour. Add the salt, the pepper and the nutmeg. Make dumplings, boil them in salted water, then fry in 1 tbsp butter. Fry the meat in the melted butter. Mix the herbs and the almonds with the yolks, the breadcrumbs, pepper and salt, spread the meat with this mixture and bake 10 min at 200 C. Fry the onions in the cooking juices, stir in the stock and boil until reduces. Cut the brisket, melt and fry the brussels sprouts, carve the fillet and serve with the sprouts, the dumplings and the sauce.

Smoked Turkey With Orange Icing

Ingredients:
(serves 4)
1 kg brussels sprouts
250 g onions
1.5 kg smoked turkey breasts
2 tbsp orange marmalade
3 oranges
400 ml chicken stock
8 dried cloves
3 tbsp soured cream
4 tbsp sauce thickener
salt
pepper

Cooking: Make cuts on both ends of each sprout. Spread the meat with the marmalade. Peel one orange and cut the zest into thin strips. Squeeze the juice. Put the sprouts, the onions, the turkey the zest, the juice, the stock and the cloves in a baking foil sleeve. Seal and puncture with a needle in a few places. Bake 1 hour in the oven preheated to 150 С. Peel the remaining oranges and remove the membranes. Open the sleeve with the meat. Keep the turkey warm. Mix the brussels sprouts, the onions and the oranges pulp. Mix the cooking juices with the soured cream and the thickener, bring to a boil, season.

Brussels Sprout

Ingredients:
750 g brussels sprouts
50 g margarine
1/8 litre water
parsley
salt
nutmeg

Cooking: Remove bad leaves of the brussels sprouts and crisscross the stalks. Rinse, add to the heated margarine and shake, so the leaves get soaked with it. Season, add hot water, and simmer shaking occasionally (do not stir!). Serve sprinkled with fresh parsley. The recipe is also good for red cabbage stewed with tomato, Hollandaise or B

Bon appetite!