Burnt sprouts with pomegranate & sesame

Burnt sprouts with pomegranate & sesame

By Barney Desmazery
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Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 mins

Easy

Serves 4
Add a deliciously different side dish to your Christmas dinner spread with these pan-fried Brussels sprouts and juicy pomegranate seeds, drizzled with pomegranate molasses

Nutrition and extra info

  • Vegetarian

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal205
  • fat16g
  • saturates4g
  • carbs8g
  • sugars7g
  • fibre6g
  • protein4g
  • salt0.2g
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Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp rapeseed or sunflower oil
    Sunflower oil

    Sunflower oil

    Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…

  • 400g Brussels sprouts, halved
    Brussels sprouts

    Brussels sprouts

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    The quintessential Christmas dinner veg, Brussels sprouts are thought to have been cultivated in…

  • 25g cold butter, diced
    Butter

    Butter

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    Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…

  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 100g pomegranate seeds
  • drizzle of pomegranate molasses

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Put the sprouts in the pan, cut-side down, and leave them to sizzle away happily for 10 mins without disturbing them.

  2. Halfway through cooking, dot over the butter and leave it to sizzle and brown – the sprouts need to be really crispy and dark brown. If they are just lightly brown, carry on cooking for another 5-10 mins.

  3. Scatter over the sesame seeds and stir-fry everything until the seeds are toasted. Off the heat, toss through the pomegranate seeds, then season the sprouts with salt and tip into a serving dish. Drizzle with the pomegranate molasses before serving.

  • Recipe Tip

    'Burnt' greens

    'Burning' your greens sounds like something to avoid, but it can give them a whole new depth of flavour that's like the addictive crispy seaweed (basically cabbage) you get in Chinese restaurants. The art to burning sprouts or cabbage is to sizzle them gently so by the time the cut side is deep brown, the rest of the vegetable has wilted in the heat.

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SiNZ
13th Mar, 2016
5.05
A very interesting and enjoyable take on sprouts. Never liked them as a kid. Grown to quite like them steamed, providing they remain firm. Burning them changes them completely - you wouldn't know it was a sprout. I didn't have pomegranate so used dried cranberries (halving the amount, as per google advice). Went a wee bit astray when I discovered I still had the heat on after adding cranberries (was doing a meal with five elements on and turned off the wrong one!) so the cranberries were a tad caramelised but overall a hit. Will definitely do again, though I'd like to track down some pomegranate seeds.
elizabeth60
3rd Jan, 2016
My son-in-law doesn't like sprouts - but does like pomegranate. I did some sprouts this way on Christmas day and he ate three, so the recipe was considered a hit. He couldn't show his new son that he wouldn't even try a new food.
catie74
18th Dec, 2015
Tried this out yesterday. Loved it served at room temperature as a salad with cold meats
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