Brussels sprouts with pancetta

I took the advice of previous comments and cooked the sprouts for a bit longer than 3 minutes although they were still al dente. Not a v exciting way to do sprouts but OK.

Love these sprouts! For extra flavour, try boiling the sprouts in chicken stock! its yum! And I prefer to cook them in the pancetta/fat for a bit longer to get a little crispy on the outside

You'll have to blanche/boil the sprouts for longer than 3 minutes, probably double that. They'll be hard and taste unpleasant and the extra 3 minutes stir frying won't make much difference.

I made this last year and will do again for xmas, it all depends on the size of your sprouts as to how long you cook them, i will add some pine nuts to bacon and some garlic, i never stick to a recipe you have to play around.

The sprouts were almost raw after 4 minutes - they were from Waitrose so were of a good size but frankly this is a lousy recipe - I realised that they were underdone and thought the stir fry would soften them - but no - they were virtually raw. I can eat and enjoy them like that but my family left…

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