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Nutrition: per serving

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

  • step 1

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

  • step 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.

  • step 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 TIPS
‘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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2015

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jdkenny

question

Can the Brussels sprouts be prepare and chatted the day before and reheated the next day and assembled with the rest of the ingredients ?

jdkenny

Can the sprouts be prepared and charred day ahead and reheated the next day and then mixed with the remainder of the ingredients ?

jo91963

question

Presumably this would work well in an air fryer?

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goodfoodteam

Hi, thanks for your question. We haven't tried it in the air fryer but it should work well. We hope this helps. Best wishes, BBC Good Food Team.

iznlps4uvDk8UyE4

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so good! throwing in a handful of coarse-chop toasted walnuts is good also. But this is just FINE on it's own.

SiNZ

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

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…

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