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These are the BEST brussel sprouts EVER. Even confirmed sprout-phobes will LOVE these! My kids are always excited when they know we’ve having these for dinner: “Yay! Brussel Sprouts!”. Honest. We love these for any extended-family gathering during “sprout season”: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, etc. Mmmmmmm……..<\/p>\n
Roasted Brussel Sprouts<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 pounds fresh Brussel sprouts, washed and cut in half (remove any outer leaves that have evidence of bug bites or discoloration and cut rough bottom of stem off)<\/p>\n about 1\/4 cup olive oil (or maybe less – you need JUST enough to lightly coat the sprouts so they don’t stick to the pan)<\/p>\n 1 cup chopped pancetta (Italian bacon)<\/p>\n 3 minced (or pressed) garlic cloves<\/p>\n about 1\/4 cup balsamic vinegar (I like WHITE balsamic for this, since it doesn’t change the color of the sprouts as much as red balsamic, but either is great)<\/p>\n 1 Tbsp. fresh thyme leaves (removed from woody stems)<\/p>\n salt and fresh ground pepper<\/p>\n Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place brussel sprouts, garlic and pancetta in a very large baking pan (the biggest you have – I use a “half-sheet” cake pan). Drizzle olive oil over and then gently fold so that oil is evenly coating all sprouts. Sprinkle with salt and pepper (about 1\/4 tsp salt and a little less pepper). Bake about 20 – 25 minutes, stirring about every 5 minutes, until sprouts are tender and bacon is crisped (sprouts will be lightly browned). Add thyme and vinegar. Stir and return to oven for 5 more minutes. Remove from oven. Stir one more time and serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are the BEST brussel sprouts EVER. Even confirmed sprout-phobes will LOVE these! My kids are always excited when they know we’ve having these for dinner: “Yay! Brussel Sprouts!”. Honest. We love these for any extended-family gathering during “sprout season”: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, etc. Mmmmmmm…….. Roasted Brussel Sprouts 2 pounds fresh Brussel sprouts, washed … Continue reading “Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Pancetta”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-side-dishes-veggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}