Sprouts

[MFingSpoonLover]

AIBU to think if sprouts are so great, why does every recipe aimed at converting sprout-doubters involves a ton of bacon and/or covering them in cheese? Most things are nice covered in bacon and cheese.

Yes! I like my sprouts simply steamed. Sprinkle of salt.
I’d consider them ruined by bacon lardons (bleurgh…)

It’s just job creation for cookery writers. Just telling us how to cook a normal vegetable normally isn’t interesting enough to churn out everywhere, every year. It’d be more useful, though.

We all love sprouts in this house, even salad dodging autistic DS18. We tend to just have them steamed with a roast. But had a 5p Aldi bag to use up, so had sausages with bubble and squeak tonight. Probably the healthiest meal DS eats.

I love them and we eat them all year, not just at Christmas. We sometimes just eat them plain, sometimes (Christmas mainly) I fry them off with pancetta! Both tasty options.

There are lots of recipes that involve adapting or using sauces with vegetables.

Same applies to lots of other food.

A dry bit of chicken is less appetising than chicken that has been included in a recipe.

My dd and I like them raw, shredded into a salad or just eaten whole before/after our dinner but we eat most of our veg raw.

I love them roasted with chestnuts and lardons, but they kill my stomach unfortunately. So bloated and in pain for hours afterwards.

Loathed them as a kid, love them now, possibly even more than the meat.

If you don't like them, don't eat them.
Why get agitated about ways to prepare a vegetable?

Who is agitated (apart from you)?

It’s a lighthearted chat about a vegetable.

But don’t worry, I’ll go and flagellate myself with shame.

I love them just steamed or gently boiled. But that isn't a recipe, just a cooking method. So of course recipes involve adding other things. It's the difference between boiled cauliflower and cauliflower cheese. Steamed carrots and honey roasted carrots. Red cabbage sliced in a salad and braised red cabbage. Sprouts are just a vegetable like any other that can be cooked a multitude of ways, including adding other ingredients. If you don't like them, no amount of pairing with other ingredients will change that, so just don't eat them. More for the rest of us ☺️

Finely sliced red stir fried with a drizzle of sesame oil, yum!

I love just an ordinary, not overcooked sprout ! I also love nibbling leftover cold sprouts …

The very bestest sprout recipe: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/20/meera-sodhas-recipe-for-sprout-nasi-goreng?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Mind you, they are pretty great in any form.

Sprouts are my favourite vegetable. I hate it when people try to disguise their taste. I’ve eaten so many this week!
If you don’t like them don’t eat them. You’re a grown up!

We do actually like them plain, but not boiled to a mush. I simmer them for a max of 3 minutes after they’ve come to the boil.

Dh and I like all sorts of cabbage/brassicas, though. Last night we had sprouts and Savoy cabbage with sausages and mash.

The only good use for sprouts is to dip them in chocolate and give them to trick or treaters aged 15 and over at Halloween.

Marmite?! How? Not something I’ve thought of but I love marmite so I’m intrigued, do you stirfry or add after steaming?

I adore them, nice to have veg that tastes of veg

I either roast mine in garlic and soy rather than oil in th air fryer or stir fry in bouillon with a bit of fresh garlic and pomegranate. I also like them just steamed

Just steamed here. Not for too long as they shouldn't be soft, they are better with a bit of bite.

I shred up spare ones to go in soup.

One year I massively overbought so I used up the ones left in a Brussel sprout and Wensleydale soup. It was actually really nice

I loathe Brussels sprouts however they are cooked. Apparently some people taste them differently from others - something to do with having more bitter taste receptors on the tongue. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-some-people-hate-brussels-sprouts

I remember reading somewhere that if you have a certain gene (cant remember which) sprouts taste bitter no matter what you do with them but if you dont have the anti sprouts gene they taste great.
I guess all the sprouts haters have the anti sprouts gene

People cook them too much. They're delicious if cooked just a bit.
Try roasting them.

I do not like them when they are festering balls of green mush.

Like those of us to whom coriander tastes like Fairy Liquid😁!

I love sprouts however, just lightly boiled. I have heard that recent varieties have been bred to be less bitter. The best ever are those red ones like tiny red cabbages, but I haven't seen them in the shops for a couple of years now.

I love sprouts. Just very lightly cooked for a few minutes though, not boiled to mush.

I'd slice them in half and fry them with a few chopped chestnuts and a sprinkle of salt and garlic granules. No bacon lardons here as most of us are vegetarian.