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Ingredients
- 1/2 pound brussels sprouts
- 4 strips of bacon
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Salt and pepper to season
Preparation
Step 1
* *Cut* the ends from the sprouts and discard. *Peel* off the leaves, reserving them, and *discard or thinly slice* the tight, innermost heads.
* *Heat* a sauté pan and *fry* the bacon until crisp; *remove* to paper towel to drain. *Pour* all but a tablespoon of fat from the pan. *Add* the butter, to melt. *Toss* the leaves in, and *sauté* until tender, 15 to 20 minutes.
* *Season*, stir in the bacon, and serve.
* *Alternately* do what I did. I hadn't cooked the bacon and by the time dinner came around, I didn't feel like sauteing the sprouts so I threw them in a pan, drizzled them with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper and roasted at 400 for 20 minutes. They were crispy and yummy! Even Dan liked them. I was cooking something else for 20 minutes and pretty much ignored this - wouldn't hurt to stir them once or twice and take them out a bit before 20 minutes - some of them were pretty black.