Brussels sprouts are in season now. These little green globes still attract either love or hate.
Ingredients
| 1 to taste | Salt |
| 500 g | Brussels sprouts |
| 2 pieces | Bacon, thick |
| 1 pinch | Chilli flakes |
| 1 Tbsp | Soy sauce |
| 1 | Lemon, zest only |
| 1 to taste | Salt & freshly ground pepper |
| 1 dash | Olive oil |
| 1 | Lemon, juice of whole |
Directions
- Cook 500g of small Brussels sprouts in boiling salted water for about 5 minutes until tender, drain and when cool cut in half.
- Keep all the leaves that may have fallen away during the cooking.
- In a heavy pan fry two thick rashers of bacon cut into strips.
- When crisp, add the Brussels sprouts and toss together with a pinch of chilli flakes and 1tbsp of soy sauce.
- Zest a lemon across the top of the mix, season with salt and pepper, add a dash of olive oil and the juice of half a lemon.