Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts #Recipe #Gluten-free by Maya Corrigan

I was never a fan of Brussels sprouts when I was growing up. It reminded me of cooked cabbage, which I also didn't care for. But I changed my mind about Brusssels sprouts after I tried roasting them. 

I adapted the roasting directions from a recipe on Budget Bytes. The balsamic glaze is my addition to the recipe.  

The recipe serves 2-3 as a side dish and is easily doubled.

Ingredients

1/2 lb. Brussels sprouts

1 Tbsp olive oil

1/8 tsp salt 

1/8 tsp garlic powder

1/8 tsp black pepper, preferably freshly ground

A drizzle of balsamic glaze

Preheat the oven to 400ºF.

Trim the dry core at the bottom of each sprout and remove any discolored outer leaves. Wash the sprouts. Cut each in half.

Place the Brussels sprouts with the cut side up on an aluminum foil lined pan.

Drizzle them with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, garlic powder, and pepper. Toss to coat the Brussels sprouts and turn them so the cut side is down. If the outer sides aren’t covered with oil, add a bit more oil and seasoning.

The roasting time depends on the size of the Brussels sprouts, anywhere from 15 minutes for small ones to 25 minutes to the big ones. For medium size sprouts, roast for about 20 minutes, or until they are browned and caramelized on the edges. Stir the Brussels sprouts at about 15 minutes to gauge the amount of browning on the cut side and poke one with a fork to make sure it has softened. If it’s firmer than you like, continue roasting. 

Remove the sprouts from the oven, taste one, and add more seasoning as needed. 

Drizzle balsamic glaze over them. BTW the vegetable tastes fine without the glaze too.

I used store-bought glaze. Most big supermarkets offer this sweet and vinegary mix, and Amazon sells a number of different ones. If you want to make your own, Peg Cochran shared directions for homemade glaze with her recipe for chicken with balsamic glaze. 

The photo shows the Brussels sprouts with the glaze, but its color is so similar to the caramelized sprouts that it's hard to tell where the glaze is.

 

READERS: Do you like Brussels sprouts and, if so, do you have a favorite way of serving them?

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Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mystery series. It features a young cafe manager and her young-at-heart grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. Maya has taught college courses in writing, literature, and detective fiction. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.

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Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan’s Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather – a sleuthing duo that shares a house, a love of food and cooking, and a knack for catching killers.

At the site of a fatal blaze, Val’s boyfriend, a firefighter trainee, is shocked to learn the victim is known to him, a woman named Jane who belonged to the local Agatha Christie book club—and was rehearsing alongside Val’s grandfather for an upcoming Christie play being staged for charity. Just as shocking are the skeletal remains of a man found in Jane’s freezer. Who is he and who put him on ice?

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