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Bacon, Sprouts & Apple Mash
One of the things I absolutely love about my new iPhone is the insane amount of recipe apps you can download for it. I’ve tried a few dutch apps, and in one of them I found this jewel of a recipe. Keep in mind that the Dutch are known for mashing the heck out of pretty much everything.
This recipe is not going to convert a convinced sprouts hater, but it’s a fun twist for those of you already in love with those green little cabbages.
It’s just an easy, basic, and pretty fast recipe that you can put on the table in roughly 30 mins and that doesn’t require exotic ingredients.
Perfect for a cold winter weeknight.
Ingredients:
2 pound potatoes
1 1/2 pound Brussels sprouts
2 golden delicious apples
9 oz bacon (in small pieces)
1 cup milk
1 tsp butter
pepper & salt
Optional: 1 dinner spoon grainy mustard
Directions:
It really can be this easy. Sprouts and potatoes.
A typical Dutch way of eating any type of ‘hodgepodge’ is to serve it with bacon bits (and optionally: smoked sausage). Key thing is to use a good quality bacon. I bought mine at the butcher shop.
Go for sweet and fresh apples, such as Golden Delicious.
Trim the stem and remove the unpretty outer layers. Peel the potatoes and put them in a large pot with a royal amount of salted water.
Bring the potatoes to a boil and set your timer to 15 minutes once they’re boiling.
Pour the milk into a seriously old and worn out Tupperware bowl. Or go for a fancier bowl. Or heat it on your stove.
Wash, dry and chop the apples. You can peel them if you like. Obviously I didn’t.
As soon as you hear that annoying timer beep, add the sprouts to the potatoes and boil everything for 10 more minutes.
Please, don’t cook the heck out of the sprouts. They should still be ever so lightly crunchy in the center. Overcooked sprouts are like snot.
That’s also your cue to cook the bacon in 1 tsp butter. I always give mine 10 minutes.
As soon as they start to get brown and crunchy after, give or take, 7 to 8 minutes.
Oh, just for the record: I also use the bacon grease. (I can almost hear you gasp now!). I don’t add extra butter to the mash and I don’t serve it with gravy, so it’s cool. Really.
Add the dices apples and give everything 3 to 4 more minutes.
Heat the milk now.
Drain the potatoes and sprouts.
I test every recipe I place on KK at least once when it’s not mine to begin with. Same applies to this recipe. I felt it lacked a little, how do I say that… zing? So I added grainy mustard. It was exactly what the dish needed.
Add the mustard, hot milk and coarsely mash it. Season with black pepper (and see if it needs extra salt).
Stir in the bacon bits and apples.
How easy do you want it? An absolutely gorgeous and tasty dinner in only 30 minutes.
Note:
I love the flavor combination of this dinner mash, but to me it really needs the grainy mustard. Next time I’m adding some sautéed onions and perhaps a little cheese as well.
Recipe adapted from Weekmenu app.
| Bacon, Sprouts & Apple Mash | |||||||||
| Ingredients |
1 1/2 pound Brussels sprouts 2 golden delicious apples 9 oz bacon (in small pieces) 1 cup milk 1 tsp butter pepper & salt Optional: 1 dinner spoon grainy mustard Directions |
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Wash, dry and chop the apples. You can peel them if you like. As soon as your timer goes off, add the sprouts to the potatoes and boil everything for 10 more minutes. Cook the bacon for 7 minutes in 1 tsp butter, until they get brown and crispy. Add the diced apples and cook everything 4 more minutes. Heat the milk. Drain the potatoes and sprouts. Add the mustard, hot milk and coarsely mash it. Season with black pepper (and see if it needs extra salt). Stir in the bacon bits and apples. Meal type: |
dinner, mash |
Servings: |
4 |
Copyright: |
© kayotickitchen.com |
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Je zou de spruitjes eVentueel kruislings kunnen insnijden, zodat ze gelijkmatig gaar worden. Kooktijd naar smaak aanhouden.
Lekker recept trouwens!
Spruitjes insnijden doe je eigenlijk alleen bij erg grote spruiten en dat is dan meer om ze sneller te laten garen. Als je dat bij alle spruitjes doet worden de kleintjes snotterig!
Adding the apple pieces seems a really good idea, I will try that sometime. Somehow, the combination of apple and bacon always tastes really good to me. Not so much to the boyfriend though..
Adding fried onion and (cream) cheese will make this dish a lot like your other brussel sprouts mash. Not that that is a bad thing ;)
Waw, super gerechtje! Opslaan en zo snel mogelijk plannen! Héérlijk in deze temperaturen!
Never cared for Brussels sprouts. Now you may have made me to reconsider the sprouts. This looks really good.
I love the flavour combo of this dish. The apple sounds like the perfect zingy sweetness to lift this out of being too heavy.
I’m a very recent convert to Brussels sprouts. Always hated them as my mum – not a good cook by any means – always cooked them to blubbery mush. Now that I found out that they are actually quite good, I am so gonna try this recipe next! I do tend to have more of the English apps.. Better recipes.. You gotta try Epicurious if you haven’t already!
This sounds delicious. I love a good stampot — but I discovered that roasted sprouts (about 20 minutes in a nice hot oven(400F, I think about 200 C) with a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper) are delicious. I think I will do that instead of boiling the sprouts when making this.
Hmmm not a bad idea. A little balsamic drizzled over them. Yup, gonna try it, too.
I never thought of adding apple to savory dishes until I made your Country Club chicken dish and my husband and I loved it. I think he would like this dish, too. Love Marieke’s idea to roast the brussel sprouts instead boiling them. I think I will saute’ onions with bacon and apples then add shredded cheddar cheese too. Can’t wait to try this!
Je hebt gedeeltelijk gelijk, maar ook oningesneden worden kleine spruitjes eerder gaar dan grotere en moet je er met de kooktijd rekening mee houden, toch? Anders worden die evengoed “snot”. Feit is dat ingesneden spruitjes gelijkmatig gaar worden. Dat het sneller gaat is ook een feit.
Ben een spruitenpurist, omdat ik ze hier in dit land niet kan krijgen , alleen met doorsnee 6 cm. :Dus op kleine spruiten uit holland ben ik zunig en heeeeeel voorzichtig en smul dan als een bezetene.
Hi Kay, for how many persons are your recipes and/or does it wary? Sorry, I could not find the info from here (or I’m blind).
I need to cook for 50 homeless persons soon in a volunteer event in Amsterdam and I’d like maybe use some of your recipes.
All that information is listed in the printable recipe!
I’ve just tried it today, love it! We have a similar recipe, in Catalonia, it’s called “trinxat” (=mashed) and it’s typical of the Pyrenees area. Instead of Brussel sprouts we use cabbage. No apples, and along with the bacon we also add black sausage. I may add apples from now on to our trinxat… ;) Thanks for the recipe!
We love Brussel Sprouts and being married to a Brit I don’t have to tell you how he feels about potatoes! What a great recipe and let’s face it: everything’s better with bacon!
Grappig, ik heb vorige week ook een soortgelijke maaltijd gemaakt, maar dan inderdaad met uien en zonder bacon; ik heb kerriepoeder toegevoegd, was erg lekker moet ik zeggen! De spruiten heb ik aangebakken ipv gekookt, dan karameliseren de suikers erin een beetje, geeft net een ander smaakje aan de groenten.
Ik ga jouw variant zeker ook proberen (everything tastes better with bacon ;))
Dit is een topper in ons gezin. Ik moet alleen niet zeggen dat het spruitjes zijn tegen de kinderen , dus bij ons heet het recept nu Kay’s stamp.
I just tried the recipe and because I’m really not a fan of sprouts I replaced the sprouts with chicory. It was quite good. But you are right that it needs al little mustard. I added a good scoop of dijon.
Made this yesterday for supper. It’s so darn good! I’m not a huge fan of Brussels sprouts, but this way it was so so yummy! A new favourite at home! I really love your blog! The photos are lovely and you are very funny. I like the Dutch Recipes part best. I have a Dutch friend and colleague and I’m kind of planning on doing a few of these recipes just to surprise him. He’s always bugging (in a nice way of course) me about my Portuguese cuisine. So I’ll show him I can cook Dutch too! LOL!
I tried this dish tonight to accompany T bone steak for a special Valentine dish. It is absolutely delicious! It reminded my husband a little of warm German Potato Salad. Very nice flavors together from potato, brussel sprouts, apples, and bacon. Thanks for sharing this recipe!