Crushed sprouts with nutmeg brown butter

Serves: 8
Course: Side Dish
Cooking Time: 0 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
  • 100g butter
  • One third of a nutmeg, grated
  • 500g Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved
  • Salt and black pepper

1 Put the butter into a pot and put over a low to medium heat.

2 Without stirring, allow it to melt and bubble.

3 A foam will appear after a short time, turn the heat down.

4 After a minute or so, the foam will settle and start to turn an amber colour
around the edges. Remove from the heat, add the nutmeg then set aside.

5 Cook the sprouts in a pot of salted water.

6 They need to be soft all the way through, while still keeping their colour.

7 Drain them and mix with the brown butter, salt and pepper.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford