Good golly, this is the best, quickest and easiest side dish you'll make this grilling season. And assembling and cooking it in foil means simple clean-up.
“Is there leftover green stuff?" - BF's teenager, actually requesting more Brussels sprouts (not realizing, of course, that they were Brussels sprouts)
Ingredients
Fresh Brussels sprouts (you can get them in a bag in the produce section)
Bacon, cooked and chopped/crumbled (I'd say at least 4 strips)
2-3 Tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
Salt and pepper, to taste
Preparation
- Cook and chop up your bacon ahead of time.
- Cut the stemmy end off your Brussels sprouts (and discard).
- Cut each sprout in half, then finely chop with a good, sharp knife. Other recipes may tell you to shred using a grater or food-processor, but chopping into fine strips works just fine.
- Mound the sprouts on a sheet of tin foil. Pile on the bacon. Dot with slices of butter. Salt and pepper, as you wish.
- Wrap the foil around the ingredients and seal up the ends, creating a flat packet of foil.
Cooking & Serving:
Place the packet on a heated grill (direct heat) for 15-20 minutes. Carefully open the steamy packet and slide contents onto a serving plate. Fabulous alongside anything you're grilling: steaks, hamburgers, chicken breasts, kabobs.
A Little Backstory:
This is Brian's recipe, but I'll gladly adopt this dish as my own -- and you will too! Grilling should be an easy, communal activity where you spend more time talking with friends or playing bocce ball in the yard than making some tedious recipe in the kitchen. Assemble this before your guests arrive and literally toss the packet on the grill 15 minutes before serving. If you don't have room on the grill, it could go in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes.
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