Brussels sprout and bacon salad

Michael Craig

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

1. Cook 500g of small Brussels sprouts in boiling salted water for about 5 minutes until tender, drain and when cool cut in half.
2. Keep all the leaves that may have fallen away during the cooking.
3. In a heavy pan fry two thick rashers of bacon cut into strips.
4. When crisp, add the Brussels sprouts and toss together with a pinch of chilli flakes and 1tbsp of soy sauce.
5. 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.