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Get your sprouts out! I adore sprouts and especially these sprouts with chorizo crumb and smoky piquillo pepper sauce. It will be just perfect for your festive table.
I love my greens and clearly you do too, and sprouts get such stick but they can be fabulous. I have lots of ideas and I am going to get as many of them to you as I can before Christmas. So, get your sprouts out and let’s get started!
Dressing up your sprouts
Piquillo peppers are a terrific ingredient. Specific Spanish red peppers with a thick skin that are charred over a fire until they can be peeled, they have great flavour, smokey, peppery and rich. However, they are a little expensive and are a rare treat for me for times like this. If you can’t get piquillo peppers or want to keep the budget down, regular roasted red peppers will do just fine, by jar or homemade. Roast red peppers are sweeter than piquillo peppers so you should omit the sugar and add the lemon juice to taste.
Make it veggie! You can use a hard cheese in place of the chorizo. Make it vegan! Use yeast flakes and a little more almond in place of the chorizo.
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How to Make Cappelletti in Brodo from San Marino for Christmas Lunch
Ingredients
- Servs 4-6 as a side as part of a meal
- 450g sprouts, cut into halves / quarters depending on size
- 250ml boiling water
- 50g chorizo (I used cooking chorizo but you can use either)
- 50g breadcrumbs
- 2 cloves garlic
- 100g piquillo peppers
- 100ml extra virgin olive oil
- Juice of half a lemon
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp Spanish paprika (hot or sweet - to taste)
- 1 sprig of rosemary, needles only
- Sea salt to taste
- 50g almonds, toasted (you can toast them quickly yourself in a dry frying pan in just a few minutes, stirring or tossing as you do)
- Paprika flakes and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil to finish (a sprinkle of paprika is fine if you can’t get the flakes)
- Olive oil for frying
Instructions
Looks delicious ?