The holidays are upon us and we gotta show up to the family even with a side. Here’s an easy one that will probably blow the socks off whatever bland nonsense your other family members are bringing. Lets go.
I look at it outside you know what that means it’s fall that means the winter holidays are coming up that means we got to cook some sides for thanksgiving indigenous people’s day christmas the holidays hanukkah whatever someone teach you how to cook some sides and today it’s gonna be brussels sprouts
Sweet potatoes with some balsamic and honey glaze let’s go now here we got some brussels sprouts yup there’s the sweet potato i gather all your brussels sprouts that have probably hopefully been washed gathered and meticulously arranged them check that bottom little root thing out we’re chopping all of them suckers off
Chop those off discard the ends All right once you’ve got the the bottoms chopped off we’re going to slice these all in half long ways we need the flat sides so that we can fry them later they need to be able to lay down flat to get nice and crisp all right next up we got the sweet
Potato sweet potatoes are weird they got weird shapes uh yeah we’re going to shave them down we’re going to peel them you don’t have to but i think texture really it works better here and slice them and then we’re going to dice them be careful all right next
We’re going to get a boiling pot of water on we’re going to salt it get that salt maybe two tablespoons i don’t know next we’re gonna get a little um urine collection cup and we’re gonna dump some uh some balsamic glaze in there and some honey Probably about two three tablespoons of balsamic vinegar i’m gonna hit with like an even amount of honey you can go more or less with either of these it just depends on on your taste really make sure you always get the smallest vessel possible so that you can stir it and it makes it
A lot easier all right our boiling water should be ready now i’m gonna throw both the sweet potatoes and the brussels sprouts in there and we’re just gonna boil these for like three minutes and move them around aimlessly that always helps all right once they return to a boil you
Can turn them off probably three to four minutes you don’t want to go longer than that i’m gonna drain them out in our sink that definitely has a spoon in it then we’re going to put them in an ice bath an ice bath is just like half water half ice
Just move them around in there we need we need to stop them from cooking anymore because we don’t want them to turn to mush and then we’re going to put them on some paper towels or a towel just drain them dry them off because you do not want to put something wet
Into a frying pan with oil because then you’re going to get way too many splatters and it’s not going to brown properly all right so we’re going to hit the hit the saute pan turn it on to like a medium high check the dog and we’re gonna add in like a neutral oil
I use a neutral oil you could use uh you could use olive oil use a french cooking technique and just put your hand directly in the pan to check if it’s hot and then we’re going to arrange we’re going to arrange our vegetables on the flat side with the brussels sprouts
Into the hot pan i’m just going to let them fry away Hit em with some salt because you got you can never have too much seasoning until you do all right check them see no color yet not good all right yeah some colors happening not what we want yet there we go that’s what we’re looking for we’re looking for the crispy that’s
Really what we’re looking for all right so at this point jostle them around get everything moved around a bit throw in some crushed garlic if you want that’s just like a terribly crushed piece of garlic now we’re going to throw in a couple pads of butter move that around and next up
Next up we just we throw in some pepper because why not yup and then we’re going with the we’re going in with some rosemary and thyme you don’t need to put these i just i’m trying to be fancy you know what i mean get those all incorporated let them
Let them cook release a little bit of the fragrance yeah and then we’re gonna add in our balsamic balsamic and honey mixture and while we see in the frying pan right now that isn’t everything i prepped because i ran out of cooking space so i had to do it in two batches that’s
Why i didn’t use all the balsamic mixture So we’re just going to let this cook come together move it around we want the uh we want the sauce to like thicken up a little bit to coat all the vegetables yup mix it see it’s getting real thick everything’s coated all right we’re good to go
Can plate it up i added on a little bit of red pepper flakes cause that’s how i do all right yo so we finished this smells vinegary smells a little sweet let’s try it out i gotta get a little bit of both a little bitter a little sweet a little spicy
That’s good let’s go on for some more my dead ass just ate like half a plate of that i don’t want to be gassy daddy i’m gonna be glassy anyways you can make this not on the holidays you know what i mean you can make this one ever
But it tastes good bro it tastes good you should you should you should cook it you could probably cook that
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You have a great cadence to your voice! Also this looks bomb af, love sweet potatoes ^-^