Maple Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Sweet Potatoes - My Gorgeous Recipes (2024)

Published: Jul 23, 2019 · Modified: Oct 2, 2022 by Daniela Apostol · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

Maple Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Sweet Potatoes, a delicious and healthy side dish for your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Super easy to make, and super flavourful, this dish has a festive touch. Only one tray needed, to save you time and effort. A family-favourite side.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and not long till Christmas either. No time to wonder where the year has gone, there is so much preparation to do for the two big holidays. And since Thanksgiving comes first, I'm sure all those pumpkin goodies have already been carefully selected for the day.

And what does a good roast need most? A good side dish, of course. And here is the thing, love them, or have them, Brussels sprouts must be the most popular veggies at this time of the year.

Not sure why the hate towards all green veggies, but yeah, they are not really on a favourite veggie list. If kids look funny at brussels sprouts, this combo of sprouts and sweet potatoes, topped with yummy bacon and glazed with maple syrup might make them change their mind.

Ingredients needed

• sweet potatoes - medium size
• Brussels Sprouts -fresh ones are the best for this recipe
• bacon lardons - for bacon rashes chopped up
• olive oil
• maple syrup
• salt
• dried mixed herbs - thyme, rosemary, basil, oregano, marjoram

Variations

Of course, you can throw in any other veggies, like shallots, carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, pumpkin, some cloves of garlic, and even sprinkle some parmesan over when you get them out of the oven.

Step-by-step photos and instructions

• first, spread the bacon lardons or bacon slices over a roasting tray, and pop in the oven for 10 minutes until slightly cooked
• add the chopped veggies drizzled with olive oil, maple syrup and seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs
• roast for a further 40 minutes or until the veggies are tender

Expert tips

Surely, the easiest way to cook sprouts them would be boiling for about 10 minutes until tender, but you would never get the same depth of flavours you get from roasting.

And since the prep is minimal, and all you have to worry about is ONE PAN TO CLEAN AFTER, it only makes sense to go for the roasting option.

A few tips here to get the most of your roasted brussel sprouts dish. Make sure the oven is well preheated before adding the bacon first. The bacon will release quite some fat, I used bacon lardons, but you can also use a few rashes of bacon and chop them up.

After 10 minutes, add the maple coated brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes, and roast for a further 40 minutes, until everything is cooked through.

If you add everything together from the beginning, the veggies will become too greasy from the fat released by the bacon, which is why I prefer partially cooking the bacon first, then add some olive oil to the veggies. It's a lot healthier this way, and a lot lighter too.

Other brussel sprout recipes

Chicken and Brussel Sprout Casserole

Brussel Sprout Slaw

Pan-Fried Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Parmesan

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