Roasted Brussels Sprout Salad with Tahini Dressing.

This Christmas Roasted Brussels Sprout Salad with Tahini Dressing is our new Christmas salad! Festive, simple to make forward, and so scrumptious. Thinly sliced Brussels sprouts, nutty parmesan and manchego cheese, heat brown butter toasted breadcrumbs, crispy prosciutto, and candy cranberries. All tossed with a scrumptious creamy tahini dressing. Salty, crunchy, tangy, and tacky, this salad is bursting with taste. Serve alongside your favourite dinner or at your subsequent vacation gathering!

I couldn’t let the week go by with out sharing our official 2023 Christmas salad! I appear to create a brand new vacation salad yearly. And searching again, I see that so a lot of them spotlight Brussels sprouts!

However this yr’s salad is like no different; it’s flavorful but so easy. And really completely different from any of my different salads, this can be a roasted Brussels sprout salad! And also you all, I’d by no means make one other Brussels sprout salad that’s not roasted once more, what a distinction!

This dish hits all the correct notes: salty, crunchy, tangy, and tacky with just a little little bit of a spicy/sweetness too—the most effective form of salad.

My vacation salads all the time embody greens, nuts, one thing pink—normally pomegranates or cranberries, and a yummy dressing. Typically, I’ll simply depart it at that, however different instances, I do one thing just a little fancier, like right now’s salad.

Additions actually do make a salad particular…heat butter-toasted breadcrumbs, crispy prosciutto, and a creamy, salty tahini dressing. These are what make this salad particular.

The small print

Step 1: roast the sprouts

Tip – purchase two baggage of pre-sliced Brussels sprouts. Belief me, this protects a lot time. Toss the sprouts on an enormous baking sheet with oil, salt, and pepper. Allow them to roast up and get crispy.

Then pull the pan out, add a drizzle of balsamic vinegar for some tang, and some pats of butter.

Now, preserve roasting till the butter sizzles and browns across the crispy sprouts. YUM!

Step 2: the breadcrumbs

Throughout the identical time, bake the Panko crumbs with pats of salted butter, garlic, and pine nuts. Baking the crumbs as a substitute of toasting them on the range is a lot easier and mess-free.

Now, place the prosciutto on the pan as effectively. All the pieces will crisp up collectively within the oven.

The butter will bubble up and brown across the crumbs making them much more scrumptious!

Step 3: the dressing

Whereas all the pieces is baking, combine the dressing. Typically, I take advantage of the meals processor, and generally only a jar. Both manner, all the pieces will get blended till creamy.

Combine the olive oil, tahini, lemon, Worcestershire (the important thing, it provides the saltiness), garlic, and black peppers. This dressing could be very heavy on the tahini, which is the thought. It’s so addicting together with the nutty cheeses within the salad and all that brown butter! 

Step 4: toss it

Toss the crispy sprouts with the dressing. Then, transfer the salad from the sheet pan to a bowl. Now end the layering.

I all the time add a number of parmesan, manchego cheese, breadcrumbs, prosciutto, after which dried cranberries. It’s not regular, however the sweetness works with these flavors. It’s very vacation and really scrumptious.

What’s superior about this salad is that when it’s tossed, you possibly can serve it heat. You too can cook dinner all the pieces a day forward, then toss all of it collectively earlier than serving. It received’t be crunchy, however it is going to nonetheless be delish! The leftovers are nice straight out of the fridge. I swear they’re even yummier the following day!

I’m already trying ahead to having fun with this salad once more in simply a few days on Christmas Eve! I do know the household will find it irresistible. And it pairs completely with our conventional beef tenderloin.