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 lots of them spotlight Brussels sprouts!

However this 12 months’s salad is like no different; it’s flavorful but so easy. And really totally different from any of my different salads, it is a roasted Brussels sprout salad! And also you all, I would by no means make one other Brussels sprout salad that’s not roasted once more, what a distinction!

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

My vacation salads all the time embrace greens, nuts, one thing purple—normally pomegranates or cranberries, and a yummy dressing. Typically, I’ll simply go away it at that, however different occasions, I do one thing just a little fancier, like at present’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, maintain 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 an alternative of toasting them on the range is a lot less complicated and mess-free.

Now, place the prosciutto on the pan as nicely. All the things 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 every part is baking, combine the dressing. Typically, I exploit the meals processor, and generally only a jar. Both method, every part 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 concept. 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 numerous parmesan, manchego cheese, breadcrumbs, prosciutto, after which dried cranberries. It’s not ordinary, 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 may serve it heat. You can even cook dinner every part a day forward, then toss all of it collectively earlier than serving. It received’t be crunchy, however it’s 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.