Roasted Autumn Vegetables with Pears and Bacon

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Roasted Autumn Vegetables with Pears and Bacon

It’s a great catch-all recipe for autumn produce. Add apples, turnips, acorn squash or whatever strikes your fancy. The flavors of roasted pear and bacon are marvelous in the recipe. The sage leaves turn into crisp delicious chips when roasted.

Last week I made a simpler recipe with apples and brussels sprouts. Today’s recipe, to our palates, was far more superb. Perhaps it was the bacon.

Recipe: Roasted Autumn Vegetables with Pears and Bacon

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped garlic
  • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 pound Brussels sprouts, left whole, halved or quartered (depending on size)
  • 1/2 onion, cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 1 small butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 1 slice bacon, cut into 3/4-inch pieces, optional
  • 2 branches fresh thyme
  • 8 large fresh sage leaves, torn
  • 2 firm ripe Anjou or Comice pears, cored and cut into 1-inch chunks

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
  2. In one large bowl toss together the brussels sprouts, onion, squash, bacon, thyme and sage. Whisk together sugar, oil and garlic and pour 3/4 of the dressing over vegetables. In another bowl combine remaining oil with pears. Season both mixtures with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper and toss until oil is well combined with vegetables and fruit.
  3. Line a large sheet pan with foil, and place in oven 3 minutes. Carefully remove. Spread mixture out on the pan in a single layer, keeping pears separate from vegetables, and bake on center rack of oven until pear is just tender, about 12 minutes. Remove fruit from tray and reserve. Return pan to oven and continue cooking until squash and sprouts are easily pricked with a fork, about five additional minutes. Toss pears with vegetables and serve.

Active Time: 40 minutes

Roast Time: 17-20 minutes

Number of servings (yield): 3 as a main course or 6 side dish portions

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