Can I use fresh brussel sprouts?

Executive Member Joined: Sep 17 2008 Posts: 425

I love brussel sprouts can I use fresh or must be bodek frozen? and how to wash?

Every bug-checking guide I have read says that brussel sprouts can't be checked.

Gold Member Joined: Oct 26 2008 Posts: 1248

It's so interesting because I saw them fresh in gourmet glatt. I wonder why they sell them if you can't check them.

I don't know, but the process they use in freezing might kill the bugs and destroy them in a way that the sprouts are kosher.

I have never eaten brussel sprouts because I didn't grow up with it but I know people either love them or hate them.

I hate

but yes I know very frum people who torture their kid with it Wink

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Executive Member Joined: Sep 17 2008 Posts: 425

op here! they are delicious! roasted with my chicken! yum!

Gold Member Joined: Jun 11 2008 Posts: 1974 Location: NJ

Yes, I remember them well...they are delicious, but I haven't eaten them in years. After someone started another thread yesterday looking for recipes, I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy, so I checked around the kashrus websites. This is what I came up with:
http://star-k.org/cons-vegdetail.php?ID=13
http://www.kof-k.org/docs/CheckVegetablesForBugs.pdf
http://www.ok.org/PDF/OK_Veggie_Checking_Guide.pdf

So in a word, no. The Bodek ones are good, though, just super expensive.

Diamond Member Joined: Jun 29 2011 Posts: 3030

Fresh ones do well in a presssure cooker, for just a minute or two. That is high heat. But I don't know about the bug checking issue with that.

You could take them apart and check them and then cooks them. I've seen recipes for shredded ones, cooked and uncooked, but what a patchke!
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it could be they sell them cuz if you pure' something you are usually allowed to use items such as strawberries, asparagus etc. So perhaps people pure' them?