How to cook asparagus

How to cook asparagus

Asparagus - truly unique plant. Her young shoots can be boiled, fry, bake, stew, preserve. They prepare soups, sauces, salads. Asparagus can be served as a side dish to the cape or fish or as an independent dish. How best to cook asparagus?

1
Before cooking, I need to choose asparagus. You can buy at least white, even green, even purple. It is all very gentle and tasty, but shoots should not be more than 15-16 cm. At the same time, please note that it is not letting. The most tender part is the tops, it is for them that fresh asparagus is visible.

2
Before cooking asparagus must be cleaned. For this suitable potato potato. Cleaning sprouts from the upper coarse layer, cut the most tip from below. Now start cooking asparagus.

Cleaning

3
Boil asparagus in a slightly salted water no more than five minutes. It will be tastier if adding lemon lolk in the water. It is desirable that the water covers the sprouts are not fully - the most tender tops must be above the water. To do this, use a special ascent or sprouts just tie and boil in the bucket, in diameter equal to the diameter of the beam. In order for asparagus not to lose its color, drop it into cold water after boiling water.

4
Fry asparagus minutes 3-4 on a conventional frying pan or grill, sprinkling them with olive oil. During the heat, turn over the asparagus two or three times. Similarly, bake asparagus in the oven, but longer in time - 8-10 minutes.

5
Boiled asparagus serve with fish or meat, watering white sauce:

  1. 2 yolks. Beat with 2 tablespoons of warm water.
  2. Put on a water bath and interfere until thickening.
  3. Pour 125 ml of melted cream oil.
  4. Sung wash, pepper and add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
  5. After removing the sauce from the fire, add 50 ml of cream to it.

6
From the boiled asparagus, make a useful soup soup:

  1. Preheat one tablespoon of olive oil in a saucepan.
  2. Fry eight pieces of chopped asparagus slices on it.
  3. Pour 290 ml of hot chicken broth. Boil 5 minutes.
  4. Take the soup submersible blender.
  5. Add 2 tablespoons of oily cream and salt to taste.
  6. War down on the stove for 1-2 minutes.

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Baking asparagus in the oven, wrap it with thin bacon slices. It turns out a full-fledged hot dish, which can be the main on the festive table. To asparagus with bacon, serve any acute tomato sauce.

Restaurant-Marco Polo St. Petersburg-Sparaja-3_XL

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Add the finished asparagus to any salads. For example, from dried tomatoes and goat cheese. Pour refueling from lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.

As you can see, you can make many dishes from asparagus. Experiment and invent your branded recipes. Bon Appetit!

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