Asparagus is a plant whose young shoots are eaten as a main dish or in combination with any. Salads are prepared from it, stewed, boiled, and also served raw. Green asparagus is especially good, a lot of original dishes have been invented from it in the kitchens of different nations.
Boiled asparagus
If you have green branches of a plant in store, and you don’t know what to do with them, we offer several recommendations. Here are some helpful recipes for cooking green asparagus. The simplest thing is to boil it. So, with a sharp knife cut off the solid bases at the shoots, rinse them, only carefully so that the branch heads do not break off. They are considered the main delicacy. Then tie in bundles of 8-9 pieces and dip in salted boiling water. Cook for about 5 minutes. Check this way: the heads have softened - you can remove it. Pay attention to the following nuance in how to cook green asparagus. It should be crispy and keep its bright color. Otherwise, both taste and aroma will suffer. This applies to the white variety, and not just green. Those. it is impossible to digest the product: it will become watery, tasteless - nothing.
Throw the prepared asparagus into a colander so that the water is well glass, put, untied, on a dish and serve with sauces (egg-wine, cracker, etc.). Mayonnaise or ketchup are also suitable.
And since they told you how to cook green asparagus, here are some examples of sauces. Cracker: pour vegetable oil into the pan and, when it warms up, add crushed crackers, fry a little, adding spices. Serve warm. Instead of vegetable, creamy is even better. For egg-wine sauce, prepare 3 eggs, the same number of tablespoons of powdered sugar, ¾ glass of wine (white or pink table, just not champagne!), A quarter of lemon. If you need more sauce, keep the same proportions as you increase the ingredients. Eggs are taken from the eggs, they put the powder in them, rub, add lemon and zest from it. Everything is whipped (you can whisk), a little wine is poured. Then put the saucepan with the sauce on a small fire, beat it, so that the mass thickens, but does not boil. The sauce removed from the stove is filtered, lemon juice is added to it to taste and put on the table. Here's how to cook green asparagus with sauces.
Asparagus with pasta
Do you want to get a tasty and beautiful dish, the spring colors of which will cheer you up, add vitality and arouse the appetite of all family members? Then, when asked about how to cook green asparagus, we answer: with bacon and pasta! We will need: the plant itself (several bundles, at your discretion), 400 g of bacon, a glass of wine (vermouth), a bag of pasta, 2 eggs, a glass of cream of medium fat content, 100-120 g of grated cheese, salt, seasonings, spices to taste. It would be nice to add nutmeg, preferably freshly ground. Well, we’re exploring how to cook green asparagus according to this recipe? Wash the shoots and cut into small sticks. Bacon in pieces. Boil pasta in salted water, drain, rinse. Pour vegetable oil into the pan, put the
bacon, fry until brownish. Then lower the asparagus there. Let it stew for about 10 minutes. When it is ready, pour in the wine, let the brew boil. You can add a little water, add salt. Put the finished stew in pasta, mix. Beat eggs with cream and cheese separately in a lush mass, sprinkle with pepper. Pour the mixture into pasta, mix well again. You can still sprinkle with grated cheese.
The proposed recipes are, of course, not a complete list of the possibilities of what is prepared from green shoots of asparagus. But you yourself can come up with something interesting, original and really tasty!