How to cook asparagus correctly to make it healthy: tips and recipe from the chef
Asparagus is the most delicious spring vegetable. It is also very healthy and can be used to make various delicious dishes, such as casseroles, and pies, added to omelets, simply boiled, grilled, and even eaten raw.
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Food blogger Anastasiia Solopii shared on Instagram useful tips on how to choose and cook delicious, juicy, and healthy asparagus, as well as a recipe for an unusual salad.
How to cook asparagus
Tips from the chef:
Cooked asparagus
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1. The most delicious are thin stalks (as thick as your little or ring finger), which should only be washed and cut off 1-2 cm from the bottom.
How to cook asparagus at home
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2. If you find thicker stalks of asparagus, feel free to cut 2-3 cm from the bottom and go another 5 cm up with a vegetable peeler, because the skin of such asparagus is quite hard and unpleasant to chew.
How to cook asparagus properly at home
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3. How to cook deliciously
Boil for 1-2 minutes in boiling water, then immediately plunge into cold water and fry for another 1-2 minutes in ghee or butter. Then add salt, and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and dry garlic and you can eat it right away.
Asparagus with bacon
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It is worth noting that thicker stalks can be boiled because they no longer have that perfect green color.
How to properly clean asparagus
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The asparagus should stay crispy! That's the point. Don't overcook it
Asparagus, pasta, egg and bacon salad
Recipe for a delicious asparagus salad
Source: screenshot of the cook's recipe on Instagram
Ingredients:
- asparagus – 175 g
Fresh asparagus
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- durum pasta – 50 g
- bacon – 50 g
- spinach – 30 g
Fresh spinach
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- lemon – 1/4
- pine nuts or any other – 5 g
Nuts for salad
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- butter – 10 g
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- olive oil – 1 tbsp
- eggs – 1 pc
Bacon for salad
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- salt, pepper – to taste
Method of preparation:
1. Boil the pasta for 2-3 minutes.
Hard pasta varieties
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2. Slice the bacon and fry well in a skillet.
Fried bacon
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3. Boil an egg.
Boiled eggs.
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4. Boil the asparagus and fry it in a pan with butter until tender.
5. Grate the zest.
A delicious dish with asparagus
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6. Assemble the salad: put all the ingredients on a plate, sprinkle with nuts, and serve.
A delicious dish is ready
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