Dishes from asparagus

Asparagus appeared on Russian shelves for a long time, the product is extremely useful, but for many it is still considered something exotic. Not all Russians know what dishes from asparagus can be cooked, except how corny it is to boil. But there are a lot of ways of cooking this vegetable. First of all, these useful sprouts can be baked in the oven - it's quick and very simple.

If you want to master dishes from asparagus, then cook the asparagus baked with lemon. This will require: 900 g of asparagus, a quarter of a glass of olive oil, lemon peel, 4 chopped cloves of garlic, black spicy pepper, salt.

Put the baking sheet in the top part of the oven, heat it up to 230 degrees. Cut the hard ends of the asparagus stems. Pieces of stems that you cut off, you no longer need, they can be thrown away. Spread the prepared asparagus on a silicone mat or on a sheet of paper, designed for baking.

In a bowl, mix olive oil, chopped garlic and lemon zest, and mix thoroughly. Then pour the mixture with asparagus so that it is distributed evenly enough. Solim, pepper. We spread slices of lemon around asparagus sprouts.

We put the asparagus in the oven and cook until it gets a little golden tint and does not become quite soft - in time it takes about 7-10 minutes. Ready asparagus should be put on a dish and enjoy the excellent taste!

Asparagus is a delicacy product. Dishes from asparagus are rather simple, however from how correctly you prepare it, the taste of the dish will depend also. Asparagus boiled is suitable for almost any salad. However, asparagus, cooked by steaming, turns out to be the most delicate. How is the asparagus prepared in the steamer?

First, the vegetable should be cleaned properly. Green asparagus is beginning to be cleaned from the middle of the stem downwards, cutting off the peel with a special knife to clean the potatoes. White asparagus is beginning to be peeled from the top to the bottom. The top should be cut by 1-2 cm.

After cleaning the asparagus, you need to put it in the steamer and cook for 5 minutes. This water needs a little salted. Using a wooden skewer, check the preparedness of the vegetable and start to prepare the salad. One of the popular recipes, if you want to cook dishes from asparagus - it's a salad from it with the addition of lemon juice.

You need: 400 g of green asparagus, juice and peel from one lemon, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, better than wine, egg, crispy crackers, sugar, pepper.

First you need to cook the sauce: everything, except the egg and the asparagus, should be well mixed in a blender. If desired, you can also add black pepper. Cooked in a double boiler, the asparagus should be cut into pieces, poured with sauce, sprinkled with crackers and crumbled egg.

However, this is not all simple and affordable dishes from asparagus. For example, you can make soup from asparagus, the recipe of which is given below.

This will require: 500 g of asparagus, 2 liters of water, 50 g of butter, 100 ml of creamy fat, salt, 2 tablespoons of flour, pepper.

Asparagus should be washed and well cleaned, remove a thin skin, rinse again and cut into pieces 1.5 cm into the pan should be poured 2 liters of water, heat to a boil and put in it asparagus. Salt and cook for 15 minutes.

While the asparagus is brewed, it is necessary to make a flour pasturing - in a small frying pan we melt the butter, in it we brown the flour to a golden color. Remove from the plate and let it cool slightly, but not completely. From the pan you need to take 100 ml of broth and, continuously stirring with a whisk so that no lumps appear, pour the broth into the flour.

When the asparagus is ready, it is necessary to remove the pan from the plate, to catch several whole pieces, the rest of the soup content to grind with a blender or wipe through a sieve. Now we need to put the pan back on the fire, bring it to a boil and, stirring it with a whisk, enter flour paste, then cream and whole pieces of asparagus. We give the dish one more time to boil. We put freshly ground pepper, spices to taste. Soup is ready, you can pour on plates.

Bon Appetit.