Asparagus is a plant whose young shoots are eaten as a main course or in combination with some. From it prepare salads, it is extinguished, boiled, and also served raw. Especially good asparagus is green, original dishes from it are invented a lot in the kitchens of different peoples.
Boiled asparagus
If you have green branches of a plant, and what to do with them - do not know, we offer some recommendations. Here you will get acquainted with several useful recipes for how to cook green asparagus. The simplest thing is to boil it. So, with a sharp knife cut off the hard edges of the shoots, flush them, only gently, so that the heads of branches do not break off. They are considered the main delicacy. Then tie into bundles of 8-9 pieces and dip into salty boiling water. Cook for about 5 minutes. Check this: the heads have softened - you can take them out. 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. It touches this white variety, not just green. Those. Digest the product can not: it will become watery, tasteless - no. Ready to let the asparagus in a colander, so that the water is good glass, lay out, untied, on a dish and serve with sauces (egg-wine, suharnym, etc.). Will fit also mayonnaise or ketchup.
And since you were told how to cook green asparagus, give examples of sauces. Sukharny: pour the vegetable oil into the pan and, when it is warmed up, pour in the cracked crackers, fry a little, adding spices. Serve warm. Instead of vegetable even better suited creamy. For the egg-wine sauce prepare 3 eggs, as many spoonfuls of table sugar powder, ¾ cup of wine (white or pink table-top, just not champagne!), Quarter of lemon. If the sauce needs more, observe the same proportions by increasing the ingredients. Eggs take yolks, they put powder, rub, add lemon and peel from it. Everything is beaten (you can whisk), a little wine is pouring in. Then saucepan with sauce put on a small fire, whisked to the mass thickened, but did not boil. Remove the sauce slice from the stove, strain lemon juice into it and put it 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 lift the mood, add courage and awaken the appetite of all members of the family? Then the question of how to cook asparagus green, we answer: with bacon and pasta! We will need: the plant itself (several beams, at your discretion), 400 g of bacon, a glass of wine (vermouth), a packet of pasta, 2 eggs, a glass of cream of medium fat, 100-120 g of grated cheese, salt, seasonings, spices to taste. It would be nice to add nutmeg, better freshly ground. Well, we disassemble, how to cook green asparagus according to this recipe? Wash the shoots and cut into small sticks. Bacon - slices. Boil the pasta in salted water, drain, rinse. In the pan, pour the vegetable oil, put the bacon, fry until a brownish crust. Then lower the asparagus. Let it stew for 10 minutes. When she is ready, pour in the wine, let the brew boil. You can add a little water, add it. Ready stew to put in pasta, mix. Separately, whisk eggs with cream and cheese in a lush mass, sprinkle with pepper. Pour the mixture into the pasta, mix again well. You can also sprinkle with grated cheese.
The proposed recipes are, of course, far from 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!