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How to prepare asparagus

Name: How to prepare asparagus
Prep time: 26 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 33 min
Yield: 4 Hows to prepare asparagus
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 g Asparagus

Preparing asparagus spears properly involves washing and peeling, then cooking them just right. Here is a simple way to do this.

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Duration

35 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Cost

1.75 €

For

4 Hows to prepare asparagus

Ingredients

Last modified on: June 26^th 2013

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For 4 Hows to prepare asparagus, you will need:

1 250 g Asparagus
Total weight: 250 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

30 min.

Cooking

7 min.

All in all

35 min.

Preparation 30 min.

Cooking 7 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 15 min.

Peel the asparagus: cut 1 cm (1/2 inch) off the bottom, then peel with a vegetable peeler from the bottom upwards, stopping before you reach the tip.

You can see how to do this in the video at the side.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 5 min.

Rinse the peeled asparagus under running water, paying particular attention to the tips that have not been peeled.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 7 min.

Bring a large pan of water to the boil, add salt and plunge in the asparagus. Cook for about 7 minutes.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Check if cooked by sticking a knife into a spear towards the base. It should go through the asparagus quite easily (like through butter).

Stage 5 - ⌛ 5 min.

Take the asparagus out of the pan and drain thoroughly.

Stage 6

Lay the spears on absorbant paper to wait.

Your asparagus is ready.

Remarks

If the asparagus spears stay wet once cooked, they risk giving off water when eaten or when used in a recipe. This is why it is important to drain them well after cooking, even using a salad spinner.

You will find a lot of recipes that advise cooking asparagus "in a bundle". I don't find this particularly effective; simply cooking them in boiling water is far quicker.

Keeping: 1 day in the fridge.

Source: Home made.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	2 g RDI=4 %	4 g RDI=2 %	0 g	28 kcal RDI=1 %	117 kJ RDI=1 %
Per piece	1 g RDI=2 %	2 g RDI=1 %	0 g	17 kcal RDI=1 %	73 kJ RDI=1 %
Whole recipe	6 g RDI=9 %	10 g RDI=4 %	0 g	70 kcal RDI=4 %	293 kJ RDI=4 %