Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, belgian asparagus. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bundle asparagus up and tie with kitchen twine. Gently place in boiling water and immediately lower heat to simmer. If using white asparagus, cover pot.
Belgian asparagus is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Belgian asparagus is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have belgian asparagus using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Belgian asparagus:
- Get 1 kg white asparagus
- Take 1 butter
- Prepare 2 large spring onions
- Take 4 large eggs
- Prepare 1 smoked ham
Make sure all the fibres are gone because you don't wanna get those in your dish, they'll ruin your appitite The most common way to serve white asparagus in Belgium is the Flemish-style: boiled or steamed asparagus served with minced hard-boiled eggs, parsley and lemon, and covered in melted butter. It is a simple but tasty dish that could also be served with ham, smoked salmon, grey shrimp, truffles, etc. Easy White Asparagus Flemish Style Recipe. We always looking forward to the white asparagus season in Belgium.
Instructions to make Belgian asparagus:
- Peal of the skin from the asparagus using a thin-slicer. Make sure all the fibres are gone because you don't wanna get those in your dish, they'll ruin your appitite
- Melt a large lump of good butter (no margarine) in a large frying-pan on a low fire and make sure it doesn't turn brown.
- Put in the asparagus, season with salt and pepper and let simmer on a low fire until done (check with a sharp kitchenknife, if it goes through easily they're done).
- Tip : never cook or steam your asparagus because they'll lose half of their flavour !
- Cut up your spring-onions.
- Cut up thin slices of the smoked ham (I prefer pancetta, pata negra but you can really use any type of ham).
- Bring water to the boil for the eggs (without shell) and poche them for about one minute. they don't need longer so make sure you do this last. I always put them in while everything else has already been dressed on the plate.
- Dress everything nicely on a plate and don't forget to cover everything with the butter you used for the asparagus because it's loaded with flavours.
True, you can get them more or less all year around. But the best asparagus are harvested in April, May and June. If you ask us of course. Prices can differ quite a lot, and that has almost always to do with the weather. The topping is rather like a rich, lemony egg salad and goes well with the asparagus.
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