Cook white asparagus for 15 minutes.
How to cook white asparagus
1. If the asparagus was originally bought in a bunch, divide the asparagus.
2. Trim, if any, cut off dried sections.
3. Cut the skin off the pods.
4. Tie the pods into bunches for easier handling after boiling.
5. Pour water into a deep, high saucepan so that a bunch of peeled asparagus is completely immersed in it during cooking.
6. Boil water, add a bunch of asparagus, add salt.
7. Cook the asparagus for 15 minutes.
Drain the water, the asparagus is ready to serve!
Delicious facts
– Season white asparagus from April to June. Edible white asparagus is grown mainly in Germany (during the asparagus season, you can order dishes with this product in almost all restaurants in Germany). In Russia, white asparagus is grown less, almost all available in stores is grown abroad.
– White asparagus has no color because it is completely submerged in the ground (unlike green asparagus).
– The process of growing white asparagus is considered more time consuming, and the nutritional value is higher, therefore the price of white asparagus is higherthan green.
-To choose white asparagus is followed by fresh – it has a moist cut and firm skin. White asparagus with dried cuts is not as fresh, which means it will turn out to be less nutritious and tender.
– To make it convenient to check readiness asparagus and to break the shape of the bunch, it is recommended to cook the bunch and separately 1 asparagus pod specifically to check the readiness.
– Cost fresh white asparagus – from 1500 rubles / kilogram (on average in Moscow as of June 2017).
– Calorie value white asparagus – 35 kcal / 100 grams.