Are you one of those people who love eating but you’re always in a hurry or too lazy to cook? If you fancy delicious, healthy, and easy to prepare food, here are some of the recipes using asparagus, and your breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be like:
One-Pan Salmon Asparagus Recipe
Eating asparagus comes with many benefits. It is rich in vitamins A, C, and K, it’s low in calories, helps with digestion, lowers blood pressure, and is beneficial for pregnant women. And the best way to cook it is with any type of fish. Such a combination is a delicious light healthy meal that makes you feel quite full once you finish your plate.
Before you start doing anything, make sure you have in your kitchen these ingredients: 2 lb salmon filet, 2 lbs of 2 bunches of asparagus, olive oil, salt, and black pepper, and a lemon. To make your dish juicy, prepare a lemon-garlic-herb butter which would need 85 grams of unsalted butter, 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice, 2 pressed garlic cloves, 2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley, 1 tbsp salt, and ¼ tbsp black pepper.
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How to make it?
In the middle of your baking pan place the salmon fillets in a row. Put the asparagus on the sides, sprinkle it with olive oil, and roll it. As a final touch, sprinkle the whole pan with salt and black pepper.
Having done that, your flavor butter should be mashed in a bowl with all the ingredients mixed in it. It will take you some minutes to make it a homogeneous mass.
Once you’re ready with the butter, spread it on top of the salmon fillets and drizzle a bit of it on asparagus. Put slices of lemon on top of the fillets and put them in the oven (450°F for 10-12 minutes). Lastly, put your oven in Broil for 2-3 minutes to make it red/pink.
Asparagus cream Pasta
To have a little heaven right on your plate, get the ingredients below and start cooking asparagus cream pasta.
Ingredients:
1 bunch asparagus
Double cream (142 ml tub)
2 peeled garlic cloves
50-gram parmesan ( ½ grated, ½ shaved)
250-gram tagliatelle
How to make it?
Cut off the ends of the asparagus and divide the stalks from the tips; keep them separately. In a saucepan, boil the cream together with the garlic. After you boil it, remove the garlic from the saucepan.
For about 4-5 minutes cook the stalks in boiling salted water. Once it’s boiled, dip lightly the ends of the stalks in the cream with the grated parmesan.
Then, cook the pasta in a saucepan as given in the pack instructions. Right before they’re completely cooked, put in the tips. But, before you pour the cream on the pasta, reheat it. Top it with parmesan, and then get ready to enjoy your meal.
Asparagus Soup
You know you’re on the right track to starting a green lifestyle when your meal plans include soups. This one’s a green, healthy, vegetable soup, and here’s what you need to prepare it:
25 gr butter
Vegetable oil
350 gr asparagus
3 sliced shallots
2 crushed garlic cloves
2 big handfuls of spinach
750 ml stock
Olive oil
Rustic bread
How to make it?
Bring a saucepan and heat the butter and the vegetable oil. Put the tips of asparagus to fry for a bit and then leave them aside. Put the shallots, the stalks, and the garlic to soften a little for about 5-10 minutes. Then, mix it with the spinach, put the stock in it, and boil. You can use a hand blender to blitz. Add flavoring and then pour hot water to make it looser. Spoon out and spread out the asparagus tips. Sprinkle it with olive oil and, if you choose, you can serve it with rustic bread.