Two days ago was
the birthday of my Grandmother and she prepared for my family a delicious lunch
using seasonal vegetables like the asparagus and green beans. She prepared a wonderful first course of
pappardelle with pesto, asparagus and prawn and a delicious second course of
tender veal meat with spinach and green beans. This wonderful lunch remember me
that asparagus are the vegetables of this season: spring!!!! Asparagus are
vegetables typical of spring time, from March to May. They are one of my favorite
vegetables that I like to use to prepare delicious Italian recipes.
that is an Italian
second course delicious and very fast to prepare, you will need only 20 minutes,
some asparagus and eggs, and the result will be great. Asparagus are also tasty
to eat simply boiled with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and Parmesan
flakes on the top.
But asparagus are ideal ingredients also for the preparation
of first course like lasagna with asparagus,
risotto with white asparagus or Fusilliwith asparagus and squaquerone cheese
and delicious appetizer like asparagus
covered with speck or bacon. Asparagus grow in open field or in greenhouse especially
in Lombardia, Piedmont, Liguria, Veneto,
Emilia-Romagna, Toscana, Lazio and Campania. There are different types of
asparagus, like the white asparagus of Bassano del Grappa in Veneto; the green
asparagus of Altedo and the violet asparagus of Alberga. Asparagus are easy breakable vegetables, but I think
they are easy to prepare. Usually they are sold in brunch and when you are
buying them the most important thing to consider is to check the buds and the
stalks: the buds should be hard, entire and straight, and the stalks should be
soft and less woody. Asparagus need very short time of cooking: they should be
cooked in brunch in a high pot; you should place the brunch of asparagus in
vertical position in the high pot and add water without covering the buds of
the asparagus that will cook with steam.
Otherwise if you use them in pieces
you don’t need to boil them but you will cook them directly in the sauce you
are going to prepare.
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