Asparagus with Garden Sauce Recipe
Flavors of France
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Prep. time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
In spa cuisine, egg yolks are often used to thicken sauces. The whites can be used to make desserts; they freeze very well. Store them in small containers, making a note of how many whites are in each.
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- 500 g (18 oz.) Asparagus, (300 g cultivated, 200 g wild or 500 g any green asparagus)
- 50 g (2 oz.) cucumber
- 50 g (2 oz.) tomato
- 1 small container of plain yogurt low in fat
- 1 soft-boiled egg
- Salt and pepper
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard
- Chives
Method
- Wash and peel the cultivated asparagus. Cook for 20 minutes in boiling salted water with the wild asparagus.
- For the sauce, cut the tomato and cucumber into small dice.
- Soft boil the egg. Combine the egg yolk, mustard, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Blend in the yogurt, then the vegetables.
- Arrange the asparagus on plates, top with the sauce and sprinkle with chives.
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