Name: Roast Asparagus with Beef Marrow and Savory Olive Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 recipe Beef Jus; ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 48 Nicoise olives, pitted; 1 teaspoon coarsely ground white pepper; 4 marrow bones; 20 thick asparagus spears

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

America's Best Chefs Cook with Jeremiah Tower

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2003

About

A very simple dish with huge and pleasurable impact—mostly because of the combination of the marrow and the asparagus.

Ingredients

4 marrow bones
20 thick asparagus spears
1 tablespoon butter

Method

Remove the marrow from the bones, place it in a bowl of cold water with ice cubes, and refrigerate for 6 hours. Drain and cut each piece crosswise in half.

Peel the asparagus and trim the spears so that they are 5 inches long. Rinse in cold water, drain, and dry on a kitchen towel.

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