Roast Asparagus with Beef Marrow and Savory Olive Sauce

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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