Asparagus Timbales with Hollandaise Sauce

Name: Asparagus Timbales with Hollandaise Sauce
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: Hollandaise Sauce; ½ pint/285 ml single cream; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Freshly grated nutmeg; 4 large eggs, beaten; 1 lb/450 g asparagus

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

If you grow your own asparagus or have access to a plentiful supply (what bliss!) you may find yourself looking for different ways of cooking it. These timbales are an unusual dish, but easy to make.

Ingredients

1 lb/450 g asparagus
4 large eggs, beaten
½</

Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Butter eight large ramekins. Steam the asparagus until it is tender, then blend it to a purée in either a food processor or a liquidizer. Sieve the purée (I know this sounds a fiddle, but it really doesn’t take a second and it’s worth doing for a smooth and velvety textured purée). Return the purée to the food processor or liquidizer, and blend in first the beaten eggs and then the cream. Seaso