Steamed white asparagus with flat parsley and boiled egg vinaigrette

Name: Steamed white asparagus with flat parsley and boiled egg vinaigrette
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 33 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 500 g white asparagus (or green); 2-3 litres water; 2 eggs, boiled and chopped; 2 tsp Dijon mustard; 2 tbsp white wine vinegar; freshly ground black pepper; 100 ml sunflower or olive oil; 100 ml sunflower or olive oil; small handful of fresh chopped parsley

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Recipes For Life

By Peter Marshall

Published 2013

About

Ingredients

500 g white asparagus (or green)
2-3 litres water

Lunch
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

If the asparagus is fresh and young, you do not need to peel it, if not you do. Cut or snap off the ends. Bring 2 saucepans of water to the boil, 1 small for the eggs and 1 larger for the asparagus.
Boil the eggs for 10 minutes.
Before you drop the asparagus in, you should tie it up loosely with string, the tips all facing the same way.
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