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Asparagus with Red Wine
Les Asperges au Vin Rouge
Preparation info
- For
4
People - Difficulty
Easy
- Ready in
20 min
Appears in
Published 1973
An unusual way with what is to me one of the greatest of all vegetables. (See menu with wines.)
Ingredients
Staple Items
- Homemade mayonnaise (
1 cup
Method
Boil and steam the asparagus spears by the classic method, in a stand-up lidded boiler, with the lower two-thirds of the spears standing in boiling water and the tips in hot steam, just under the lid. Depending on the age and thickness of the spears, both the stalks and the tips will be done to perfection in somewhere between 12 and 18 minutes. Meanwhile, begin gradually working the wine into t