You can cook them in boiling water and serve for example with eggs and salmon or you can also eat them raw in salads. A seasonal vegetable with many properties, including antidepressants
It's time to asparagus. Here are some tips to choose, clean and cook them.
The term asparagus or asparagus comes from the Greek aspharagos and from the Persian asparagus Cimadolmo, or sprout and indica both the entire plant and the shoots of the plant.
THE'Asparagus officinalis it belongs to the Liliaceae family and has a long history.
It's a plant always green from the needle-shaped leaves widespread in central and southern Europe since ancient times.
It is a dioecious species, that is, there are both female and male specimens. The fruits produced by the female plants are small red berries containing black seeds. The plant is equipped with rhizomes growing under the ground forming a lattice and from them the shoots or the edible part of the plant depart. If not collected, stems with variable lengths from 1 to 1.5 m depart from the shoots and must be collected when they have not reached a consistency that is too hard.
There different varieties of asparagus. White, purple or green ones are commercially available, although the most consumed are the green ones, typical of early spring.
Properties of asparagus
These vegetables really are low in calories. They bring about 25 calories per 100 grams and contain a lot of fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B and mineral salts, including calcium, phosphorus and potassium. Eating 100 grams of asparagus takes about 75% of the daily amount needed folic acid, very important substance for the multiplication of the cells of the body and for the synthesis of new proteins. Asparagus, especially the wild ones, are rich in energy substances and have always been considered powerful aphrodisiacs.
Why eat asparagus?
I'm excellent diuretics and fight water retention and cellulite.
They have function antidepressant, probably due to their detoxifying and diuretic action, and they are good for mood.
Do not eat too many if you suffer from kidney problems, cystitis and kidney stones, because they contain uric acid that can increase the infection already in place.
How to choose asparagus?
Fresh ones they are hard, do not bend, but break. They should not appear woody and dull and dark brown or too light in color. Especially check the asparagus that are in the center of the bunch that generally deteriorate first.
How do you cook asparagus?
Asparagus is very versatile in the kitchen. They are excellent raw and added to the salad, but also simply sautéed in the pan or in the oven or steamed.
That steam is a very valid cooking from a nutritional point of view.
To prepare them, first of all remove the part of the most external and woody stem with a potato peeler break the asparagus at the breaking point. Simply fold it in the middle and it will break by itself. We must not cut it with a knife.
To cook them in boiling water collect them in a bunch and tie them with a kitchen string, then place them in a tall pot full of boiling water, letting the tips stay out of the water and cook only with the heat of steam. In 10 minutes they are ready to be used in other recipes or simply dressed with oil, lemon salt.
Asparagus with egg
The most famous recipe with asparagus comes from northern Italy and is very easy and very tasty.
Cook the aspargi in boiling water.
Place them whole on a plate and place one on top of it Freshly cooked fried egg in butter or a poached egg. Complete with plenty of grated Parmesan and ground pepper. For a gourmet version you can add truffle flakes.
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