GORDON RAMSAY RECIPES

All the pleasure of pasta and asparagus in 20 delicious and light recipes. You can no longer do without it!

Delicate, fleshy and indicated in every diet. Asparagus is one of our favorite vegetables to make balanced and tasty first courses, but at the same time ideal for stay light in favor of costume testing and high temperatures to face. And if the grandmother offered them especially during Easter with egg noodles, why not follow in her footsteps by extending the tasting period until late spring?

How to choose asparagus

The preliminary operation for the preparation of the recipes is certainly the choice of the right raw material. The first clue to follow is on the tips: here the leaflets must be tightly closed. The tip of the asparagus must instead appear straight and firm. The second clue should be waxed on the other end, where they have been cut. Here they must be beautiful round without revealing an oval and flattened shape. The last test is a test that you will do on a single asparagus taken from the bunch: folding it in two should break cleanly and not bend. In the latter case, it would mean that he has lost all the water.

Green asparagus

When choosing green asparagus, select bunches with a nice one bright color, far from any shade of gray. They must then be of a compact green and free of spots on the trunk.

And the white ones

In the case of white asparagus, avoid those characterized by an excessive diameter or a yellowish color. The tone should be compact and spotless just like in greens.

What a fragrance!

Those who smell the asparagus to smell it are disappointed. If they are fresh and of good quality they are indeed perfectly odorless while when they have passed the ripening phase for too long, they could emit a sweet and unpleasant smell.

In the gallery above, 20 recipes to taste pasta and asparagus.

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Mixed fried fish, lightly fried vegetables, mozzarella in carrozza, fried squids, chicken, pumpkin flowers, meatballs …

There temptation to enjoy a taste of something fried is often very strong, both between one bathroom and the other at the sea and in summer dinners, when the fresh air is perfect to finally sit at the table with the desire to taste something warm. The fried foods are luscious whether it is tempure, batters, breadcrumbs with breadcrumbs and eggs, flours and simple fries. Beyond the type of recipe chosen, it is important to bring theoil at the right temperature to prevent the food from burning if the oil is too hot or excessively absorb an insufficiently heated oil. To make sure that the food is crunchy, it is good turn them around and move them continuously while they cook.

And if you feel like getting fried, you just have to choose between the recipes: spools of zucchini and breaded flowers, morsels of golden monkfish, mozzarella in a carriage, spatula fish tempura, figs and soy, stuffed anchovies with sage, trout à la vauclusienne, fried chicken breasts and puntarelle salad, donuts with honey cream, cod in batter and panzanella, fried shrimp and mullet with mayonnaise with watercress, Stuffed Pumpkin Flowers fried, shrimp croquettes and fava beans guacamole, meatballs of herbs and quinoa with pecorino cream, kalitsounia, appetizer from Crete, Eggplant Fritters with pink mayonnaise, meatballs with spices, Milanese cutlet, pumpkin flowers in chickpea batter, squid of arancino, veal cutlets with vegetables, nuggets of sea bream breaded, fried mixed with squid ink, anchovies in a carriage with spicy provolone, Pumpkin In Batter flowers with beer and creamy robiola, breaded zucchini with asparagus mayonnaise, breaded eggs with a tender heart, breaded mullet with Pastis sauce, fried anchovies and spring onions with chickpea tortelli, breaded aubergine slices in taralli, chicken cutlets with asparagus and snow peas, zucchini in scapece, tantalizingly sour, breaded sardines with dried tomato and oregano, pea croquettes and cream with oregano, sword cutlets breaded with cucumber and peach, Stuffed Pumpkin Flowers of sardines with dried tomato sauce, bread and panelle is fried chicken and popcorn.