How to cook asparagus the 2 easiest ways

If you want to learn how to

cook

asparagus

, you've come to the right place. I have two basic recipes that will allow you to master

asparagus

in less than 10 minutes, so the first skill I'll show you is simply how to boil it. Asparagus is the most basic way to

cook

them and you will see how simple it is so here we have a bunch of asparagus here we have a spear of asparagus well now most of it is edible except the bottom part which usually has very hard fibers that are difficult to chew, so you usually want to cut off the bottom, but someone might wonder what the bottom is, how do you know?

Asparagus is very easy to figure out, so basically you just bend it like this and it snaps. exactly where it's supposed to be right, so now you put it like this and then you know that on average these spears will need to be cut around there, so you put them all together and that's it, now they're ready to cook with the first method. I'm going to show you how to boil asparagus the easy way, so you take your saucepan, fill it with about an inch of water, and bring it to a boil. Okay, now that you can get the water to boil, you can take the asparagus and you can put it in there now.

I want you to notice that what will happen is that as soon as you put it in the boiling water, the asparagus will initially turn a nice bright green color, and that is a chemical reaction between the chlorophyll and the vegetable. and high heat is fine and you want to keep that nice bright green color. You know, we cook it if you get a greenish brown color, so we'll cook this asparagus just for about 60 to 90 seconds and then I'll take it out, okay, so it's been 90 seconds. I'll just take them out and put them on a plate.

I assume you'll want to serve them hot if, by some chance, you want them to cool and prevent them from cooking. You just have to cool them in an ice bath or just put them in a colander and run them under cold running water in the sink, so here we have our perfectly cooked asparagus. Well, they are fully cooked but still a little crunchy and for seasoning. They are very simple, just a little olive oil, a little salt and some freshly ground pepper. I like to add a little citrus, so if you have some lemon or lime, a little spray makes it perfect.

The second technique I'm going to show. your is like roasting asparagus in your oven it's very easy take a look so we take our washed asparagus and cut off the bottom ends now do you want to put them on a baking sheet or in my case I'm going to use These disposable molds spread the map so that they don't They are too much on top of each other and you will just drizzle them with a little olive oil and a little salt. Now they will go in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes now just as a side note, these asparagus butts you don't have to throw away, you can actually use them in your green smoothies, you can put them in soups that you plan to puree, you can give them to your pets you can make vegetable broth, there are actually many uses for these, you don't necessarily have to waste them, so here are our asparagus that just came out of the oven, they are delicious and crispy, perfectly cooked, so now let's transfer them to a plate and you can finish.

We remove this with a little bit of olive oil, we already added salt, you can add a little bit of freshly ground pepper and if you want you can add a little bit of Parmesan cheese. There are many things you can do now that you are a professional at cooking asparagus, salt and show them your friends what you can do. Thank you very much for watching this video. Press the subscribe button. Your subscriptions help me make more videos until next time. This is Chef Christian saying happy asparagus. Inge to you