A delicious recipe for asparagus season:
5 tips for crisp asparagus enjoyment:
1) In addition to butter, sugar, salt, form a piece of white bread and a dash of juice from a lemon into the cooking water. This keeps the spears white, and the bread soaks up bitterness.
2) Cook large quantities of asparagus in the juice pan of the oven: pour boiling hot broth over the asparagus, cover with aluminum foil and cook at 200 degrees Celsius (preheated) for 20-25 minutes.
3) Cook hollandaise sauce from the bag not with butter, but with diet margarine. Saves half the calories and tastes just as good.
4) Asparagus spears are great for freezing: remove the peel, pre-freeze for an hour, pack in bags, freeze. Keeps for 10 months. Then cook unthawed.
5) This is how asparagus tastes exceptionally hearty: add washed peels and ends to water, pre-cook for five minutes.
Enjoying it properly and losing weight at the same time is no problem with asparagus spears: only 65 calories are contained in half a kilo. But that is not the only reason why this noble vegetable makes you slim.
500 grams of asparagus spears cover more than the daily requirement of vitamin C. And high doses of vitamin C help to reduce weight. And high doses of vitamin C help accelerate fat burning in the body. This is what recent studies in Vienna have shown.
Asparagus contains more potassium than any other vegetable, plus essential oils. Both together stimulate kidney activity u