You have boiled asparagus and don’t know what to do with the boiling water?
We had our first white asparagus of the season on thursday. In our household about 1 kg asparagus is boiled in 2,5 liter water that is druged with some sugar, butter and salt. This time we wanted to keep the aromatic boiling water as an ingredient and decided to make asparagus soup with it.
Makes 5 to 6 servings.
| Ingredients: 2,5 l water from boiling asparagus 5 tbsp. butter 5 tbsp. flour 250 ml milk 1 white bun or bread a half spring onion |
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Foreword:
Do you like white asparagus?
This year the asparagus season started in North Rhine-Westphalia on April 22th, 2010.
So we are quite late with our first asparagus but anyway not too late to get verry good asparagus for about 3 € per kilogramm on the daily
market in Bonn.
| Fact Of The Week About Germany:
Asparagus Season in Germany: The Asparagus Season in Germany begins every year dependent on the weather conditions round about the second half of april and is officially over on 24th of june. Germany’s most known growing areas for asparagus are in |
Preparation :
- Melt the butter in a big pot on medium heat.
