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.
- Pour in the flour and let it take colour .
- Add some of the asparagus boiling water you kept while you
mix everything constantly. - When the mash becomes more compact add boiling water again.
Keep on adding asparagus broth turn by turn until your soup has the
right consistence. - Add the milk.
- Let the soup simmer for about 20 minutes.
- In the meantime cut the bun in 1cm³ dices and roast them in a buttered pan
until they become golden brown. - Cut the spring onion in verry small pieces.
- Garnish the soup with spring onion and croutons.
- Enjoy!
Can be served with:
wine
table water
green salad
Yes ! First aspargus arrived ! It’s time to eat a white aspargus soup from Kristin and Alex ! Thank you.
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Thank you!
In Florida, we rarely see white asparagus, only green. I often wondered if there is a difference in taste. Asparagus is one of my favorite vegetables and eat it whenever available. Your soup is a great way to enjoy asparagus.
You asked me on the blog comment about the spice blend “Hogs Tale Rub” and if there was a similar product that you could find in Germany. I checked the ingredients on the spice blend and it includes, brown sugar, salt, paprika, pepper and cayenne pepper ( spicy pepper). You could easily blend up your own spice blend similar to this one, and then rub on your pork steaks, fajitas or pork roasts. I hope this is helpful.
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Thank you verry much for the efforts!
This spice mixture sounded so exotic to me that it made me curious.
Your description is helpful for me as far as we like to experiment from time to time with
different marinades or spice mixtures and always search for new taste experiences..
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so long…
This soup looks rich and yummy!
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This soup sounds delicious and not too rich or heavy. I love asparagus and its certainly in season, although green is the most common version here
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we love aspargaus soup, this looks so creamy and delish!!
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Thank you for your nice words.
I still like the way you garnish your food…
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Glad that you like it. Nice post about agretti..never heard about it..
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A soup that is resourceful, economical and delicious. It doesn’t get better than that. Yum!
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Lovely! I find the whole asparagus culture in Germany so interesting …. we’ve just started getting white asparagus here in Israel, too, although it’s nowhere near as common.
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Nice that you get the white asparagus in Isreal now. It is a real delicacy for a lot of Germans.
Greetings from Bonn to you in Tel Aviv!
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