You have green asparagus at home and you are wondering what to prepare from it? I recommend making a simple salad.
The salad which I encourage you to make is a light, fresh salad, which consists of green lettuce, lambs lettuce, asparagus and hard-boiled eggs. As you can see, you don’t need a diverse selection of ingredients to prepare this salad.
I drizzled the salad with honey, mustard and lemon juice dressing and sprinkled it on top with nigella seeds. The seeds gave the salad a slightly bitter taste. I served the salad as an addition to a chicken dish. However, you can also eat it by itself, because the ingredients used to make this salad are quite filling, despite their small number.
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Ingredients for green asparagus salad.
- 10 pieces of green asparagus
- a pinch of salt
- a pinch of crystal sugar
- 1 head of lettuce
- 2 bunches of lambs lettuce
- 3 big eggs
- nigella seeds for sprinkling
Sauce:
- 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
How to make asparagus salad.
Pour water into a pot, add salt and sugar and bring it to a boil. When the water starts boiling, add the asparagus. Cook for 6 minutes. After that, pour the asparagus into a colander, pour cold water over it and let it cool down.
Boil the eggs until hard-boiled or slightly runny in the middle. It took me 6 minutes. Pour cold water over the boiled eggs, cool them down, then peel them. Cut each one in half.
Put the mustard, lemon juice, honey and olive oil into a cup. Mix them very well.
Put the lettuce leaves, lambs lettuce, asparagus cut in halves and egg halves into a bowl. Pour the dressing over the ingredients in the bowl and sprinkle with nigella seeds on top.
Good to know when making green asparagus salad.
I used XXL size eggs and boiled them for 6 minutes in water salted with a pinch of salt. If you want the eggs to be harder inside, keep them in the water for a bit longer. I think that 6 minutes is enough, the eggs will have an almost perfect inside after that time.
Do not use the stringy part of the asparagus. Before boiling the asparagus, cut off about 2 centimetres from the bottom of each one.
I used natural honey with floral flavour.
I opted for the Little gem romaine lettuce but you can use any type of lettuce.
Do you like green asparagus? If so, try our recipe for Green asparagus tart.
That’s not fenugreek. Those are nigella seeds. (Po polsku – czarnuszka/czarny kminek)
Hi, thank you for spotting this. You are absolutely right these are indeed nigella seeds.