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🥗 Green Asparagus with Frisée Salad and Crispy Toppings

218 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 750 g white asparagus (or 500 g pre-peeled)
• salt
• 1 tsp honey
• 30 g peeled pumpkin seeds (2 tbsp)
• 2 slices whole grain bread
• 1 shallot
• 1 frisée lettuce (approx. 250 g, or dandelion)
• 4 tbsp white wine vinegar
• pepper
• 0.5 tsp mustard (medium-hot)
• 3 tbsp pumpkin seed oil
• 40 g turkey bacon (4 thin slices)

Instructions

1. 1. Wash the asparagus thoroughly.
2. 2. Peel the asparagus carefully using a vegetable peeler.
3. 3. Trim off the woody bottom ends of the asparagus stalks generously.
4. 4. Fill a large pot with water and add salt and honey.
5. 5. Bring the water to a boil.
6. 6. Add the asparagus to the boiling water.
7. 7. Cook the asparagus for 10 to 13 minutes until it is tender-crisp.
8. 8. Roughly chop the pumpkin seeds in the meantime.
9. 9. Cut off the crust from the bread.
10. 10. Cut the bread into small cubes.
11. 11. Peel the shallot.
12. 12. Finely chop the shallot.
13. 13. Remove the outer leaves from the frisée lettuce.
14. 14. Wash the frisée lettuce.
15. 15. Spin the salad dry.
16. 16. Cut the frisée lettuce into bite-sized pieces.
17. 17. Take four tablespoons of the asparagus cooking liquid.
18. 18. Pour the cooking liquid into a bowl.
19. 19. Add vinegar, salt, pepper, mustard, and pumpkin seed oil.
20. 20. Whisk the mixture until creamy with a whisk.
21. 21. Stir the diced shallot into the sauce.
22. 22. Heat a frying pan.
23. 23. Fry the bacon slices in the pan until very crispy on both sides.
24. 24. Remove the bacon from the pan.
25. 25. Let the bacon drain on kitchen paper.
26. 26. Add the bread cubes to the pan.
27. 27. Fry the bread cubes in the remaining bacon fat until crispy.
28. 28. Lift the asparagus out of the cooking liquid.
29. 29. Let the asparagus drain.
30. 30. Arrange the frisée salad on plates.
31. 31. Place the asparagus on the salad.
32. 32. Drizzle the sauce over the salad.
33. 33. Add the pumpkin seeds and bread cubes.
34. 34. Garnish each plate with a slice of bacon.
35. 35. Serve the salad.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 218
• Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 12 g · Carbs: 16 g