How do you cook asparugus?
do your kids eat it??
I roast it in the oven. Toss with a little olive oil to coat, spread on cookie sheet or something similar. Sprinkle with bread crumbs fresh garlic, Parmesan cheese and lemon juice. Roast until ends begin to brown. Love it.
Sometimes I steam it until al dente then toss in Italian dressing and serve cold. Love it.
I only use fresh asparagus.
My son hates it :)
I love it
I roast it.
400 degree oven, roll asparagus in a little olive oil. You can use flavores oils or plain. Season as you wish. Place on a baking sheet. It is done, for me, when the heads are a little browned.
Yummy.
You should try munching on it raw - it's crunchy and very sweet.
Steaming works well.
I like it plain with a little butter or with some Hollendaise sauce.
It's also good with pasta in Alfredo sauce or in a fritata (or with scrambled eggs).
It's not my son's favorite veggie but he will eat it.
I've enjoyed it steamed and roasted. My daughter showed me how to saute it in a frying pan with a little olive oil and garlic and salt, till JUST barely cooked. It's my new favorite, and it's so easy to add chunks of onion, ham or sausage, mushroom, pineapple, apple, or whatever enhances your meal!
Obviously, my daughter eats it this way, and so does her 7yo son.
For a quick veggie side I steam in the microwave with a squirt of fresh lemon juice. Nicer meals I will oven roast brushed with olive oil and italian seasoning. I've also quick cooked on my George Foreman grill, delicious! Only the adults in my house will eat asparagus, unfortunately.
ETA: I also fix it in the oven....one white toast, slice of ham, slice of cheese, asparagus, slice of pineapple...baked until toasted...
My boys LOVE asparagus!!
They eat it raw or I steam it.
I do NOT buy canned asparagus (eeeeewwww!!) and I do not buy frozen asparagus. Only fresh. Sorry. I'm kinda weird that way. I've tried all three - canned, frozen and fresh...and fresh is the way to go!
my boys love it with ranch dressing or balsamic vinaigrette....mostly ranch.
I love it. I boil it in a fry pan or roast it in the oven, or use it in my shrimp and asparagus risotto. The way I get my kids to eat it is by telling them it makes their pee smell funny. Then they have to find out for themselves.
Here's an asparagus tip (pun intended): The bottoms of stems can often be tough, stringy, fibrous and unpleasant to eat no matter how you cook them. You can do one of two things: Take a potato peeler and peel away the outer layer of the asparagus from about halfway down, leaving the more tender inside. Or (my favorite) take the stalk in both your hands and gently bend it -- it will break naturally at the point where that stalk is tough. Eat what is left from the top end down and use the tough bottom end for veggie stock or give it to your dog (someone said her late dog loved it!). I've seen the "break it at the natural tough point" technique on several cooking shows and have used it for years. If it's good-quality, fresh asparagus, almost all of each stalk will be tender; you won't waste much. Or try the other method and strip the exterior off the bottoms. And... never ever ever overcook it or it goes from great to gross!
We eat it at least once a week.. Our daughter has always liked it,
Steamed, grilled, sauteed..
I add it to soups, salads, sometimes we just snack on it.
I like to add it to Alfredo sauce with smoked salmon.
Steam it, a little butter when it's hot, mmm, mmm good!
Also, cut into small pieces, add to chicken stock, leftover chicken chunks, some spices, in the fry pan, bring to a boil until the asparagus is cooked (al dente) and ladle onto rice. Another mmm,mmm good!
I didn't like asparagus until I was an adult. I'm glad my kids will eat it. I didn't know what I was missing back then.
Ditto, to TF's answer. Exactly how we make it!! I agree, only use fresh! If you are looking just to steam, frozen would also work. Only buy fresh for oven roasting though. My son does love it.
Oh, the pineapple ham method sounds wonderful!
Sometimes i steam it, but most of the time I bake it in the oven for 10-12 minutes with some olive oil and some sea salt and pepper from the pepper mill. The length of time depends on how thick the stems are. My kids love it unless it is overcooked. We had some tonight and it was terrific. My dog (now deceased) used to love to eat the stems. She could smell it when it was cooking and she would eat them raw or cooked.
We steam it. Yes, DD will eat it.
Sauteed in a pan with a little olive oil or butter and garlic. Or, just steam it but don't let it get mushy. Top it with sliced almonds.
Grill it :)
Cut up in pasta :)
Roasted in the oven with lemon juice :) :)
My son eats it when he does not realize he is eating it.
Google "cooking asparagus" - there are lots of different ways. Grilled is yummy, or just lightly boiled with salt.
The taste is very strong and might not be appealing for most kids. The texture is different as well. Just find a recipe you like and go from there :)
Lola's cooking technique for asparagus is great. Instead of cutting the ends of fresh asparagus, I suggest snapping them off with your fingers. Just grab the end and bend it off. That way only the tough part breaks off and you're not cutting off good veggie.
easy, wash them, cut the ends, put some olive oil, salt and peppers, put them on a tray, oven on 400 roast for 15 minutes. afterwards wrap with aluminum foil for about 5 min. yummy. kids and adults love em.
we steam it. or brush with olive oil and grill it. after you can squeeze lemon on it. super yummy. you can wrap it with bacon an grill it too.
My kids like asparagus! Our favorite ways are:
1- broiled in the oven on a cookie sheet with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and some cracked pepper. (LOVE how quick and easy this one is!)
2- in quiche (usually pared with carrots and onions)
PS. We ALWAYS use fresh- not frozen. For some reason, my kids CAN tell the difference. (Tried to sneak the frozen in, when the store is all out of fresh, and it's a NO GO for them. Maybe your kids won't notice though???? Funny that as a kid I didn't notice!)
I cut off the hard bottoms and then I steam them just until they're a beautiful bright green. If they turn a dull green, then they're over-done. I love them drizzled with balsamic glaze, salt and pepper. I also love them drizzled with Hollandaise sauce. If I want to keep it healthy, I go with the balsamic.
My children love asparagus. They argue over who gets the last of it. They'll get thirds of it if there's enough.
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I roast them in the oven. First I break them where the stem is tough. Then I put them in a bowl and mix them with a little good olive oil, salt and pepper. Then I put them in on a cookie sheet in a single layer and roast them till they are a little crispy and brown...but soft inside. 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. I turn them over once or twice. When I take them out I squeeze some fresh lemon juice on them. My daughter loves them!
My mom thought she liked it canned (I have terrible memories of HATING asparagus because it was always canned---BLECH), but as an adult I learned how to cook it and love it, as do my husband, 6 yr old, and 3 yr old. Mom thought she didn't like fresh asparagus because it's stringy, but as Leigh R mentioned, you just break them at their natural breaking point. My husband taught me when we were first married and that makes all the difference in the world.
I do the grilling, broiling, steaming, and pasta mentioned earlier. I'm going to try the baking techniques I read about today, sounds yummy. But just a couple other ideas I didn't see mentioned: I do vegetable stuffed chicken breasts sometimes where I put the chicken between 2 sheets of wax paper and hammer it out a bit with a mallet, then I put a 1-3 asparagus spears (depending on how big they are), mushrooms, a little spinach, mozzarella, chopped up artichokes, a tiny bit of drained rotels...roll the breasts up, dredge in egg wash and Italian bread crumbs, brown, then bake. I also add lightly steamed asparagus to omelets, which I got from the South Beach Diet book and we really liked that too. Pretty much every time I cook steaks we'll have grilled or broiled asparagus with a little olive oil, sea salt, cracked pepper. The boys love it. They started eating it years ago though, when they watched Veggie Tales and started giggling about "hey, this looks like David the giant killer" and ate it all up.
I'll cut the ends off and sautee them in OO with some salt. I've also roasted them. The deli guy suggested I wrap them in prosciutto so I did that when I had a few slices left over - yum.
I cut them into 1 inch pieces and sautee them in a brown butter then add some cooked pasta, lemon juice, fold in some a package of arugula and toasted pine or sliced almonds with a little parmessan cheese. We love that one.
My kids don't like to eat it so much (they'll eat a little), but hubbie and I love it.
I can sometimes get LO to eat a bit of it, but now that I see Retta idea with bacon, I'll try that as she loves bacon! I've done the oven kind a lot, sometimes will do it in a skillet the same way, but never thought of bacon!
Drizzle with olive oil and garlic and roast in the oven.
I cut the bottom inch off and then sautee them in a frying pan with pam spray...salt and pepper and very yummy...no, kids do not eat them, more for me and hubby :-)
Cut up several strips of bacon and cook them in a non-stick skillet...remove cooked bacon bits and then put asparagus (cut in to one inch pieces) in the bacon grease and cook about 7 to 8 minutes...then squirt in a bit of dijon mustard stir it in and add back the bacon bits. My kids love it because it has bacon...
We steam them and eat them naked.
My son won't touch them...yet.
The produce man told me that after you buy them, cut off the ends and store them standing up in water in the fridge so they stay fresher. It works!
