(I.e. Preparation time: 20 minutes 👨🍳 Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Discover this fresh spring recipe in which green asparagus meets a surprising mint dressing and Parmesan cheese. This colorful salad is ideal as a side dish for Easter or a summer picnic and includes handy tips for perfectly cooked eggs and scoop tips for a quick, tasty preparation. With a light dressing and crunchy asparagus, you can create an irresistible salad in just 20 minutes that will shine on Instagram and in the kitchen
Ok ok I'll be honest... I'm really bad at cooking the perfect egg! And that's because I forget that an egg is cooking. I rarely set my kitchen timer, and then suddenly after a few minutes I realize it. Well, how long have they been on? And how long do they still have to be? To be sure, I let them cook a little longer, with very hard-boiled eggs as a result. In this recipe I'll give you the tip for perfectly boiled eggs with a nice soft egg yolk! Preparing the green asparagus is also a piece of cake, they only need to be blanched for a very short time. This asparagus recipe for asparagus salad with mint dressing fits perfectly on your Easter table. But also at other times.
Asparagus Salad with Mint Dressing – Fresh Side Dish with Green Asparagus
And then we didn't even mention the dressing in this asparagus recipe! It really makes your salad as far as I'm concerned. And in this case we add a surprising ingredient. Perhaps not something you would expect very quickly, namely:
Parmesan cheese. I learned to eat this before in France, where they also served their salads with this kind of dressing. Preparing the green asparagus is very easy, but pay attention to the thickness of your asparagus. In this case I bought very thin ones, if you have the somewhat thicker version you will also have to blanch them a little longer.
This asparagus salad with mint dressing is a fresh and tasty addition to your Easter table or summer picnic. It combines the crunch of green asparagus with a creamy dressing and salty bacon
Step-by-step Preparation of the Recipe
Here you will find the complete recipe with all the ingredients you need. I hope you have fun preparing the dish below.
Fresh Asparagus Salad with Mint Dressing & Parmesan Cheese
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- 4 eggs
- 400 gram green asparagus
- 100 gram fried bacon - (ready-made from the supermarket)
- 1 el cress
- 50 gram Parmesan cheese - in thin slices
For the dressing:
- 40 gram Parmesan cheese - grated with microplane
- 2 el French mustard
- 1 el capers
- 6 leaves fresh mint
- 1 tl peper
- 1 tl salt
- 50 ml white aceto balsamic
- 70 ml olive oil
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And this is how you make it:
- Let's make the dressing first. Grate the Parmesan cheese with your microplane grater. Place all ingredients in the blender except the olive oil. Turn until you have a smooth sauce, then add the oil. Turn again and then pour everything into a glass bottle. Set aside until use.
- Place a large pan on the stove and fill it with water and a pinch of salt. Blanch your green asparagus in this. (A minute or 3/4 for the thin version, a minute or 5/6 for the thicker version.) Scoop them out of the pan and let drain.
- Put the eggs in the water and cook them for 6,5 minutes! Then scoop them out of the pan into a bowl of ice water. To do this, literally put a few ice cubes in a bowl of water. Let the eggs cool in it.
- Place the asparagus in a large bowl and add the fried bacon, Parmesan cheese slices and cress.
- Peel the eggs and carefully cut them in the middle. Place them in the bowl and drizzle the dressing over the salad. Season to taste with some freshly ground salt and pepper.
- Delicious bites!
- The dressing can be kept in the fridge for a few days.
- A microplane grater is a grater with very fine holes, everything you grate comes out almost like “snow”.
- I bought the bacon already fried from the supermarket. If you use fresh bacon, fry a few slices yourself in a frying pan.
Love asparagus? We here at home too, so be sure to try this one too:
These white asparagus in bechamel sauce.
Or how about this two-color asparagus plate cake?
But also this “waterzooi” with asparagus and Dutch shrimps.
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Super tasty salad
Springtime delicious!