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Sunday 24 May 2015

How To Make Asparagus Wrapped In Schwarzwälder Ham or Bacon

Asparagus or Spargel, as we call it in Germany, is in season. A time to eat fresh, healthy and delicious asparagus. Although it is not cheap, one has to enjoy the taste of this Spring perennial plant of the lily family. 500 gram of asparagus costs at least 3 Euro in the supermarket. This is then good for 2 persons.

I know that not all people love the taste of asparagus as I did not like eating this vegetable before. The first time I have eaten this food was with peeled boiled potatoes and a white cream sauce. It did not taste well for me maybe because I still had the Filipino taste at that time. Then it came to my mind how I could make the asparagus delicious for my taste and voila, I have found the way. With the use of bacon and sometimes with Schwarzwälderschinken (Black Forest ham).



Fried asparagus wrapped with bacon and Schwarwälder ham

Ingredients: 2 persons


  • 500 gram asparagus, green or white (6-8 pieces)
  • 4 slices of bacon
  • 4 slices of Schwarzwälder ham (smoked ham from Schwarzwald, Germany)
  • 1 pack of Hollandaise sauce with lemon
Tip: You can use all 8 bacon or 8 Schwarzwälder ham pieces if you like the asparagus in one taste.

How To:

  1. Peel the skin of the asparagus while cooking a pot of water.
  2. Wash the asparagus and blanch them in the boiling water for 2-3 minutes. Get the asparagus from the boiling water.
  3. Wrap every 2 asparagus with 2 pieces of bacon or with Schwarzwälder ham while heating the frying pan with olive oil.
  4. Fry the wrapped asparagus in both sides until brown.
  5. Heat the Hollandaise sauce with lemon in a small sauce pan.
  6. Serve the wrapped asparagus with boiled or mashed potatoes with Hollandaise sauce.
  7. Guten Appetit! Enjoy your meal!
Preparation and cooking time: ca. 30 minutes

                                     
                                      Asparagus with skin


                                     Blancing asparagus


                                      Frying asparagus


Wrapped asparagus with bacon and Schwarzwälder ham, boiled potatoes and Hollandaise 
sauce.

Maybe, you will like eating asparagus now like I do. Thanks for reading. If you enjoy this recipe, maybe you would like to visit my recipes in my other writing site Hubpages. Just click on this red link. Enjoy your day!

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4 comments:

  1. Interesting foods! There are many foods in Germany that I barely don't know.

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  2. I have not known asparagus and other food too before I came here in Germany. Asparagus comes only in Spring. I think it only grows in cold countries. Thanks ilagan shy.

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  3. Yes, asparagus only grows in cold countries, but I can somehow buy it in the mall rarely ms. Thelma. This dish, I never knew it until you have posted.

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    1. I have seen asparagus in cans and glas bottles sold in Gaisano in BXU where the imported products are but I did not buy them as they were so expensive. I am glad you learned something new from the food department;-))) Thanks for your comment Shane.

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