White Asparagus Recipe from Germany | German Food Made Easy | DW Food
People in Germany love asparagus, especially white asparagus! This vegetarian asparagus recipe is the classic way in which Germans prepare their asparagus, or “Spargel” as they call it - without meat though. As white asparagus is not as easy to source as its green relative, DW Food reporter Max Merrill also explains how to make a delicious salad with green asparagus, rocket and strawberries. Here’s the recipe.
Ingredients:
500g white asparagus per person
3 small potatoes per person
Sugar and salt for the cooking water
For the sauce:
250g salted butter or ghee
5 tbsp breadcrumbs
Method:
Peel the white asparagus very generously and cut off the lower ends. In a pot wide enough for them to lie flat, add water with a little salt and sugar and cook the asparagus in it for no longer than 10 minutes, until the asparagus is firm to the bite. Peel and quarter/halve the potatoes and cook them in salted water. In a small saucepan, heat the butter slowly until it foams, then add the breadcrumbs just as the butter starts to brown. Roast the crumbs until golden, stirring often to avoid burning. Plate up the asparagus and potatoes and top with some parsley and then cover with the sauce!
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My absolute favorite veg. I remember the long days on my grandfather’s farm getting the white gold out of the ground.
竹笋 the first time I saw green and white Spargel in Germany, it reminded me of the bamboo shoots. They grow the whole year, but the spring and winter bamboo shoots are the best. Bamboo shoots are not only daily cooked but also pickled and preserved for a long time .
I like those simple but delicious dishes. One or two ingredients but maximize its taste.
Hi Max, thank you for this recipe. Today i am trying it. By the way, my husband is German, and he does not like white asparagus! I am from Turkey, i did not know asparagus before moving to Germany but i really like it 🤪 and a vegetable which we eat especially in summer a lot in Turkey is Ocra. It is not known in Germany, but i strongly suggest it ☺ LG
It's known, but certainly not common.
@Limon Kolonyası Ocra is definitely worth a try! Another typical turkish vegetable that is not well known here is is Purslane (Semizotu). Tastes very good with cucumber and fresh yoghurt served as a salad.🌿
Yummy!
My boyfriend is belgian and he loved your recipe (I just cooked it :)) thanks!
And you Bulgarian?
You can find the complete recipe and cooking method in the description. Bon appetit!
I love white asparagus!!!
I come from Germany and i Love White Asparagus. Jimmy😋😋
Thanks for share a recipe! I will find out white asparagus in Thailand! The dish look yummy 🤤
Cool
Sieht echt lecker aus bei dir. Schade, dass die Saison schon vorbei ist. Grüße von der Beelitzer Spargelstraße.
Suggestion from a neighbour from the west side: If you use a cheese slicer to peel then you only have to peel one time and it is always right.
I think we can cook a pasta with those asparagus peels. Bacon and asparagus Delish.
Thanks for this recipe! Do you add in cold water and bring to a boil or do you add in boiling water to the pan with the asparagus?
Looks awesome I’ve only seen green asparagus in SA is there a taste different
Yes, white asparagus tastes very different than the green one. It's not so common in other countries while you'll find it everywhere in Germany.
@@DWFood...and France!
Young bamboo is similar imo
Max is crazy good-looking.
*blushing*
My friend a spargel topf and he stood the spargel boiled them. Was that correct?.
@DAvid Tissera It does not really matter actually. The asparagus becomes softer during the cooking process and therefore can no longer stand "upright" in the pot anyway. If you still want to cook it upright: make sure you bundle it up!
@@DWFood Thanks, doing the green asperagus tomorrow.
When you do the white asparagus you serve it with, potatoes or ham. What else can I serve it with. Around 5.30pm, none are great wine drinkers, actually they prefer half dry which I dislike.
When I first tasted Asparagus (at 21 years old on vacation), I thouhgt I had a problem with my kidneys afterwards because I did not know that it makes your pee smell veeery bad😂😂
fun fact: only people with a specific gene variant produce stinky asparagus pee. fun fact 2: only people with a specific, different gene variant are able to smell stinky asparagus pee
no sauce hollondaise?
2:34 I feeled sorry for you
Kuno kuZimbabwe tinned asparagus uakazanganiswa nedovi
10mins is FAR too long for any kind of asparagus. 5-6 mins max, I prefer 4 minutes.
Belgian white asparagus come in 4 different sizes: A (16-20mm), B (12-16mm), AA (20-28mm sold most) and AAA (>28 mm, restaurant quality). They all have different cooking times. 10 min is most definitely not far too long for any kind. It might be for green asparagus.
@@meurteltje maybe for AAA, the best I can find here in the states is about 22mm unfortunately. I miss european asparagus season, the best asparagus I ever had was at my grandmas house in Utrecht. I really miss it.
Germans? Crazy? On which planet? Incidentally, in Poland, they're very keen on their raw wódka.
You grew up in Berlin? Why do you have a British accent? Maybe you moved there after you turned 9 then.
I tried this white asparagus for the first time this year and it was disgusting. Not the flavor, but the consistency, horrible. And this butter and breadcrumb mixture on it only makes it worse. Will never eat this again in my life.
This made me laugh soooo hard because that’s exactly how I felt about Spargel too!!
I live in Germany and I have never heard white asparagus topped with a butter and bread crumb sauce
@Angela Hammeroder But now you have heard about it! 😉
Might be a northern thingy, we eat it with a nice home made sauce holondaise, ham and potato down here in the south.
@@DWFood nope, live in the North/west of Germany and never heard of it
@@jonasduell9953 I’m in Northwestern Germany and also eat it with Hollandaise sauce, boiled potatoes and ham
@@ahimmeroder5817 brown butter and bread crumbs is more a Northeast German way of serving aspargus. No wonder, Max knows it from the Berlin region. You would find this with other vegetables like caulifloer or black salsifies there, too. The bread crumbs can also be replaces by shaved almonds if you want be more fancy. In my northestern region white aspargus woulde be serve with the brown breadcrumb butter, boilded salted potatoes and a schnitzel.
Too much talking bro. Get to the cooking.
No, it’s great!
@@hofhofandaway yes of course.