Starters & Light meals

Asparagus with anchovy butter

Name: Asparagus with anchovy butter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Starters & Light meals
Ingredients: pack asparagus 1 x 170 g ,butter 125 g,anchovies 8,lemon zest 1t,lemon juice 2 T,Woolworths oak-smoked Stanford cheese 120 g

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

cooking Time 15 minutes

“This is made often in my house – we use broccoli when we don’t have asparagus. We like to pile it up and offer to guests as a snack or starter drizzled with plenty of the anchovy butter for mopping up.” – Abigail Donnelly

Wine/Spirit Pairing

Babylonstoren Chenin Blanc

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Ingredients

Method

1 x 170 g pack asparagus
125 g butter
8 anchovies
1 t lemon zest
2 T lemon juice
120 g Woolworths oak-smoked Stanford cheese

Method

Ingredients

1. Braai or chargrill the asparagus.

2. Blend the butter, anchovies, lemon zest and juice.

3. Melt the butter and drizzle over the asparagus. Serve with a wedge of cheese.

Cook's note: Make a big batch of anchovy butter to freeze in ice trays ready to jazz up steamed or roasted veggies. Pop out a cube of frozen umami, melt and drizzle!

Find more asparagus recipes here.

Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Abigail Donnelly and Kate Wilson
Food assistants: Emma Nkunzana and Josh Van Zyl

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Recipe by: Abigail Donnelly

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