Serve this side dish at your next Simple Celebration along with our pretzel chicken, pork tenderloin, or filet recipes listed on our entrée page. The recipe below is for asparagus, but green beans are also awesome!!
Make Ahead Asparagus
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 bunches asparagus
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp fresh herbs chives, basil, dill, and/or rosemary
- kosher salt
- fresh ground pepper
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese freshly grated
Instructions
- The easiest way to prepare the asparagus is to take about 4 stalks in your hand and bend, until they snap.
- Put asparagus in a large fry pan with enough water to cover about half the asparagus.
- Bring water to boil and cook for several minutes - until you can spear the asparagus but it still remains firm and drain.
- You can do the above steps up to several hours before finishing the dish.
- Put olive oil in the pan with the drained asparagus.
- Sauté asparagus until slightly browned and warm.
- Add herbs and salt and pepper to taste.
- Place on a pretty platter and top with parmesan cheese.