Easy, Tasty Cream of Asparagus Soup
A delicious asparagus soup for anyone watching their health and waistline! What kind of food is asparagus, you ask… well, it's not just any food, but a very wholesome and tasty one. Especially asparagus soup. After all, everyone loves asparagus these days, ordering it and dishes made with it at restaurants. By the way, the shoots are eaten both cooked in gourmet dishes and fresh. So if you don't want to fall behind the trendsetters who eat asparagus almost every day and can't praise their health enough, let's try making asparagus soup today with this recipe — which is simple and memorable, by the way.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather the ingredients you'll need.
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Step 2:
Put the peeled, washed asparagus in a large pot, cover it with 2 cups of water, and add a little salt,
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Step 3:
and cook for 15–20 minutes.
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Step 4:
Set aside 20–25 asparagus tips.
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Step 5:
Cook the flour in the butter.
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Step 6:
Whisk the flour with the milk and bring it to a boil.
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Step 7:
Add the asparagus along with its cooking liquid to the pot of milk and cook for another 10–15 minutes.
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Step 8:
Press the finished soup through a sieve or purée it with a blender.
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Step 9:
Add salt to taste, ladle the soup into bowls, add the reserved asparagus tips, and garnish with parsley.
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Step 10:
If you like, serve the asparagus soup with croutons. Enjoy!
- Set aside and trim 20–25 asparagus tips for the garnish. Wash the rest of the asparagus thoroughly. Cut it up and set it to cook for 15–20 minutes, adding two cups of water and a little salt. Take a soup pot and lightly cook a couple of tablespoons of flour in the same amount of butter. Then whisk in four cups of milk and bring it to a boil. Add the asparagus to this, along with its cooking liquid. Let it cook for 10–15 minutes. When the dish is done, press it through a sieve. Don't forget to add salt to taste. It's a good idea to finish the soup with a little butter before serving. And don't forget to add the asparagus tips you cooked for the garnish to the soup. Serve the croutons separately.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat - 54 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Unsalted table butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted farmer's butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Salted farmer's butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Clarified butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- White asparagus - 14 kcal/100g
