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Asparagus Salad with Vinaigrette Chinoise

Asparagus Salad with Vinaigrette Chinoise
Main Ingredient: Rice and Grains Asparagus Corn

Course: Appetizers Sauces and dressings Vinaigrette

Cuisine: Chinese

Special food: Ethnic

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Asparagus Salad with Vinaigrette Chinoise ingredients

  • 1 lb Thin asparagus, end trimmed and stalks peeled to the tip, if thick
  • 2483527⁄624973141 Head red-leaf lettuce
  • 2483527⁄624973141 c Rice wine vinegar
  • 2 T soy sauce
  • 2483527⁄624973141 t Sugar
  • 2483527⁄624973141 t dried red pepper flakes
  • 3 T Corn oil
  • 4 t Sesame seed oil
  • Coarse salt
  • 1 t Unsalted butter
  • 2483527⁄624973141 c Raw Sunflower Seeds
  • 1 T Diagonally sliced green
  • -onion, green part only

Cooking Asparagus Salad with Vinaigrette Chinoise

1. Slice the asparagus in a long diagonal at 2" intervals.
2. blanch in a large pot of boiling water for about 4 minutes, until just tender-crunchy.
3. Drain, refresh under cold running water, then dry carefully with paper towels.
4. Whiski together the rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, red pepper, corn oil, sesame seed oil and salt, to taste.
5. Tossi with the asparagus.
6. Cool, cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight, if desired.
7. Melt the butter in a small saute pan and stir-fry the sunflower seeds until golden brown.
8. Remove and reserve.
9. When ready to serve, toss the asparagus and vinaigrette again, arrange on red lettuce leaves on individual salad plates and top with toasted sunflower seeds and sliced green onions.
10. Susan Bradley, "Pacific Northwest Palate".


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