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Asparagus Cream Pasta
Recipe by:
HEIDI S.
Fresh asparagus is blanched then sauteed in butter and garlic. Served over linguine pasta with a rich lemon cream sauce. Makes a great midweek meal.
Ready in 25 minutes
Saved as a favourite by 17 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1 bunch fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 5cm pieces
- 30g butter
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 450ml cream
- 500g linguine
- 1 lemon, juiced
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Preparation method
Prep: 5 minutes | Cook: 20 minutes1.
Bring a saucepan of water to a boil. Boil asparagus for 3 to 4 minutes; drain.
2.
In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Saute garlic and asparagus for 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in cream and simmer for 10 minutes.
3.
Meanwhile, cook linguine according to pack instructions; drain and transfer to a serving dish. Stir lemon juice into asparagus mixture; pour mixture over pasta.
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Last updated:
19 Feb 2013
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This was a pretty good sauce with a lot of potential. It definately took longer than 10 mintues to thicken, so plan on at least 20 minutes (and be flexible in cheating by adding a bit more roux (1 tablespoon each melted butter and flour mixed well) to help speed things up). As far as flavour, I felt this recipe needed quite a bit more lemon to spruce it up. The lemon and asparagus go wonderfully together, so don't be shy.
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29 Sep 2008
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KRISTY31
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This is quite good and very easy to make. I thought it needed something more so I put in fresh mushrooms and it added a lot of flavour.
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29 Sep 2008
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ShadowB
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This is a good recipe but we added sun dried tomatos, a little cream cheese(to thicken the sauce), and fresh parmesan cheese all to the sauce while it was cooking. It was very tasty!
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29 Sep 2008
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NORMA47
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This is very easy to make. It does take longer than 10 minutes for the sauce to thicken and by that time the asparagus was mush. Needed some more seasonings for more flavour unless you like a very mild pasta dish. Next time I'll keep some steamed asparagus to serve with the sauce in addition to what is in the sauce.
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deborah w.
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Was a tasty dish, but it took longer than 10 minutes for sauce to thicken.
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Nutrition
- Calories 247.8 kcal
- Calories from Fat 42.4 kcal
- Fat 4.7 g
- Saturated Fat 2.4 g
- Cholesterol 10.1 mg
- Sodium 38.2 mg
- Potassium 152 mg
- Carbohydrate 44.1 g
- Dietary Fibre 3.9 g
- Protein 8.4 g
- Vitamin A 123.1 mcg
- Vitamin C 16.1 mg
- Calcium 33.3 mg
- Iron 2.5 mg
- Thiamin 0.4 mg
- Niacin Equivalents 3.2 mg
- Vitamin B6 0.1 mg
- Magnesium 32.7 mg
- Folate 175 mcg