Use asparagus bowls for a soup

Ingredients:

• 1 kg asparagus peels (white)
• 50 g butter or margarine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Salt, nutmeg, pepper
• 1 l vegetable stock
• 40 grams of flour
• 3 tbsp white wine
• 1 bunch of parsley or chives
• 2 egg yolks
• 100 g crème fraîche

Use the asparagus peels

• For the preparation of a healthy soup with asparagus peels, you should use organic quality or products from a farmer with known cultivation methods. This allows you to largely exclude pollutants.
• If you cook a few sticks of the vegetables in the pre-cooked asparagus stock, the soup gets even more of the typical taste.

A sophisticated soup for four people

1. Make the vegetable broth. Put the washed asparagus peels in a large saucepan and stir in a tablespoon of butter, sugar and a good pinch of salt. Fill up with the prepared vegetable stock and let it cook for 25 minutes. Drain the cooked shells through a sieve.
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2. Melt the remaining butter in the saucepan. Let the flour slowly trickle in while stirring and sweat until lightly. Pour the roux with the broth from the asparagus peels (while stirring). After the soup has boiled, remove the saucepan from the hot plate.
3. Put in the white wine. Season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Wash and chop the parsley / chives very finely.


Cooking asparagus soup from bowls

The nutrients in vegetables are concentrated in the skin - including asparagus. The end …

4. Separate two Eggs in yellow and white. Whisk the egg yolks and crème fraîche together and use them to thicken the soup. From now on she is no longer allowed to cook! Serve Them with parsley or chives.

The good tip

• If you have a freezer, you can also simply freeze the washed asparagus peels. To do this, fill them in a plastic container or in a freezer bag.
• So you always have something delicious when you need it vegetables for a soup prepared on the fly.