How To Cook Grilled Asparagus

In this step by step cookery tutorial the masterful Nick Timothy shows you how to make delicious asparagus with butter and lemon juice - just perfect for friends or family! Enlarge

How To Cook Grilled Asparagus

In this step by step cookery tutorial the masterful Nick Timothy shows you how to make delicious asparagus with butter and lemon juice - just perfect for friends or family!

Prep:
5m
Cook:
5m
Total:
10m
Serves:
1

Ingredients

  • 10 spears asparagus
  • 20 g butter
  • 1/2 lemon

Step 1: Prepare The Asparagus

Snap each spear of asparagus in half, and then trim the ends off each piece.

Step 2: Boil The Asparagus

Bring a saucepan of water to boiling point, place the asparagus pieces into this saucepan, and leave to boil for about 3 minutes.

Step 3: Blanch And Then Grill The Asparagus

Transfer the asparagus pieces to cold water. Bring a griddle pan to heat, take the asparagus out of the water, and then place each piece into the griddle pan. After about 2 minutes, add the butter to the pan, and then squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the pan.

Step 4: Serve

Take the asparagus out of the pan and plate up, then pour the butter and juice over the asparagus pieces and around the plate.