Asparagus Recipe Paleo

Asparagus Mimosa is a classic French recipe that’s the embodiment of spring on a plate! Combining tender-crisp asparagus stalks with a lemony vinaigrette and topped with fluffy, sieved hard boiled eggs—it’s the perfect vegetable dish to serve with Sunday brunch or a colorful spring supper.

This old school asparagus salad recipe is traditionally topped with hard boiled eggs that are pushed through a fine mesh sieve so the bright yellow yolks resemble the small yellow flowers of the mimosa tree, a.k.a. Acacia dealbata. It’s just a coincidence that the similarly-hued mimosa brunch cocktail, made with champagne and orange juice, is named after the same flowers. You can make it a mimosa-inspired meal by serving both on an upcoming weekend!

Because this dish is all about the asparagus, you should pick the best you can find. Choose bright-green stalks with tight buds at the top and check to make sure the trimmed ends aren’t dried out or woody. It doesn’t really matter if you use thin or thick ones, just make sure they’re all the same size so they cook at the same time.

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How to store asparagus: If you don’t cook the asparagus right away, trim the ends and store the stalks with the cut ends in a mason jar filled with water. Loosely cover the jar with a plastic bag and keep it in the fridge for up to a week.

My favorite part of this recipe is the lemony vinaigrette made with minced shallots, lemon zest, lemon juice, champagne vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper. If you don’t have champagne vinegar on hand, you can use more lemon juice or substitute white balsamic or sherry vinegar.

The “mimosa” part of the name comes from the fluffy hard boiled eggs that adorn the top. Although the classic way to prepare the eggs is to push them through a fine mesh sieve, you can also pass them through the small holes of a box grater or just chop them up. Separate the yolks from the whites before chopping them up, so the two colors contrast and pop.

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My favorite way to prepare hard cooked eggs is in the Instant Pot—if you make them ahead of time, this dish can be made in minutes!

I love topping asparagus mimosa with chopped fresh herbs and I use whatever I find at the market. Some of my favorite herbs to use include:

The best thing about this dish is you can prep the components ahead of time and throw everything together right before serving! The cooked asparagus and hard cooked eggs can be stored in the fridge for up to 4 days. Make the vinaigrette the day you serve it, and don’t pour the dressing on the asparagus more than a few hours ahead of time because the stalks will turn a dull greenish brown color. (Yuck.)

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Carefully drop the trimmed asparagus spears in the boiling water and cook for about 2 to 6 minutes (depending on the thickness)…

Carefully dry the asparagus with paper towels or a clean kitchen towel. If the spears are wet, the dressing won’t stick! Arrange the dried spears on a serving platter.

Time to make the vinaigrette! Mix together the shallots, lemon zest, lemon juice, champagne vinegar, kosher salt, and black pepper into a small bowl or liquid measuring cup. Let it all sit for a few minutes to mellow out the shallots.

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Cut the hard cooked eggs in half and separate the cooked yolks from the whites. Push the whites through a fine mesh sieve with a the back of a metal spoon on top of the dressed asparagus.

Next, push the yolks through the fine mesh sieve. Make sure you scrape the outside of the sieve to get all the egg-y goodness!

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While you can boil, steam or sauté it, roasting will make it tender but not mushy. Plus it mellows asparagus’ flavor while it caramelizes in the oven.

First, try to find asparagus that’s medium-to-large thickness. If the asparagus is too skinny (about the diameter of a pencil), it’s easy to overcook it, making it stringy and limp.

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Lay it out on a cutting board. Pick up one spear and hold the bottom end and somewhere about 1/3 of the way up the spear. Bend it until it naturally breaks.

This is how much you should chop off the rest of the spears (the bottom end of the spears tend to get tough).

Now lay the asparagus on the baking sheet and toss with the oil and salt. I find it easiest to use my hands for this.

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When they’re just starting to shrivel a little bit and have brown, caramelized spots (mostly on the bottom but you can see them from the side), they’re ready.

Often roasted vegetables are fine if made in advance. However, oven-roasted asparagus is different. The longer it sits around after getting roasted, the more limp and soggy it’ll become. That’s because the salt will draw out the moisture as it sits. So I recommend enjoying asparagus as soon as you take it out of the oven.

This Easy Roasted Asparagus with Lemon is a simple side dish that goes with so many meals. Roasting is a healthy and straightfoward way to cook asparagus and a bit of lemon at the end perks the flavor right up.

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Optional additions: chopped fresh herbs like parsley, basil or mint; chopped toasted nuts like sliced almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts; a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil or flavored olive oil like garlic or blood orange

Calories: 61 kcal Carbohydrates: 7 g Protein: 3 g Fat: 4 g Saturated Fat: 0.5 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g Sodium: 293 mg Potassium: 266 mg Fiber: 3 g Sugar: 3 g Vitamin A: 863 IU Vitamin C: 21 mg Calcium: 34 mg Iron: 3 mgRoasted Asparagus Recipe – This baked and roasted asparagus in the oven is my quick and easy, toddler approved go to side dish recipe for any busy night! It’s the perfect Whole30, Paleo, AIP, Vegan and Keto side dish.

I’m a HUGE fan of asparagus. I love it and eat it as often as I can find it. It’s one of those simple sides that takes no effort, very little time and compliments just about any dish paired with. I’ve made it several times recently at family functions and had multiple requests for it to go up as a written recipe. It’s a super simple one but here you go guys!

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Looking for another great vegetable to roast? If you haven’t tried Roasted Radishes yet, they are a MUST – just trust me!

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This recipe calls for snapping the stalks and discarding the ends. I explain step by step instructions in the recipe below but I this may not seem necessary or even seem wasteful to some but the bottom ends of the stalks are very woody and stringy and neither I nor my daughter enjoy them so we snap them off. This step of coarse is optional if you know you like the ends. If you’re not sure I’d recommend leaving just a few on to try as testers and removing the rest.

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This roasted whole30 asparagus really couldn’t be easier to make and boy is it delicious! Asparagus, avocado oil, salt and pepper is all this recipe calls for. It’s simple and still flavor-packed. It’s the perfect throw together quick veggie side on busy evenings or an easy side dish that takes up little precious oven time and space on holidays! It’s a true winner. This simple dish is also whole30, paleo, keto, AIP and vegan. Make sure to pin this recipe for later and follow long on Pinterest to see all the amazing dishes (both mine and others’) that I’m sharing!

This roasted whole30 asparagus really couldn’t be easier to make and boy is it delicious! To make this paleo asparagus recipe, begin by preheating the oven to 450 degrees fahrenheit and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Now you are ready to snap off the ends of each asparagus stalk to

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