Asparagus Venetian

"I love fresh asparagus and I'm always looking for different ways to prepare it. This is very rich and if you don't like a lot of salt you may want to use only one-half of the onion soup mixture. Our tastes run on the "heavy salted" side so we like to sop up the left-over juice with a piece of crusty french bread. If you like a lot of cheese feel free to increase the mozzarella to 1/2 cup or to taste. Watch closely while in the oven to make sure it doesn't burn. The onion/butter mixture is enough for 2 pounds but you can refrigerate the remainder for another time. I even cut the amount back to 2 Tbsp of butter mixture dribbled over one pound and found it was plenty - it's all personal preference."
 
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Ready In:
22mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
3

ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
  • Rinse asparagus and snap off hard ends.
  • Place asparagus in 8" microwave safe dish and cover with plastic wrap.
  • Microwave on high for 5 minutes then remove and set aside still covered.
  • In microwave safe bowl melt butter.
  • Add dry onion soup mix to melted butter, stirring until well mixed.
  • Drain water off asparagus and place in oven proof baking dish.
  • Drizzle with 4 tbsp of butter/onion soup mixture.
  • Sprinkle with black pepper, white pepper, garlic powder and cayenne pepper to taste, tossing gently.
  • Sprinkle with parmesean cheese and mozzarella cheese.
  • Bake in oven for 5 minutes, turning halfway through cooking time.

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Living in the south we are very lucky to have an abundance of fresh seafood and other ingredients at our disposal when trying new recipes. My husband and I both love to cook and have learned a lot about cooking from our native Louisianian, Paul Prudhomme (we learned to be very careful with his recipes as they are very spicy - even for us), native New Orleanian, Frank Davis and transplanted Emeril Lagasse. It would be very difficult to pick an all time favorite cookbook since I have approximately 200. I enjoy collecting local cookbooks as well as others from different areas. This picture is obviously when DH and I got married. I cooked all the food and even made my wedding cake.
 
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