Asparagus with Blood Orange Mayonnaise

"Vegetables with citrus mayonnaise. "
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
3
Serves:
2-4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Prepare the asparagus by removing the "wooden" part of the stalk.
  • Do this by gently bending the spear until it breaks of its own accord.
  • This will remove the less edible portion.
  • Cut the stalks to equal length for formal presentation.
  • Steam asparagus just past al dente, drain and plate.
  • Squeeze the juice from the Italian blood orange.
  • Slowly mix the juice into the mayonnaise to avoid lumping.
  • For extra color and flavor some of the minced zest may be scattered over the spears.
  • Plate the spears on an oblong platter with the tips all facing in one direction.
  • Run a swath of the seasoned mayonnaise down the center of the asparagus.
  • Sprinkle zest over the plate and serve.

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  1. With commercial mayonnaise, this looked like Asparagus in Pepto-Bismol. I think this might work fine with homemade mayonnaise, though, which would be yellower. I love asparagus with a citrus mayonnaise, so I was really looking forward to this, but the blood orange juice naturally tinted the storebought mayonnaise the most unnatural shade of pink. I have no idea what it actually tasted like, because every time I looked at it my mouth started expecting strawberries or bubblegum.
     
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