Tonight, I get a night off from cooking! Sort of. My boyfriend and his roommates are firing up the grill and doing the hard part, so all I have to do is make various marinades for the food. We had some asparagus lying around so I decided to just make a simple marinade to make this Grilled Marinated Asparagus.
Ingredients:
1 bunch of asparagus
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 2 large garlic cloves)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon chopped onion flakes
Salt and pepper, to taste
Combine all the ingredients not including the asparagus. Mix well.
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| asparagus ends |
Place the asparagus on a large piece of tin foil. You will make a little packet out of the tin foil.
Fold up each side of the tin foil, twisting the ends so that they stay together.
Pour the marinade over the asparagus.
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| there it is. in the tin foil |
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| Tim |
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| Kevin |
for not letting my asparagus get soggy. It was great to only have to do the prep work on a dish… a girl could get used to this!
Ingredients
- 1 bunch of asparagus
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 2 large garlic cloves)
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon chopped onion flakes
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients not including the asparagus. Mix well.
- Prepare the asparagus. Remove the rough bottoms of the stems. Asparagus tends to snap where the tougher part ends, or you can just cut the asparagus where you think it needs to be trimmed.
- Place the asparagus on a large piece of tin foil. You will make a little packet out of the tin foil.
- Fold up each side of the tin foil, twisting the ends so that they stay together.
- Pour the marinade over the asparagus.
- Close the foil and marinate for at least one hour. You can either remove the asparagus from the foil and place the asparagus right on the grill, cooking for 6-8 minutes, turning carefully half way through, or you can put the asparagus on the grill in the foil, cooking for about 10 minutes. Either way, grill until the asparagus is tender but still has a crunch to it.
I have to say….I LOVE the idea of marinating the asparagus! I grill it, but I’ve never tried to marinate it!
I love asparagus, but I have never marinaded it before. Great idea!
Oh I grill asparagus all the time, never thought to marinate them! Thanks for sharing!