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Stir-fried Asparagus in XO Sauce
Since my family loves asparagus, I am trying my best to cook them as much as I can, before the current Mexican asparagus (the thicker variety) ends. The prices are really cheapest this week, so I reckon it must the peak of the season.
See Also:
- Tutorial: How to Prep Asparagus
- Recipe: Stir-fried Asparagus with Scallop
- Recipe: Roasted Asparagus with Garlic, Lemon & Thyme
This stir-fried asparagus in XO Sauce a very easy dish, because XO Sauce on its own is so flavourful, one doesn’t need much further seasoning when wokking the dish.
This is the Mexican asparagus I cooked with. To me, the pencil-thin variety of asparagus doesn’t make a good pairing in terms of status with the expensive XO Sauce (lol). Cooking this home costs only a fraction of the price charged at Chinese restaurants.
XO Sauce is a seafood sauce popular in Cantonese cuisine and it’s rather pricey (about S$20 per bottle) due to the dried scallops which is a premium Chinese dried good. To me, foods coated in XO sauce simply taste good, so it is a god-sent sauce for stir frying for lazy cooks like me.
A classic! I am so happy that asparagus season is here.
The thick Mexican asparagus season seems to have ended here because they are not on sale anymore! :(
same here. suddenly ended T_T
Thanks for sharing this! Would love to try Cook it haha
May I know why asparagus need to be blanched.
May I know why we need to blanch the asparagus.
this is to help the thick asparagus cook through nicely when added to the wok.