Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip

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Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip. Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable. It was once classified in the lily family, like the related Allium species, onions and garlic. However, genetic research places lilies, Allium, and asparagus in three separate families.

Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip If you are using a screen reader to navigate the Woolworths website please select the "Accessibility On" switch in accessibility settings. Asparagus is a nutritious and tasty addition to any diet. It's low in calories and a great source of nutrients, including fiber, folate and vitamins A, C and K. You can cook Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip

  1. You need 50 g of Asparagus.
  2. You need 50 g of Green beans.
  3. You need 1 tbsp of sour cream.
  4. It's 1/2 of lime juice.
  5. It's 2 cm of piece of chilli.
  6. It's of olive oil.
  7. It's of salt and pepper.

Asparagus does best in a rich friable soil that has lots of organic matter added to it. You need to work compost and manure into the soil so you are adding about one third compost and cow manure to two thirds soil. The delicate spears of this seasonal vegetable can be blanched, griddled, roasted or served raw. We get asparagus for as little as two months of the year, so it's well worth making the most of it when it appears, which is somewhere from around the end of April into June.

Asparagus & Green Beans with Chilli Lime Dip step by step

  1. Drizzle asparagus and green beans with oil and salt and then cook in a preheated 180°C oven for 10 minutes.
  2. Mix together the juice of half a lime, chopped chilli, sour cream and a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
  3. Serve and enjoy, preferably outside in the sun!.

The earliest shoots are called 'sprue'. Asparagus is a herbaceous perennial, with both male and female plants. Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil. Thorough preparation of the soil is needed as asparagus crowns are long-lived. In ancient times, asparagus was renowned as an aphrodisiac, and maybe for good reason.