Sautéed Asparagus with Chives

Total time: 25 minutes
     Asparagus is one of the long awaited signs of spring.  Most often steamed, occasionally roasted or grilled, I have discovered simple frying to be quick, and leave the asparagus a beautiful green color and full of flavor.

 Ingredients:

• 8oz (250gr) asparagus, 225gr, 8oz
• 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, 4.8oz
• 1 tbs fresh snipped chives
• sea salt, 1.5gr, .05oz

 Instructions:

• Snap off ends of asparagus.  If white use vegetable peeler and peel the bottom half of stalk. 
• Heat oil in a nonstick skillet just big enough to easily hold the asparagus without cutting.  Add asparagus and sauté over medium heat until they start to brown and blister, 8 - 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle with salt and chives, roll around to coat, remove and serve.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:   164 / 82 Total Carbohydrates:  9 / 4.5           Dietary Fiber:   5 / 2.5 Total Fat:   14 / 7          Saturated Fat:   2 / 1 Cholesterol:   0 / 0 Protein:   5 / 2.5 Calcium:   54 / 27 Sodium:    562 / 281

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/