Asparagus with Sesame or Chinese Asparagus Salad

Total time: 30 minutes
     Adapted from the book of '!,000 Chinese Recipes), this is wonderful as a vegetable, on a bit of lettuce as a first course salad, or as part of a Chinese meal.  It's best served at room temperature.  

 Ingredients:

• 12oz (350gr) green asparagus, 350gr, 12.4oz
• 2 tsp soy sauce, 10.6gr, .38oz
• 1/2 tsp sugar, 2.1gr, .07oz
• 1 tsp sesame oil, 4.5gr, .16oz
• 1 tsp sesame seeds, 3gr, .1oz

 Instructions:

• Snap off ends of asparagus. 
• Roll cut asparagus in 1 inch (2.5 cm) lengths. 
• Fill large saucepan half full of water and bring to a boil over high heat. 
• When boiling drop in asparagus and parboil for 2 minutes. 
• Drain and immediately rinse with cold water. 
• Spread them on paper towels and pat dry. 
• In a bowl big enough to nicely hold the asparagus mix soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. 
• Add asparagus and toss lightly to coat.  Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve.  Best if allowed to sit for 15 - 30 minutes.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:   140 / 70 Total Carbohydrates:  17 / 8           Dietary Fiber:   8 / 4 Total Fat:   6 / 3          Saturated Fat:   1 / .5 Cholesterol:   0 / 0 Protein:   9 / 4.5 Calcium:   115 / 57.5 Sodium:    608 / 304

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/