Asparagus à la Livar

Asparagus à la Livar: A new take on asparagus à la Flamande with the classic components like ham, egg, potatoes and butter. To match the dish even better with our special white beer Livar White Gold the traditional components are used slightly differently to achieve the most beautiful beer-food combination. While maintaining culinary tradition, of course.

Ingredients (for 4 persons)

For the asparagus

For the asparagus beurre blanc

For the oil of wild garlic and chives

For the potato mousseline

For the béarnaise

Other trimmings

  1. For the potato mousseline, boil the crumbly potatoes (without skin) in water until tender. Push them through a bulb sieve with a scraper or ladle. Meanwhile, warm the milk, cooking cream and lard in a pan and stir well. Then add the mixture to the potatoes. Season the mousseline with a little salt and nutmeg. 
  2. Peel the asparagus, put all the ingredients in a vacuum bag and cook the asparagus sous vide at 88 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes. Remove the asparagus from the bag and save the liquid for the sauce. No sous vide machine? Then cook the white asparagus al dente in 10 minutes with the peels and other ingredients added in the kettle. For the asparagus cooking liquid, mix 100 grams of asparagus cooking water with 100 grams of cooking cream. With either method, immediately chill the asparagus back in the fridge. Before serving, warm in a knob of butter with a little water. 
  3. Put the Noilly Prat, shallot, lemongrass and ginger in a saucepan and reduce to one-fourth over medium-high heat. Pass through a sieve and add the asparagus cooking liquid. Also add a very small amount of water. Bring to the boil once over medium-high heat and remove from the heat. Using a hand blender, blend the sauce with the binder and cold butter until you have a nice emulsion. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Warm up in a saucepan before use, but do not let boil any more! The sauce may then separate due to the acids in it.
  4. Blanch the scallions and chives for half a minute and immediately cool back on ice water. Pat completely dry. In a blender, put the chives, chives and grapeseed oil together and pass through a sieve with kitchen paper or a coffee filter. Warm the asparagus beurre blanc and mix with the green oil (ratio 80% sauce, 20% oil) for a nice flaked white-green sauce. Do not mix too long, as the oil will dissolve completely in the sauce and you will lose the zest.
  5. Make the béarnaise. Refer to this clip. Instead of gastrique, use tarragon vinegar. Finally, add some freshly chopped tarragon and put away covered in a warm place.
  6. Warm up all components, dress the dish with the remaining garnishes and serve with a delicious ice-cold glass of Livar White Gold.

Make this dish with...

Livar cooked ham

 74,85

Livar rendered lard

 4,20

Livar Ceramic plate

 96,80