asparagus salad with creamy mustard sauce

Name: Asparagus salad with creamy mustard sauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound(s) asparagus trimmed and steamed until crisp tender and chilled in an ice bath; - lettuce leaves, butter or bibb lettuce; - grape tomatoes cut in half; - sweet onion sliced; - creamy mustard sauce-recipe follows

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Dorothy Curtis

Canby, OR

Updated on Jun 3, 2014

This is one of our favorite salads when asparagus is nice and fresh and reasonable to buy. I copied the recipe for 4 but it is easy to cut down to serve only 2.

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Asparagus salad with creamy mustard sauce.

prep time 15 Min

cook time 5 Min

method Steam

yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

1 pound asparagus trimmed and steamed until crisp tender and chilled in an ice bath
- lettuce leaves, butter or bibb lettuce
- grape tomatoes cut in half
- sweet onion sliced
- creamy mustard sauce-recipe follows

How To Make asparagus salad with creamy mustard sauce

Step 1

Place lettuce leaf on a small plate and add the asparagus, tomatoes, and onion slices.

Step 2

Drizzle with some of the creamy mustard sauce.
Step 3

Creamy Mustard Sauce: In a bowl, stir toegther 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon white-wine vinegar, and 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard. Season with salt and pepper.
Step 4

The sauce also works good over warm steamed asparagus.
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