Recipes

Asparagus toasties

Name: Asparagus toasties
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1kg Valais white asparagus; 8 slices of your choice of bread; 4 slices of Raclette du Valais AOP cheese; 4 tsp bear garlic pesto or your choice of pesto; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 tbsp cooking butter; Salt; Pepper

Category
Starter
Difficulty
Easy
Nutritional value / pers.
350 kcal
Total time
50 min
Preparation time
30 min
Resting time
20 min

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 220°C.
Peel the asparagus and arrange them on a tray lined with baking paper. Douse with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the asparagus is tender.
Cut the asparagus and cheese into slices the same length as the bread.
Spread the bear garlic pesto on four of the bread slices. Lay a slice of cheese and a few asparagus pieces on each of the four remaining bread slices. Cover with the other bread slices, pesto side down.
Heat the butter in a pan, then fry each sandwich for 3 to 5 minutes on each side until golden-brown. You can also cook the toasties in the oven for around 10 minutes at 200°C on a tray lined with baking paper.
Serve warm with a green salad.

Recipe by: Héloïse Martinez, @Mrs Martinez cooks

Suggestion

You can make your own pesto by blending 100g of bear garlic or your choice of fresh herbs with 80g of grilled pine nuts, 60g of Sbrinz AOP cheese, 100ml of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of salt.