This salad is very easy to cook. Use green asparagus (gurin asuparagasu) to enjoy this fresh dish in a small bowl.
Ingredients (4 servings):
20 spears of green asparagus – trimmed
1/2 tea spoon salt
2 tea spoons Karashi (yellow Japanese mustard)
2 tea spoons water
1 egg
1 tea spoon soy sauce
Directions:
- cut off the hard part near the root of asparagus
- scrape off the outer skin and cut into half, keep only the spears
- cut spears into bite sized pieces
- mix the mustard with the water
- fill a pot with water and salt
- bring to boil, add asparagus simmer until tender
- add egg and soy sauce to mustard mixture and stir
- put asparagus into bowl, top spears with this sauce
