Tender Asparagus Alongside Mushroom Cream

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Crisp, tender asparagus drenched inwards a sophisticated sparse cream sauce of mushrooms amongst a French Creole sense of savour ... that is how I depict this recipe. Enjoy!

Asparagus amongst Mushroom Cream Sauce
serves nigh 6

1 pound sparse asparagus
1 tablespoon olive oil
ii tablespoons unsalted butter, divided

Mushroom Cream Sauce
1 pound mushrooms, trimmed too sliced thick
1/4 loving cup chopped sugariness onion
1 garlic clove, minced
Salt too freshly reason pepper
1/2 loving cup dry out white wine
1 loving cup chicken stock
1 loving cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon salt-free Creole seasoning
1 tablespoon dry out sherry
Chopped chives for garnish, optional

Wash the asparagus too snap away the tough ends at the natural breaking point. Discard rootage ends.

Bring a large pot of salted H2O to a boil, take from heat. Add the asparagus too allow to laid until crisp-tender, nigh iii minutes. Drain, rinse nether mutual depression temperature H2O too pat dry.

Heat 1 tablespoon butter too the stone oil inwards a skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter melts, add together the mushrooms too onions increasing oestrus to high too cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms bring given upward whatsoever liquid, nigh v minutes. Add garlic, tabular array salt too pepper to sense of savour too stir cooking nigh ii minutes. Stir inwards the vino too simmer until liquid simply nigh evaporates. Stir inwards stock too cut liquid to one-half volume, nigh iv minutes. Add the cream too at simmer, cut oestrus to medium stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, nigh 10 minutes. Stir inwards sherry too continue warm.

Melt the butter inwards a large skillet too toss the asparagus into the butter until heated through, nigh ii minutes. Transfer the asparagus to serving bowl too ladle the mushroom sauce over the top. Garnish amongst chives if desired.