Asparagus Strudel Recipes

ASPARAGUS STRUDEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400ºF
• Heat olive oil in skillet on medium-high heat.
• Add garlic and leeks and sauté until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in mint and orange rind, season with salt and pepper and cool.
• Combine leek mixture with goat cheese.
• Lay pastry on a floured surface and roll out to a 10 x 14-inch rectangle.
• Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Divide cheese mixture in half.
• Pile half of mixture along upper third of pastry lengthwise, leaving a 1-inch wide border on short sides and top.
• Lay asparagus spears evenly over top of filling.
• Cover with remaining cheese mixture.
• Brush all inside edges of pastry with beaten egg.
• Fold pastry over filling and tuck ends under.
• Slash top of strudel on the diagonal every 2-inches.
• Brush with egg.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.

ASPARAGUS & RICOTTA STRUDEL (VEGETARIAN OR NOT YOUR CHOICE.)

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 375.
• Combine ricotta cheese, parmesan, dill, ham (if using), roasted pepper, green onion, egg white, salt, and pepper in a large bowl; set aside.
• Snap asparagus. Cut into 1/2 inch pieces. Cook, covered, in a small amount of water for about 5 minutes or just till crisp tender (don't overcook). Drain. Cool under cold water. Stir into ricotta mixture.
• Place one sheet of phyllo on a dry towel (keep remaining phyllo covered with a damp towel). Spray with Pam. Place another sheet of phyllo atop. Spray with Pam. Sprinkle with 1/4 of the bread crumbs. Repeat with remaining sheets and remaining bread crumbs. Spray last layer with Pam. Spoon cheese mixture lenghwise onto half of the top layer of phyllo, leaving about a 1 1/2 inch border on all sides. Fold in the shor sides over the filling. Starting from the longest side, roll up layers jelly roo style.
• Spray a large baking sheet with Pam. Place strudel, seam side down, on baking sheet. Spray with Pam. Using a sharp knife, score into 12 slices, cutting through top layer only. Bake in a 375 oven for 30 minutes or till light brown. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. To serve, cut into slices.

MUSHROOM AND ASPARAGUS STRUDEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Heat half the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Saute shallots and mushrooms until most of the moisture has evaporated.
• Mix in asparagus and saute until slightly tender.
• Cool slightly.
• Spinkle with parsley, lemon zest, lemon joice, pepper and 3 tbsp Parmesan cheese. Mix.
• Brush first sheet of phylio with olive oil and spinkle with 1/4 tsp tyme. Repeat with the remaining phylio sheets, stacking one on top of the other with the longer sides parallel to the counter's edge.
• Place filling along the longer edge o phylio and roll inot a log, ticking in the sides to prevent mixture from falling out.
• Brush strudel with olive oil and top with remaining cheese.
• Place on parchment-paper lined baking sheet with seam o the bottom and cut three slits widhwise into the top of the strudel.
• Bake for about 17 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool slightly.
• Slice whre strudel is slit to make four equal portions, then serve.

ASPARAGUS STRUDEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a small saute pan, melt the butter, add the garlic and onions and crumbled pepper, about 3 minutes.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm and liquid.
• Using parchment facilitates rolling the strudel.
• Work on parchment to moisten your phyllo and ultimately, you can transfer the parchment to a jellyroll pan.
• Lay out one sheet of phyllo, and be sure to cover the rest with a damp well-wrung out tea towel.
• Use the butter to brush on the phyllo dough (bits of the onion and garlic can be included). Sprinkle with bread crumbs in every other layer of phyllo. Continue brushing all sheets with butter, stacking them and crumbing every other layer. Reserve a bit of the cheese and bread crumbs to sprinkle on the completed strudel.
• Toss the asparagus into the pan with the butter just to pick up some flavor. Take the asparagus and divide in 2 even batches. Lay batches end to end in the lower third of the phyllo square. A border of about 1 1/2-2" should remain on either side of the asparagus.
• Begin rolling the strudel by first folding the borders over the ends of the bunches. This will create a "closed" end to your strudel. Brush the borders with butter to ensure they don't break and to seal them. Carefully roll the strudel, making sure the ends stay closed. Be careful not to tear the phyllo.
• Brush the strudel with butter and sprinkle with cheese and bread crumbs.
• Transfer the completed strudel to a jellyroll pan with the parchment paper.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until browned.
• Regarding asparagus -- If they are in season and you'd like to use fresh, you can roast or saute them. Make sure they are cooled before proceeding with assembly.

ASPARAGUS GRUYERE TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. On a floured surface, roll the puff pastry into a 16-by-10-inch rectangle. Trim uneven edges. Place pastry on a baking sheet. With a sharp knife, lightly score pastry dough 1 inch in from the edges to mark a rectangle. Using a fork, pierce dough inside the markings at 1/2-inch intervals. Bake until golden, about 15 minutes.
• Remove pastry shell from oven, and sprinkle with Gruyere. Trim the bottoms of the asparagus spears to fit crosswise inside the tart shell; arrange in a single layer over Gruyere, alternating ends and tips. Brush with oil, and season with salt and pepper. Bake until spears are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.