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Can be made in advance. You can wrap it and keep refrigerated until you cook or you cook it and keep in a room temperature for an hour or so before serving.
Bacon Wrapped Asparagus with Cilantro Aioli.
Difficulty: Easy, QuickCan be made in advance. You can wrap it and keep refrigerated until you cook or you cook it and keep in a room temperature for an hour or so before serving.
Ingredients
1 lb. of asparagus
1 lb. of thin sliced bacon
Drizzle of olive oil
Freshly cracked black pepper to taste
Dash of cayenne paper
1-2 tbsp. of balsamic vinegar
- For Cilantro aioli
1 cup of mayo
1 lime zest and juice
1 cup of chopped cilantro
1 garlic clove
Freshly cracked black pepper
A pinch of cayenne pepper
Let’s make it
- Preheat the oven to 425 F
- Wash asparagus and dry well.
- Cut the asparagus tuff part off.
- Wrap the asparagus with bacon slice. If the asparagus is short you might need only half of bacon slice for each asparagus.
- Place on the baking tray leaving space between them. Drizzle the asparagus top tips with a little bit of olive oil, sprinkle with some black and cayenne pepper, drizzle balsamic vinegar and bake it for 20-25 min until bacon gets browned.
- Put in a blender all the ingredients for aioli and blend it until it’s smooth.
- Serve with the aioli or some tahini sauce.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Don’t nee to use any salt, because bacon is salty.
