In general, eating raw vegetables are supposed to be good for your health. Less cook with heat, better for your health. In that context, have you eaten asparagus raw? Yes, I have now. In my new favourite version, asparagus kimchi!
My usual favourite way of eating asparagus was just par boiling them and eat them without any salad dressing at all. I am not a fan of salad dressing. I like asparagus with a hint of earthy flavour as it is a new shoot(spear) which comes out from soil directly.
A couple of weeks ago, when I went to a wholesale market, there were lots of British asparagus boxes filed up at the corner. It means it was asparagus season in England. I bought a box of asparagus as I was always tempted with seasonal stuff. When I came home with the box of asparagus, I realised that there were quite many spears in the box. Then I thought why not making them into kimchi! Kimchi is always a good way to preserve surplus vegetable. I never made asparagus kimchi before so why not? I’ve made this asparagus kimchi with a little bit of basic kimchi seasoning and kept this kimchi in the other kimchi brine. Even though asparagus was very fresh, they don’t seem to contain lots of water in them. If you use these kinds of vegetables(asparagus, broccoli, Brussel sprout etc…) for kimchi, it would be nice to add extra kimchi brine into it. Anyway, I made it and forgot about it for a week so. When I tasted one spear after one week, I was quite surprised to taste still fresh asparagus’ earthy flavour but definitely kimchi flavour in it, too. This will be another new way of eating asparagus for me!
*If you’d like to find out more information about British asparagus, have a look at this site which I’ve just found out. Useful information here, too. (http://britishasparagus.com)
TIME FOR KIMCHI 