How to Blanch Asparagus for Cheese Quiche

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Laura Banford. I'm going to tell you the tale of two quiches. Now we are going to blanch our asparagus. What blanching means is you take a green vegetable; take a vegetable like this asparagus and you plunge it into boiling water. You boil it for maybe a minute to two minutes take it out of the boiling water and drop it into ice water. It shocks it and it seals in the green color. If you don't put it into the ice water, the asparagus is very hotter whatever the vegetable is, it will continue to cook internally and it will get mush like gray green color. We want to seal in a really really bright green. So I'm going to take my asparagus, chop the ends off cause these are pretty big pieces of asparagus and the ends are woody. I have water that is starting to simmer here (salted water) I'm going to drop the asparagus in it's going to hit a boil, then it's going to simmer for about a minute then I'm going to take it out. "