Oven Roasted Asparagus
Oven Roasted Asparagus is perfectly cooked fresh asparagus. By roasting the asparagus in the oven you end up with crisp tender spears. Exactly what you want! Add a little parmesan cheese or lemon zest to dress it up!!
Servings 5 people
Ingredients
- 1 bunch fresh asparagus
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- large pinch of kosher salt
- *Optional- parmesan cheese or lemon zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400.
- Trim the hard ends from the asparagus and discard. Mom's Tip: An easy way to do this is grab the thicker end of the asparagus, then grab right below the flower end and bend the asparagus until it snaps. That is the exact split between the tender end and the woody end. Now line up all the asparagus and cut the same amount of woody end from the other spears.
- Place the asparagus on a large sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil. Using clean hands, toss the asparagus to coat with the oil.
- Sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, shaking the pan half way thru to rotate the asparagus.
- Remove from the oven and serve immediately.
- Optional-- sprinkle with lemon zest or parmesan cheese.
Notes
This is a recipe for fresh asparagus - do not use frozen asparagus in this recipe.
