This Asparagus Stir Fry is a quick, flavorful dish that lets garlic and dried red chilies take the lead. Though asparagus is often grilled or roasted, stir-frying brings out a fresh, vibrant taste with just a few ingredients. Simple, delicious, and perfect as a side dish, it's one to add to your regular rotation!
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Why will you love this?
- Effortless and quick: This is one of the easiest side dishes you can whip up, like the olan, phiki dal, beet pachadi, cabbage thoran, or long green beans stir fry, perfect for busy weeknights or last-minute meals.
- Minimal ingredients: Just a handful of pantry staples, not complicated, not fancy
- Versatile pairing: It complements almost anything, from rice, nei choru, and roti to grilled meats, fish like tilapia pan fried, and hearty mains, or even with the best vegetarian pizza.
- Flavorful and nourishing: Garlicky, delicious, and packed with the natural goodness of asparagus.
Ingredients needed:
- Asparagus that is cleaned and cut into the desired length
- Chopped garlic and onions, Cumin, Dried red chillies
- Pantry staples: Avocado oil, turmeric, Salt as required
How to make Asparagus Stir Fry?
Have your cleaned, chopped veggies and asparagus ready, then heat a little oil and splutter some cumin.
- Step 1: Chop all the veggies
- Step 2: In a pan, heat oil and splutter cumin seeds.
Add chopped garlic, dried red chilies, and onions. Add a touch of turmeric and salt, then cook on a low flame, covered, until perfectly done.
- Step 3: Add red chilies and chopped garlic, sautee for a bit, then add chopped onions.
- Step 4: Add turmeric and salt.
If you prefer a bit of crunch, switch off the heat a little earlier.
- Step 5: Add the asparagus and sautee well, cover and cook on a low flame.
- Step 6: After about 8 to 10 minutes, it should be cooked and ready.
Once done, serve it into a serving bowl and enjoy!
Useful Tips
- There's an interesting fact about cleaning the asparagus. It has a hard stalk at the end, and many prefer to cut off an inch below before cooking. It is edible, but it is removed to avoid the chewy taste. One can even peel off the skin at the bottom.
- Be sure to trim or peel the tough ends for the best texture. I like to cut the spears into two-inch pieces for easy cooking.
- You can also stop the cooking process earlier if you like a little crunch in your asparagus.
- You can make it even simpler by just sauteeing garlic and red chilies, and asparagus in a little oil, which gets done in no time
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Asparagus Stir fry
A delicious stir fry made with asparagus , garlic and dry red chillies
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Servings: 4
Calories: 34kcal
Ingredients
- 1 bunch asparagus
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 red chillies dry
- 1 tsp cumin
- ½ onion diced
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Clean the asparagus by cutting 1 inch from the bottom and peeling off any hard skin
- cut into long pieces about 2 inches long
- Take a pan with a little vegetable oil
- Add cumin seeds
- Add onions , garlic and dry red chillies and sautee
- Add turmeric powder and then the asparagus
- Add salt and stir fry
- Cover with a lid and cook till done. Take care not to overcook
- Asparagus stir fry is ready to be served
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Notes
- There's an interesting fact about cleaning the asparagus. It has a hard stalk at the end, and many prefer to cut off an inch below before cooking. It is edible, but it is removed to avoid the chewy taste. One can even peel off the skin at the bottom.
- Be sure to trim or peel the tough ends for the best texture. I like to cut the spears into two-inch pieces for easy cooking.
- You can also stop the cooking process earlier if you like a little crunch in your asparagus.
- You can make it even simpler by just sauteeing garlic and red chilies, and asparagus in a little oil, which gets done in no time
Nutrition
Serving: 20g | Calories: 34kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 0.3g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 585mg | Potassium: 269mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 857IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 3mg
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Delicious. Perfect for everyday consumption.
Yes Vidya totally agree it's delicious and simple to make as well ! Thank you!
Beautiful dish. This is one of my favorite vegetables and as it comes in during the spring, I start to look for different recipes! Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh! wonderful! so happy to hear that , it is one of my favorite vegetables as well. This is a good recipe for a change and hope you like it.Thank you for stopping by!
My pleasure!
it seems yammi and want to try once.
Thanks so much!
I have been waiting to try asparagus for so long, your dish looks delish!
Thanks a lot!
I love asparagus and this looks yummy.
Thanks a lot Jyoti!
So delicious!! Perfect with hot Jasmin rice.!!! Sometimes, I like to add snap peas to it...
oh yes! that's my favorite combination , Thank you so much for stopping by!
I love asparagus! Just picked my first garden batch of the year and it was a huge batch! I love that you put red chili’s in your recipe. I never thought about putting some heat into asparagus! Great idea!
wow that's so nice to have home grown asparagus, it must taste even better, I just put one or two dried chillies just for a little spice!
Great idea!!!Thank you!
Yum, love asparagus. X
Thank you Lorelle!
This is really interesting Nisha...not yet tried Asparagus till now...need to try sometime☺
Great Jyo do try it when you get a chance, you will love it! Thank you !
Sounds yummy !! Will try this soon !
Thanks Smitha, do try it out am sure you will love it!
This sounds tasty . I never think of asparagus with my stir-fry. Instead, I would normally put broccoli, carrots and celery. I'll try it!
Yes that's right Christy , I guess it's not a regular veggie for a stir-fry. I also recently got this recipe and have ever since been making it this way!
I've actually only ever tried asparagus once that I can remember - will have to add it to my shopping list as the stir fry looks lush! 🙂
Thank you so much, I am happy the pictures inspire you to try again, awesome!
Wow, this looks yum! 🙂
(Gotta try this!!)
Hope you try it, simple to make and tastes awesome! Thank you so much!
Will do for sure! Thanks much! 🙂
Hey! Hope you are doing great! I've nominated you for the This Or That Tag. Would love for you to participate. (PS - No compulsion tho!) 🙂
Thank you so much Richa for tagging me, appreciate it!
My pleasure!💕
Nice share... I like asparagus
Thank you Ramya, glad you like this vegetable as well!
So delicious
Thank you !
Yes!