Roasted Asparagus with Pine Nuts Recipe

Roasted Asparagus with Pine Nuts

• Cook
  15 m
• Ready In
  20 m

Recipe By: Marcy Goldman

“Roasting is one of the easiest and tastiest ways to cook asparagus. Here we give it an extra flourish with a quick sauce of reduced balsamic vinegar and a sprinkling of toasted pine nuts.”

Ingredients

• • 2 tablespoons pine nuts
  • 1½ pounds asparagus
  • 1 large shallot, thinly sliced
  • 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
• • ¼ teaspoon salt, divided
  • ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
  • Freshly ground pepper, to taste

Directions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread pine nuts in a small baking pan and toast in the oven
• 2 until golden and fragrant, 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl to cool.
• 3 Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees . Snap off the tough ends of asparagus. Toss the asparagus with shallot, oil, ⅛ teaspoon salt and pepper. Spread in a single layer on a large baking sheet with sides. Roast, turning twice, until the asparagus is tender and browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
• 4 Meanwhile, bring vinegar and the remaining ⅛ teaspoon salt to a simmer in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, swirling the pan occasionally, until slightly syrupy and reduced to 1 tablespoon, about 5 minutes. To serve, toss the asparagus with the reduced vinegar and sprinkle with the pine nuts.