Present your guests with a beautifully arranged appetizer!
If you are looking for an elegant appetizer in a glass, combine fruit, vegetables, and cheese as a well-presented appetizer with that special touch your guests will love. Preparing it is only a matter of leaving the pears and asparagus on the griddle for a few minutes. The blue cheese gives the entire appetizer an incredible flavor. With just the right amount of cheese, this appetizer will be unforgettably delicious.
Grilled Asparagus & Pears with Blue Cheese Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 pears cored and sliced
- 8 asparagus spears hard ends discarded
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 ounces blue cheese crumbled
- 1 ounce butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg grated
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Over low heat, in a small saucepan, melt the butter.
- When the butter has melted, add the flour and mix until you create a roux.
- Add the milk slowly, mixing the roux continuously.
- When the sauce has thickened, add the salt, nutmeg and 2 ounces of the blue cheese. Mix then turn off the fire immediately. If the sauce thickened too much before serving, thin it out by adding more milk.
- On a griddle, grill the asparagus and the pears.
- To serve, get a small glass, spoon some blue cheese sauce the add some pears and asparagus. Garnish with the remaining crumbled blue cheese.
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