Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- To make brown butter, melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Skim off the white foam as it rises to the top.
- Continue cooking until the butter is medium brown and smells like roasted nuts.
- Snap the ends from the asparagus they'll break at the point of tenderness.
- Or slice the ends off closer to the root end and peel spears with a swivel-bladed vegetable peeler.
- Rinse, then soak for a few minutes in a couple of changes of cold, lightly salted water.
- Agitate lightly to release grit that may be trapped.
- Rinse well again and pat with paper towels.
- Brush a shallow baking dish or jelly-roll pan large enough to hold the asparagus in a single layer with a film of brown butter.
- Spread asparagus in dish and brush with the remaining butter.
- Roast until tender, about 15 minutes.
- Shave or grate the cheese over the asparagus, sprinkle with pepper and serve warm.