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This recipe originated in the 2002 Light and Tasty yearbook. 

1 lb of fresh asparagus, trimmed, and cut into 1" pieces.
1/3 cup of chopped onion
1 garlic clove
1/3 cup chopped seeded tomato
2 tablespoons of FF or LDL mayo
1 tablespoons of lemon juice
1/2 salt
3/4 teaspoon of fresh minced cilantro
1/4 teaspoon of little pinky sized chunk of canned roasted ancho chili in sauce (I freeze the rest in a baggie for heat on demand).


Cook the asparagus in 1/2 inch of water on stove-top or microwave until tender.
Place in blender with onion, garlic and ancho chile, and blend until smooth.

Combine mayo, tomato, lemon juice, salt, cilantro in a bowl, blend in the asparagus mix.  Taste, if more heat needed add a little more ancho chile sauce.

Serve with crudites (raw vegetables).

Hi Valia,

thats sounds yummi. I just have one question.:

Do you use green or white asparagus ?

Chris

WOW..sounds great and so many less calories than if made with avocado! 

Thanks for this great idea...and i just love asparagus...

Now i'm wondering how it would taste to combine the asparagus with hearts of artichoke (but not with ones packed in oil)...

Yummy...

margo

Chris - the green ones, I am English, but am not fond of the European method of blanching asparagus stems...
Margo - that sounds like a wonderful addition to this recipe.  One of my favorite dips before LDL was crab and artichoke dip made with cream cheese...  I could eat a whole pot of it... made spicy with a little Franks hot sauce, cream cheese, garlic and spices then adding the crab and artichoke hearts (as you said, not the ones in oil)  Now if I could come up with something that tasted as good, was not dairy, and low fat!!!!!

Hi again...

i was thinking about this and i think that if you mushed up the artichoke hearts sufficiently, they could satisfy the cheesiness you're looking for....nothing wrong with some hot sauce and plenty of garlic....it sounds wonderful and i'm going to try it and let you know how it comes out!

margo

Hi:

You could blend some white beans (rinsed and drained first) with a little fat free chicken stock, then add to the beans in a bowl chopped artichoke hearts, crab, hot sauce, garlic, and spice.  There was an artichoke dip I liked that had mayo, sour cream, artichoke, garlic, parmesan, and green chiles and I swapped out the mayo for white beans, added a little ff sour cream for tang, then added the artichokes, garlic, green chiles, and a little low fat parmesan.  Was pretty good.

Wow, that is a great idea, and I will definitely try it.  I do miss my cream cheese recipes, but not actually craving anything..