diff --git a/docs/topics/asyncio.rst b/docs/topics/asyncio.rst
index 7713b1af1..7aa83f505 100644
--- a/docs/topics/asyncio.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/asyncio.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,53 @@ Futures. Scrapy provides two helpers for this:
          into your own code.
 
 
+Async additional requests
+=====================
+
+The spider below shows a single use-case of scraping page and gathering price from a separate url::
+
+
+    class SingleRequestSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+        name = "single"
+        start_urls = ["https://example.org/product"]
+
+        async def parse(self, response, **kwargs):
+            additional_request = scrapy.Request('https://example.org/price')
+            deferred = self.crawler.engine.download(additional_request)
+            additional_response = await maybe_deferred_to_future(deferred)
+            yield {
+                'h1': response.css('h1').get(),
+                'price': additional_response.css('#price').get(),
+            }
+
+
+Spider with gathering batch requests::
+
+    class BatchRequestsSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+        name = "batch"
+        start_urls = ["https://example.com/product"]
+
+        async def parse(self, response, **kwargs):
+            additional_requests = [
+                scrapy.Request("https://example.com/price1"),
+                scrapy.Request("https://example.com/price2"),
+            ]
+            coroutines = []
+            for r in additional_requests:
+                deffered = self.crawler.engine.download(r)
+                coroutines.append(maybe_deferred_to_future(deffered))
+
+            responses = await asyncio.gather(
+                *coroutines, return_exceptions=True
+            )
+            yield {
+                'h1': response.css('h1::text').get(),
+                'price': responses[0].css('.price_color::text').get(),
+                'price2': responses[1].css('.price_color::text').get(),
+            }
+
+
+
 .. _enforce-asyncio-requirement:
 
 Enforcing asyncio as a requirement
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/defer.py b/scrapy/utils/defer.py
index d25ebbdf4..a46274fef 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/defer.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/defer.py
@@ -340,8 +340,9 @@ def deferred_to_future(d: Deferred) -> Future:
         class MySpider(Spider):
             ...
             async def parse(self, response):
-                d = treq.get('https://example.com/additional')
-                additional_response = await deferred_to_future(d)
+                additional_request = scrapy.Request('https://example.org/price')
+                deferred = self.crawler.engine.download(additional_request)
+                additional_response = await deferred_to_future(deferred)
     """
     return d.asFuture(_get_asyncio_event_loop())
 
@@ -368,8 +369,9 @@ def maybe_deferred_to_future(d: Deferred) -> Union[Deferred, Future]:
         class MySpider(Spider):
             ...
             async def parse(self, response):
-                d = treq.get('https://example.com/additional')
-                extra_response = await maybe_deferred_to_future(d)
+                additional_request = scrapy.Request('https://example.org/price')
+                deferred = self.crawler.engine.download(additional_request)
+                additional_response = await maybe_deferred_to_future(deferred)
     """
     if not is_asyncio_reactor_installed():
         return d