Sugar snap salad
Sugar snap salad recipe in the thanksgiving category
Recipe ingredients:
- 4 cups bibb, or butter, lettuce
- 4 cups sugar snap peas, string removed
- 3 tablespoons minced shallots
- 4 teaspoons sherry vinegar
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
- 7 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh basil
- 3 tablespoons chopped italian flat leaf parsley
Recipe method:
- Wash and dry the lettuce and tear into bite-sized pieces.
- Make the vinaigrette by combining the shallots, vinegar, salt, pepper and olive oil and set aside.
- Make an ice bath by filling a large bowl with ice and cold water and set that aside.
- In a large pot, blanch peas in boiling water for about 3 minutes, until peas are bright green and cooked but still crunchy.
- Immediately, drain the peas and plunge into the ice bath.
- Once the peas have cooled and stopped cooking remove them from the ice bath.
- Remove excess water from peas by blotting with a paper towel.
- Up to this point, the salad can be made a day in advance, refrigerated as separate components.
- Use the lettuce to line the bottom of a serving dish and add peas, basil, and parsley to another bowl.
- Add vinaigrette and toss. Put this mixture on top of the lettuce and serve immediately.
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