Sugar Snap Salad

Crisp blanched sugar snap peas over bibb lettuce in a shallot-sherry vinaigrette, brightened with fresh basil and Italian flat-leaf parsley.

AmericanVegetarianIntermediate15 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 4 cup bibb lettuce, torn
  • 4 cup sugar snap peas, strings removed
  • 3 tbsp minced shallots
  • 4 tsp sherry vinegar
  • 7 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 0.5 cup roughly chopped fresh basil
  • 3 tbsp chopped Italian flat-leaf parsley
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 0.3 tsp black pepper

Instructions

  1. 1

    Blanch sugar snap peas in boiling water about 3 minutes until bright green but still crunchy; immediately plunge into ice water to stop cooking. Drain.

  2. 2

    Whisk together shallots, sherry vinegar, salt, pepper, and olive oil to make the vinaigrette.

  3. 3

    Arrange lettuce on plates. Top with peas, drizzle with vinaigrette, and scatter basil and parsley over the top.

Tags

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