Sugar Snap Pea Salad
- Salt and black pepper
- 1/2 pound sugar snap peas, trimmed
- 1 teaspoon minced green garlic or 1/2 teaspoon minced regular garlic
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, more for drizzling
- 4 ounces pea shoots, ends trimmed, or use baby arugula or microgreens
- 10 ounces ripe, runny Camembert (or another washed- rind cheese such as Epoisses or vacherin)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped chervil or chives
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
- Have ready a bowl of well-salted ice water.
- Drop peas into boiling water and cook until crisp-tender, about 1 minute; use a slotted spoon to transfer peas to ice water to cool completely.
- Drain well and pat dry with a towel.
- In a small bowl, whisk together garlic and lemon juice.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Whisk in oil.
- Add pea shoots or arugula and toss to coat.
- Scoop out runny cheese from inside rind and spoon onto four small plates, smoothing the cheese to cover most of the plate.
- Scatter snap peas on top of cheese.
- Drizzle with olive oil.
- Mound greens over peas.
- Sprinkle with chervil or chives and serve.
salt, sugar, green garlic, lemon juice, extravirgin olive oil, shoots, camembert, chervil
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016395 (may not work)