Burrata with Speck, English Peas, and Parmigiano-Reggiano
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/3 cup shelled fresh English peas (about 20 pods, or 2 1/2 pounds unshelled peas)
- 20 sugar snap peas
- 20 medium mint leaves, stacked and very thinly sliced lengthwise
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, plus a wedge for grating an additional 1/4 cup
- 2 tablespoons finishing-quality extra-virgin olive oil
- 16 thin slices of speck (about 2 ounces) or prosciutto (about 4 ounces)
- 8 ounces burrata
- Fill a large saucepan with water, salt the water to taste like the ocean, adding approximately 1 tablespoon of salt to each quart of water, and bring it to a boil over high heat.
- Fill a bowl with ice water and line a plate or small bowl with paper towels.
- Place a wire strainer in the sink.
- Add the Engllish peas to the boiling water and cook them for about 1 1/2 minutes, until they turn bright green but are still crunchy.
- Quickly drain the peas in the wire strainer and plunge them, still in the strainer, in the ice water to cool completely, about 1 minute.
- Transfer them to the paper towels to drain.
- Pull the strings off the sugar snap peas, discard, and slice the sugar snap peas 1/8 inch thin on such an extreme bias that you are almost slicing them lengthwise.
- Put the peas, sugar snap peas, and mint in a medium bowl.
- Sprinkle with the grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, season with salt and pepper, drizzle with the olive oil, and toss to combine the ingredients and coat the vegetables with the seasonings.
- Drape four slices of speck in a rosette-like pattern on each of four salad plates, dropping the slices onto the plate so they stand up slightly rather than placing the slices flat against the plate.
- Cut the burrata into four equal segments and nestle one segment in the center of each rosette.
- Pile the dressed peas on top of the burrata, allowing a bit to fall onto the speck below, and use a microplane or another fine grater to grate a light layer of Parmigiano-Reggiano over each plate, and serve.
- Pinot Bianco (Alto Adige)
kosher salt, english peas, sugar, mint, finishingquality, thin, burrata
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/burrata-with-speck-english-peas-and-parmigiano-reggiano-393621 (may not work)