Recipe for romaine lettuce with peas and parsley
Delicious, crispy, and exciting salads are, as you know, my passion! And I am constantly experimenting with new variations.
This time, it turned into a truly delightful and super simple version with Romaine lettuce, peas, parsley, and a delicious homemade crème fraîche dressing.
The fantastic thing about salads is that they don’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. They just need to be fresh and crispy, and they should ideally have a bit of sour, salty, and sweet flavors to achieve good depth.
Romaine lettuce has a lovely mild, delicate lettuce flavor, so the sweet peas, aromatic parsley, and slightly tangy crème fraîche dressing work really well together here.
As for crispiness, Romaine lettuce is great for salads with dressing because it doesn’t get soggy like iceberg lettuce might.
I would say that this salad is best served as a side dish rather than as a full meal on its own. However, if you add some chicken, it can certainly work as a good, filling lunch too!
Ingredients
Salad
- 2 Romaine Lettuce
- 130 gram Peas fresh, shelled
- Parsley a handful
Dressing
- 150 gram Sour Cream 0.09
- 30 gram Lemon Juice
- 2.3 gram Paprika
- 1 pinch Cayenne Pepper
- Salt to taste
- Pepper ground - to taste
Instructions
- First, rinse all the vegetables.
- Remove all the leaves from the romaine lettuce.
- Find a small bowl.
- Put all the ingredients for the dressing in the bowl.
- Mix the dressing well.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Find a larger bowl, platter, or large deep plate.
- First, layer half of the romaine lettuce.
- Put half of the peas on top of the romaine lettuce.
- Add half of the dressing on top.
- Repeat by layering the remaining half of the romaine lettuce, followed by the rest of the peas.
- Finish with the remaining dressing and garnish with parsley. Enjoy your meal!
