Green peas and lettuce

Name: Green peas and lettuce
Yield: To Serve Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 25 g (1 oz) butter; 1 sugar lump; the good outer leaves of a lettuce (save the heart for a salad); the good outer leaves of a lettuce (save the heart for a salad); 900 g (2 lb) or more of fresh green peas in their pods or 350 g (fib) frozen peas; the good outer leaves of a lettuce (save the heart for a salad); salt; 900 g (2 lb) or more of fresh green peas in their pods or 350 g (fib) frozen peas; 6 small silver onions

Preparation info

To Serve
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

The combination of peas, button onions and lettuce gives one of the most delicious traditional summer flavours. The peas will not be their usual bright green but will have a melting succulence.

Ingredients

6 small silver onions
salt
900 g (2 lb) or more of

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish
Summer
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Boil the skinned onions in salted water for 10 minutes to blanch them. Shell the peas if fresh. Wash the lettuce leaves but do not dry them, and use them all except two to line the inside of a small saucepan, just large enough to hold the peas. Put in the peas and onions, the butter and sugar and a little pinch of salt. Put the pan over a very low heat and keep an eye on it as the lettuce leave