Romaine Salad with Spring Vegetables & Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland

By Tanya Holland

Published 2014

  • About

Romaine demands a dressing that clings. Like iceberg, it contains a lot of water and needs a flavorful dressing to boost its appeal. This dressing is subtle, but nicely balanced with the herbs and cucumber flavors. Buttermilk gives it the creamy quality of a rich dressing without the heaviness of one based on mayonnaise or cream.

Ingredients

Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing

  • 1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded, and grated
  • ¼ cup/60 ml buttermilk

Method

To make the dressing

In a blender or food processor, combine the cucumber, buttermilk, sour cream, shallot, chives, parsley, honey, lemon juice, paprika, and cayenne, and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. (To make ahead, refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week.)

In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the snap peas just until tender, about 5