Petits Pois à la Française

Name: Petits Pois à la Française
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 50 g/2 oz butter; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; freshly ground black pepper; 1 kg/2 lb shelled fresh peas; 1 large mild onion, very finely sliced; 1 medium lettuce, finely shredded; 4 or 5 tablespoons water; large sprig of mint; 2 or 3 parsley stalks

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Here is the classic Petits Pois à la Française. It doesn’t look quite as glamorous as the second recipe, but it tastes too good for glamour to matter.

Ingredients

large sprig of mint
2 or 3 parsley stalks
1 kg/2

Europe
France
Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Tie the herbs together with a piece of string and put them in the bottom of a shallow ovenproof dish, large enough to hold the other ingredients. Put everything together into this and cover with greaseproof paper or foil. Put into a moderate oven (180°C, 350°F, Gas Mark 4) for 1½-2 hours, or until the peas are nearly tender. Remove the herbs before serving.

If you want to thicken the li