New Potatoes and Peas

Name: New Potatoes and Peas
Ingredients: 8 oz (225 g) peas, preferably fresh; 2 oz (50 g) streaky bacon, cut into little pieces; 2 lb (900 g) small new potatoes, washed; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Fresh herbs – mint, parsley or chervil – chopped; ¼ pint (150 ml) cream

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Anyone privileged enough to grow their own potatoes scarcely needs to look further this month since a basket full of freshly dug potatoes can be so easily combined with another ingredient to produce a meal of great simplicity that ranks in the gourmet class.

Ingredients

2 lb (900 g) small new potatoes, washed
2 oz (50

Side dish
June

Method

Steam the washed potatoes until just tender. Meanwhile fry the bacon until crisp. Cook the peas in the cream until just tender and put together with the potatoes. Put in a serving dish, sprinkle with the bacon, fresh herbs and the seasoning.