- 1/4 cup golden raisins
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar, warmed
- 2 tablespoons minced shallot
- 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 kilos contemporary summer season peas, comparable to sugar snaps, snow peas, shelling peas, and/or favas
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon easy dijon mustard (non-compulsory)
- 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
- Crimson pepper flakes and freshly floor black pepper, to style
- 1/2 cup toasted almonds (I’m utilizing marcona), roughly chopped
- 2 to three ounces sliced or crumbled ricotta salata cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped contemporary mint
[Note: It is completely up to you whether you wish to cook sugar snaps and/or snow peas; both are delicious raw. For this salad, I cook the sugar snaps for 30 seconds to 1 minute but leave the snow peas raw.]
Prepare dinner your peas: Convey a medium pot of salted water to a boil. Put together a big bowl of ice water. If utilizing favas or shelling peas, take away them from and discard their pods. Prepare dinner favas within the water for 3 minutes; shelling peas for 1 minute, and sugar snaps and/or snow peas for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Scoop every out instantly with a slotted spoon and drop within the ice bathtub. For those who select to not cook dinner your sugar snaps or snow peas, skip the pot and put them instantly in ice water for 10 minutes for one of the best juicy crunch.
One peas are absolutely chilly, drain and pat dry on a big towel. For those who’ve used favas, they’ve one last step of preparation: You’ll have to make a small slit with a pointy paring knife within the outer gentle inexperienced pod in order that the internal darkish inexperienced satisfying a part of the fava can slip out.
End the dressing: Add dijon, if utilizing, 3 tablespoons olive oil, salt (about 1/2 teaspoon Diamond kosher), freshly floor black pepper, and pink pepper flakes to dressing and whisk to mix, tasting for seasoning and adjusting as wanted. For those who’d prefer it much less kicky, add remaining tablespoon olive oil.
Assemble and end: Switch peas to a bowl and toss with dressing to style; you might not want all of it. Add extra seasoning, if wanted. Add almonds, cheese, and mint and toss as soon as once more. Eat immediately.
Do forward: Greens and dressing may be ready and saved cool, individually, as much as a day upfront. Combine solely earlier than serving.
