Minty Sugar Snap Pea Salad

Name: Minty Sugar Snap Pea Salad
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds, sugar snap peas, stems snapped off and strings removed; , Salt and pepper; 1/4 cup, finely chopped fresh mint leaves; 1 small, shallot, minced; 1 teaspoon, grated zest plus 1 tablespoon juice from 1 lemon; 1 teaspoon, Dijon mustard; 1 teaspoon, honey; 3 tablespoons, extra virgin olive oil; 1/4 cup, crumbled goat cheese

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2009

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Good technique and a few surprise ingredients transform mint and peas into a sophisticated salad.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME45 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To achieve emerald green, crisp-tender snap peas in our Minty Sugar Snap Pea Salad, we blanched them in well-seasoned boiling water, then plunged them into ice water to stop the pods from cooking further and to lock in their texture, flavor...

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