Spring salad

Name: Spring salad
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 7-8 asparagus spears - snap the woody bit off the end if necessary; 100 g sugar snap peas - i chopped these in half; 80-100 g peas; Handful pumpkin seeds; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp maple syrup or runny honey; Zest of 1 big lemon; Juice of that lemon; 1-2 tbsp chopped fresh mint leaves; Generous pinch each of salt and black pepper

Alessandra @alessa

Crunchy green salad with beautiful fresh flavours. Perfect on its own - also good mixed with a grain or pasta, or stacked in a Buddha bowl or alongside some salmon or even with a runny poached egg on top 😋
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Ingredients

20 mins

2 servings

7-8asparagus spears - snap the woody bit off the end if necessary
100 gsugar snap peas - i chopped these in half
80-100 gpeas
Handfulpumpkin seeds
Dressing
1 tbspolive oil
1 tspmaple syrup or runny honey
Zest of 1 big lemon
Juice of that lemon
1-2 tbspchopped fresh mint leaves
Generous pinch each of salt and black pepper

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Steps

20 mins

1

Toast the pumpkin seeds: heat a dry shallow pan on a medium heat; add the seeds and toast for 5-10 mins (stir them every now and then) until they are golden/ start to get fragrant.
2

I try and use as few pots as possible 😁. So have one pot with some generously salted water and bring to the boil. Put the asparagus in a steamer on top of the pan. It will take 5-10 mins to become tender depending on its thickness. ng the new veg to the water. )
3

So after about 3-5 mins, add the sugar snaps to the boiling water. Then after another 2 mins, add the peas. (Putting the steamer back on in between adding the sugarsnaps and peas.) After maximum 1 min for the peas, drain the sugarsnaps and peas.
4

Put them in a bowl of cold water. Put the asparagus in there too. This means they keep their colour and crunch. Cut the asparagus into smaller pieces - i do this with scissors... just lift each spear out of the water, cut into 3-4 pieces and put them back in the water.
5

For the dressing: mix it all together. Taste and tweak the balance according to your taste.
6

To serve, stir the dressing through the greens. Sprinkle generously with pumpkin seeds. If you have a spring onion, chop that on top too. I add some more lemon zest 🍋 and mint leaves too. Enjoy 😋