This snow peas salad takes about 5 minutes to prepare and requires only a few ingredients but tastes amazing! The sweet peas with some lemon zest and chili are a wonderful combination!
I really love snow peas, in general any type. They are just so sweet! I remember when I was small it was my favorite snack from my grandparents’ garden. We were sitting next to each other on a small stool, they were shelling the peas for lunch and I was eating them all. They must have been so happy! 😀
This hasn’t really changed, most of the time when I get my hands on fresh peas I still eat them right away as a snack, so I rarely make any dish with them. But now I was strong, and kept some for this delicious salad. I definitely didn’t regret it, this salad tastes so good, so fresh!
Simple Snow Peas Salad
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 2 cups of snow peas
- half of a cucumber
- 2 cups of rocket salad
- 1/2 cup of roasted almonds
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lemon
- chili, salt, pepper
Instructions
- Slice cucumber, cut snow peas thinly lengthways and chop almonds roughly. Add to a bowl with the rocket.
- Make a dressing with olive oil, juice of a lemon and some salt and pepper. Pour over the salad and mix well together.
- Sprinkle some chili on top and the zest of a lemon. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Category: Salad
I love eating snow peas as a snack. This salad is beautiful and so fresh and healthy Evi!
Thanks, Linda! Peas are such amazing snacks, I’m thinking about planting some this year…although I don’t know how difficult is that…
I love a simple and quick salad like this! It also looks delicious! I can’t remember the last time I cooked with snow peas and I’m trying to figure out why! They look like they would give such a great crunch to this salad and I love the lemon 🙂
Thanks, Izzy! I also cook rarely with snow peas, they don’t really sell them here or they cost horrible expensive. I guess because they don’t grow them here 🙁
This salad just looks so incredibly fresh, healthy and delicious. It would make a perfect light dinner or lunch – thanks for the recipe!
Thank you, Thalia 🙂
Beautiful pictures!
Thank you, Dani!
This salad looks so fresh! I love the green color! Beautiful photography!
Thanks, Reiko!
The salad looks great!
It has asparagus which isn’t mentioned in the recipe though
Hi!
No, there’s no asparagus in this recipe (or on the pictures) 😉
Hát ez valami meseszép, Évi! Teljesen kész vagyok ettől a blogtól!
Nagyon örülök, ha tetszik!! 🙂 ♥
Oh, this salad looks wonderful. I love snow peas.
And your photos in this post! Oh my… They are amazing!
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Evi, your photographs! My goodness, stunning! They’re sharp, the contrasting colors are beautiful, the light is soft and airy! Well done! And this salad…. well, I can’t wait for snow peas to come in season here. They are one of my most favorite veggies, yet their season is way too short. When we had our garden we grew tons of snow peas, because we love them so much… we’d sit, come harvest time, and eat and eat and eat…. they are best fresh, for sure, so I can see why you’d much on them while picking! Thank you for this fresh recipe! Saved for Spring!
Thank you so much for the nice words, Traci 🙂
Ah, you had snow peas in your garden?? How cool! Just sitting there and eating them, wow! I am planning on planting some this year, although I don’t have a garden, so I don’t know yet how….but I’m crazy about getting some fresh peas!!
I love that you’ve julienned the snow peas. They’re beautiful!
Snow pea season is just around the corner and I’ll be trying this as soon as they arrive in the local gardens. 🙂
Thanks, Kristen!
The season here starts usually also later, but now I was nasty and couldn’t wait and had to get some earlier 🙂
What is rocket? Just discovered you, and am so excited with your recipes! The kind of food I like to eat!
Hi Jane.
Rocket is arugula or rucola. As far as I know the word ‘rocket’ is mainly used in british english. When I first came across this salad they said it’s rocket, so I say rocket nowadays still 🙂
This was fantastic! The portion size is larger than your photo but that’s a good thing 🙂
Thanks so much!!
I’m so glad you liked it, Alex!
If I remember correctly that was the only clean plate I had that day, that’s why the small portion. But I ate 3 plates 😀
OMG this is so delicious — and so different — and so easy. I just discovered this recipe (it’s 5/31/2020) but will surely be adding it to my repertoire of salads that are guaranteed to please for both everyday and special occasions.
Hi Harold, I am so glad to hear you liked the salad 🙂
Love this salad so much. Its my “go-to” summer salad 🥗
I’m glad you like it 🙂
What kind of chili are you referring to? Chili powder? What variety? Chopped chilis? What heat?
Thank you.
Hi Donna,
You can use fresh, chopped chilli, but chili powder or flakes work well too. I’d say use whatever you like here, and whatever heat you enjoy. 😊
I’ve made this salad with fresh Thai chili (bird’s eye), as well as with habanero, both are great. But usually I just use chili flakes. This is the brand I get here in Germany, unfortunately I don’t know what variety it is.