Green-Pea Salad
A simple salad featuring peas, a cream dressing, served in lettuce nests, and garnished with beets.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Peas (fresh or frozen) (Quantity estimated (not specified in original recipe))
- 1/2 cup Cream dressing (e.g., mayonnaise-based) (Quantity estimated (not specified in original recipe))
- 8 leaves Lettuce leaves (Quantity estimated (not specified in original recipe))
- 2 tablespoons Chopped beets (Quantity estimated (not specified in original recipe))
- 1 piece Pickled beets or pimentos (for garnish) (Quantity estimated (not specified in original recipe))
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- 2Arrange lettuce leaves in nests on plates. Spoon the pea salad into the lettuce nests. Garnish the top of each nest with a little chopped beet, or a fanciful figure cut from a pickled beet or pimento.
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