Western News: January 28, 2020

14 Tuesday January 28 2020
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Tasty Bites
WESTERN NEWS
Finding your inner peas
Peas are so often overlooked
outside of being boiled and
dumped on a plate of meat
and three vege. This creamy
pea salad is packed full of
flavour with frozen sweet
green peas, a mayonnaise
dressing, crunchy onions,
bacon, and cheddar cheese
Classic Pea Salad
Ingredients
500g bag of frozen peas (not
minted)
⅓ cup mayonnaise
2 tsp granulated sugar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
1 small red onion, chopped
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
100g cooked bacon bits (or 8
rashers, cooked and chopped)
Directions
Remove the frozen peas from
the freezer. Open the bag and
place the peas in a colander.
Allow them to thaw slightly while
you mix up the salad dressing.
In a large bowl mix together
the mayonnaise, sugar, salt, and
pepper with the red onion, cheese,
and bacon bits.
Add the frozen peas to the
salad and stir well, but gently to
combine.
Chill the salad, covered, for at
least one hour before serving.
These pea fritters are easy
to make and can be whipped
up quickly. They taste
delicious both hot and
cold, so any leftovers are
great for the lunchbox
Pea Fritters
Ingredients
400g frozen peas
3 eggs
180g self raising flour
1 spring onion – chopped
55g crumbled feta cheese
2 Tbsp chopped parsley
Directions
Boil the peas for
4min and drain.
Add the flour, eggs,
spring onion and half
of the peas to a food
processor and pulse
until combined.
Fold through the
remaining peas, feta
cheese and parsley.
Fry tablespoons of
the mixture in a little
oil for about 2min
on each side until
golden.