Pea and Mint Salad

James and I started Hello Fresh. It is one of these companies that you select how many days you want and they provide you with the ingredients and recipes to go with. I was sceptical at first. I thought it was too expensive and we would end up getting a lot of things we didn't like or a lot of the same recipes. I was wrong. So far we have enjoyed the majority of the recipes! We do three days a week and a lot of the time use the previous recipes to fill in the other days.

Here is one of those recipes. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

New Potatoes - 1 pack
Sugar Snap Peas - 1 pack
Cider & Horseradish Mustard - 1 tsp
Lemon - 1/2
Pine Nuts - 25g
Mint - 3tbsp
Salad leaves
Goats Cheese - 1 log.

Method:

1. Bring a large pot of water to the boil with 1/4 tsp of salt. Wash the new potatoes, leave the skin on. Cut them into quarters and cook in the boiling water for 10-15 mins until cooked through. Drain and allow to cool slightly.
2. Bring another pot of water to the boil with some more salt. Add the sugar snap peas and boil rapidly for 2 mins until al dente. Drain them and put them in cold water so they don't overcook.
3. Make a vinaigrette by mixing the wholegrain mustard with the juice from half the lemon and 1/4 tsp of salt and some black pepper. Slowly mix in 2 tbsp of olive oil. You can also add 1/2 tsp of honey or sugar.
4. Toast the pine nuts by putting them in a dry frying pan on medium heat. Keep an eye on it as it can easily burn.
5. Roughly chop half of the mint leaves and leave the rest whole.
6. Mix together your salad leaves, cooked new potatoes, sugar snap peas, whole mint leaves and chopped mint in a large bowl. Pour over as much vinaigrette as you like.
7. Divide the salad between your bowls then crumble over the goat's cheese and sprinkle over the toasted pine nuts.
8. Yum time.

This dish is cool and delicious. You know what is not cool and delicious... Getting stuck in a lift in 32 degree Celsius heat! We were extremely lucky that there was an engineer only 10 minutes away. 35 minutes later two sweaty messes was released! Huzzah!