A dish for early summer which uses fine pasta and fresh young peas. The recipe is from the classic cookbook ” Honey from a Weed” by Patience Gray.
Ingredients
- 400 g spaghettini
- 1 kg new peas
- 100 g fresh butter
- 1 sweet white onion finely chopped
- salt
- mint leaves
- curls of butter
Servings:
Instructions
- Shell the peas and blanch them in boiling water for 2 minutes. Strain, and reserve their liquor. Melt the butter slowly in a pan, then put in the chopped onion. Simmer for 5 minutes, then put in the peas, salt, mint leaves, and a very little of the pea liquor.
- Boil the spaghettini rapidly in plenty of salted water for 4 or 5 minutes, strain and put into deep soup plates. Spoon the peas into the centre of the pasta on each plate, with some of the sauce, and crown each centre with a curl of butter. No parmesan with this.
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