Рецепт Peas With Bacon And Lettuce

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Инструкции
- Remove the butter from the refrigerator and allow it to soften slightly.
- Shell the peas and place them in a Dutch oven.
- Trim the green tops from the onions, leaving the bulb and about 1 inch of the stem. Peel and chop the carrot.
- Rinse and dry the lettuce hearts. Cut them into large strips.
- Add in the onions, carrot, and lettuce to the pan with the peas. Sprinkle with the sugar and season with salt and pepper. Mix.
- Cut the butter into small pcs and sprinkle proportionately over peas. Mix with your hands to coat the peas and lettuce with the softened butter. Add in thyme.
- Cover the pan and place over medium heat for about 20 min.
- Meanwhile, cut the bacon into small lardons (strips of fat) about 1- by 1/4-inch, removing any rind. Fill a small saucepan with water, bring to a boil and blanch the bacon for about 1 minute. Drain.
- When the peas have cooked, add in the blanched bacon and toss to mix thoroughly. The lettuce leaves will have totally "melted," giving a velvety sweetness to the peas.
- This recipe serves 4.
- Comments: Extremely popular during the seventeenth century, sweet peas are still one of the jewels of Ile-de-France gardens. Those from Saint-Germain were once so famous which this village on the outskirts of Paris gave its name to many different recipes which featured peas. This dish is a flavorful combination of two different classics; petits pois a la bonne femme (prepared with chunks of bacon), and a la francaise (with hearts of lettuce).