This green pea salad features a mix of shelled peas and thinly sliced, raw snap peas or snow peas. It’s so bright, so crunchy, and so fresh! The salad is a perfect accompaniment to any springtime meal and a perfect means of adding more green color to your table.

Both sugar snap peas and snow peas can be used in this dish. The peas are included raw and thinly sliced.

The second type of pea that you’ll use are sugar snap peas or snow peas.

These aren’t the same vegetable, but they can be used interchangeably in the pea salad. So long as you take care to slice them super thinly, both types of peas will work.

Speaking of the slicing, here’s a little more detail on how the salad comes together.

How to make a super fresh green pea salad
First, what makes this salad so fresh"

I think it’s the fact that the snap or snow peas?and you can use either of these, by the way?are raw. In their raw state, they taste sweet and verdant.

In the meantime, the shelling peas are cooked. The first step in preparing the salad is to steam, boil, or microwave them until they’re bright green, sweet, and tender.

Crunchy snap peas + sweet, tender green peas = a bright, sweet, fresh effect. It’s springtime in a bowl, essentially.

It’s important to slice both the snap or snow peas and the spinach in this salad very, very thinly. I know that this step is time-consuming, but trust me! Texture is key in this salad.

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