The sweetness of the peas is smartened up by the pepperiness of the radishes and the cress; and the wake-you-upness of the spring onions; and the sharpness of the lemon salt (add a little lemon zest if you don’t have any just to hand.

Recipe for peppery pea salad

Serves 10

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg/3 lb petits pois or ordinary frozen peas
• 150g/5 oz radishes, thinly sliced
• 5 spring onions – thinly sliced – include about two inches of green
• 13 tbsp crème fraiche
• 3 tbsp full milk
• 3 punnets cress, snipped away from the base it’s growing on
• Indonesian long pepper
• pinch of lemon salt

Method

1. allow the peas to defrost
2. mix the whole lot together