Minted Smashed Peas

Name: Minted Smashed Peas
Ingredients: 2 cups fresh or frozen peas; A good handful of fresh mint leaves; Coarse salt & freshly cracked black pepper; A glug of good quality extra virgin olive oil

4 ingredients

2 steps

Ingredients

2 cups fresh or frozen peas
A good handful of fresh mint leaves
Coarse salt & freshly cracked black pepper
A glug of good quality extra virgin olive oil

Directions

1

Put a pot of water on the stove. Boil. Toss in your peas and mint. Cook for 5 minutes or so, enough to heat them through but you don't really want to go much further than that.
2

Using a slotted spoon, scoop out the peas and mint, and toss them in a food processor. Add a splash of the cooking water, just to get things going. Pulse a few times. Taste and season with about a 1/2 tsp of coarse salt, and a good cracking of black pepper. Add in a glug of EVOO. Pulse again. You don't want them completely mushy.