Pea shoot, lettuce and Cheshire cheese salad

Want something quick and tasty? Try this delicious home-grown early season salad

Pea shoots and other microgreens can give you a harvest in less time than it takes for outdoor crops to germinate. Add an overwintered lettuce and you have a salad that tastes of summer.

Ingredients (serves 2)

2 tbsp sunflower oil

1 tbsp cider or white wine vinegar

2 tsp clear honey

½ tbsp wholegrain mustard

A pinch of salt

A generous grinding of black pepper

55g (2oz) pea shoots

75g (2½oz) lettuce, roughly shredded

75g (2½oz) Cheshire (or similar) cheese, crumbled

A handful of spicy microgreens such as radish, rocket or mustard

1. Mix together the oil, vinegar, honey, mustard, salt and pepper to make a dressing.

2. Put the pea shoots, lettuce and cheese into a bowl. Add the dressing and mix everything together.

3. Garnish with the microgreens.

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Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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