This week’s meat free recipe: Summer egg salad with basil & peas

Summer egg salad with basil & peas

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 160g  French beans (trimmed)
• 160g frozen peas
• 150g new potatoes (thickly sliced)
• 3 eggs
• 160g romaine lettuce (roughly torn into pieces)

For the dressing

• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tsp cider vinegar
• ½ tsp English mustard powder
• 2 tbsp chopped mint
• 3 tbsp chopped basil 
• 1 garlic clove (finely grated)
• 1 tbsp capers

Method 

1. Cook the potatoes in a pan of simmering water for 5 minutes. Add the beans and cook 5 minutes more, then tip in the peas and cook for 2 minutes until all the vegetables are just soft. Meanwhile, boil the eggs in another pan for 8 minutes. Drain and run under cold water, then carefully shell and halve.
2. Mix all the dressing ingredients together in a large bowl with a good grinding of black pepper, crushing the herbs and capers with the back of a spoon to intensify their flavours.
3. Mix the warm vegetables into the dressing to coat, then add the lettuce and toss everything together.
4. Place onto plates, top with the eggs and grind over some black pepper to serve.