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Festive Pea Salad Recipe

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Colorful and dressed up enough for Christmas, here's an easy-to-make salad that is wonderful all year-round. The green peas and red onion make it especially festive looking.

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Festive Pea Salad Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling

Yield: 8 Servings

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Ingredients

1 package (16 ounces) frozen petite peas, thawed
1-1/2 cups fresh snow peas, trimmed and halved
1 cup halved thinly sliced red onion
1 jar (2 ounces) diced pimientos, drained
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon minced fresh mint
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
Dash to 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
5 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the peas, onions and pimientos. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sour cream, mint, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Pour over pea mixture; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Just before serving, stir in the bacon. Yield: 8 servings.

Originally published as Festive Pea Salad in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2003, p38

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Reviewed on Aug. 27, 2012 by RKRKRK

Nice Recip

Reviewed on May. 08, 2009 by HBcook

This is very good. I used light mayo and didn't add the mint - it seemed out of place. Next time I will chop the onions because even thinly sliced they're too strong. The bacon is a must.