Can I serve braised lettuce, peas, and spring onions as a main dish?

Braised lettuce is usually served as a side dish, but you can also serve it as a light main dish, for example with some cooked rice or quinoa.

Can I make braised lettuce in advance and reheat it?

Braised lettuce tastes best when prepared fresh and served immediately. Reheating braised lettuce can affect the texture and flavor, making it a bit limp.

Braised lettuce, peas, and spring onions

Name: Braised lettuce, peas, and spring onions
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4P
Ingredients: 4 heads of lettuce; 250g peas (or frozen); 1 bunch of spring onions; 1 lemon; 30g butter; 2 tbsp sunflower oil; pepper and salt

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Do you want to try making this braised lettuce, peas, and spring onions yourself? Discover the full recipe here!

Ingredients

What do you need?

Quantity: 4P

4 heads of lettuce
250g peas (or frozen)
1 bunch of spring onions
1 lemon
30g butter
2 tbsp sunflower oil
pepper and salt

Preparation method

How do you make this?

Dip the peas in boiling water and drain them as soon as the water starts boiling again. Shock them in ice-cold water.

Remove the outer leaves of the lettuce heads (save them to make soup). Cut the lettuce hearts into 4 and sauté them until golden brown on all sides over fairly high heat in a large frying pan with the melted butter. Season them and remove from the pan.

Trim the spring onions a bit and sauté them until golden brown in the same pan, adding sunflower oil. Add the drained peas, season, mix for 1 min., and remove from heat. Put the lettuce hearts back in the frying pan.

Drizzle with lemon juice and serve warm as a side dish with chicken, grilled fish, ...

Tips

There is a handy and beautiful way to squeeze lemon juice without seeds: wrap half lemons in a small piece of mesh! And this before you press. Practical and beautiful!