Celebrate Spring with raw – not roasted – asparagus with peas, feta and lemon.
Roasted is usually the way we enjoy asparagus at our house. So I was skeptical when I heard of eating asparagus raw. No more.
This raw asparagus salad is a playful mixture of flavors and textures. The asparagus is crisp, the peas soft and the feta creamy. Stir in a tart lemon vinaigrette and this is a Spring Celebration on your plate.
If you’ve never eaten asparagus raw – neither had I, before this salad – you are in for a real treat. It is crunchy, delicious and so unique served this way. Bonus: it takes only about 10 minutes to put together, and that includes all the chopping! I predict that this will become a spring staple in your house.
Raw Asparagus Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
2 lemons
1 garlic clove
1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper
6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Pinch of sugar (optional)
1 bunch of thin asparagus
1 block (4 ounces) feta
1 cup frozen peas
Squeeze the juice from the lemons into a blender. Add just a pinch of lemon zest. Add garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil and blend until very smooth. Taste and add salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar if desired, to taste.
Slice the tough ends off the asparagus. Slice asparagus into slices a little thicker than 1/4 inch. Cut the feta into 1/4 inch cubes.
Toss the vinaigrette with the asparagus, peas and feta. Serve immediately.
- 2 lemons
- 1 garlic clove
- ¼ teaspoon each salt and pepper
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Pinch of sugar (optional)
- 1 bunch of thin asparagus
- 1 block (4 ounces) feta
- 1 cup frozen peas
- Squeeze the juice from the lemons into a blender. Add just a pinch of lemon zest. Add garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil and blend until very smooth. Taste and add salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar if desired, to taste.
- Slice the tough ends off the asparagus. Slice asparagus into slices a little thicker than ¼ inch. Cut the feta into ¼ inch cubes.
- Toss the vinaigrette with the asparagus, peas and feta. Serve immediately.
Other food bloggers do raw asparagus:
Shaved Asparagus Salad, Cookin Canuck
Blood Orange Asparagus Salad, Cafe Johnsonia
Shaved Asparagus with Parmesan Salad, A Couple Cooks