Braised Lettuce and Peas

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 2 to 3 servings
  • Total: 20 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 10 min
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Ingredients

1 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil

3 medium shallots, halved and thinly sliced

1 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 cup low-sodium chicken broth

2 medium heads butter lettuce, washed, core removed, leaves halved and thinly sliced crosswise (Boston or bibb)

2 cups frozen baby peas

3 tablespoons greek yogurt or sour cream (optional)

Directions

  1. Heat oil in a medium frying pan over medium-high heat. When it shimmers, add shallots, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Sprinkle flour over the top and cook until raw taste is gone, about 30 seconds. Add stock and bring to a boil. Stir in lettuce and peas, reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until lettuce and peas are tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in yogurt or sour cream, if using. Taste, adjust seasoning as desired, and serve.

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I was looking for a braised lettuce recipe to work with my slightly bitter, bolted garden lettuce, and this one looked good - so, ... If anyone else gardens, we all hate to see lettuce bolt, because it pretty much ruins it for salad and such - but as a lover of the bitter greens, I had a feeling that it would work well in a braised lettuce recipe. I didn't change a thing about this recipe, except of course to use the bolted lettuce (I only used the leaves on the upper 2/3rds of the stalk - and they were a little bitter raw - but surprisingly, they cooked up in this recipe just fine, and I could hardly even tell it was bolted lettuce!<br /><br />If anyone else hates throwing beautiful big bolted lettuce stalks on the compost pile, try this recipe with them, and you'll stop throwing them away!

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