New Potatoes with Pickled Peas and Candied Walnuts

Delicious new potatoes with pickled peas and candied walnuts.

Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch

(Originally from https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sunday-brunch/articles/all/pickled-pea-and-potato-with-candied-walnuts/6534)

Ingredients

• 225g marrowfat peas (tin or frozen, but not mushy)
• 100ml white wine vinegar
• 100ml water
• 200g sugar
• tsp chilli flkes
• 10g salt
• 350g cooked new potatoes
• 3 chopped sping onions
• 200g walnuts
• 100g icing sugar
• 100ml olive oil
• 1 tbs grain mustard
• 100g frieze (frisée) / curly endive (curly small salad leaves)
• 1 tsp black onion seeds
• Garnish with mint

Method

1. Bring the water, vinegar, sugar, salt, chilli to the boil. Boil 3mins
2. Add peas, remove and cool
3. Lay the walnuts on a baking sheet, dust on sugar and roast at 150c for approx. 12mins, cool
4. Puree half the nuts, put in a bowl. Drain the pickle off the peas onto the nuts, add oil and mustard, whisk well
5. To serve toss everything together
6. Garnish with mint