Pea salad is a classic side dish to serve up at dinner, picnics, potlucks, and summer cookouts. If you are looking for a cold pea salad, this recipe is a must make.
A green pea salad is the ultimate side dish. This creamy salad is a must make. Salty bacon, red onions, sharp cheddar cheese, all-in-one creamy cheese, and pea salad.
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This is one dish I make a lot for a bbq side dish when I want something simple and easy. There is something about peas and bacon that just works.
Why You Will Love This Pea Salad...
- Affordable to make
- Frozen pea recipe
- Great holiday side dish (Easter, 4th of July, Etc)
- Potluck recipe
- Versatile in ingredients you use
- Creamy
- Savory
- A sweet pea salad the whole family can enjoy
Ingredients Needed
- Frozen Peas
- Red Onions
- Mayonnaise
- Salt & Pepper
- Sugar
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Cubed Cheese
- Bacon
- Sour Cream
What to serve with this cold salad – Sloppy Joes, Bourbon Glazed Ham, Bratwurst, Memphis chicken.
How to Make
Step 1: The first thing you want to do is pour your peas into a large bowl.
Step 2: Add in the chopped bacon, cubed cheese, and chopped red onions. If you want to add other ingredients, this is the time.
Step 3: In a small bowl, add in your sour cream, mayonnaise, and salt, pepper, and sugar. Mix until creamy.
Step 4: Pour the sauce onto the pea mixture, stir well. Once combined, cover and store for 1 hour in the fridge or until you are ready to eat.
Step 5: Toss the pea salad with bacon right before serving. You can top with extra bacon, or serve as is.
This is a summer side dish, and a great make-ahead side dish.
Storage
You need to store your sweet pea recipe in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. This side dish is best served within the first 1-2 days of being made.
If you find it looks like it is drying out, add a splash of milk or add more mayonnaise. Stir and then it will be a creamy pea salad again!
Variations To Recipe
- Cook small pasta to al dente to make this a pasta salad with peas recipe.
- Add in diced ham to replace bacon, or in addition too.
- Add in some dill pickle relish for a twist.
- Use plain Greek yogurt in replace of sour cream.
- Add in some diced pimentos.
- Cut up and toss in diced hard-boiled eggs.
- You can use Miracle whip to replace mayonnaise.
- Use sweeteners to replace sugar.
- Add in different spices and herbs to alter the flavor
Expert Tips
- Make sure to use frozen peas for this recipe.
- Skip the red onion if you are not a fan.
- You can add more mayo or sour cream to make the salad creamier in texture.
- I used apple cider vinegar but you could swap with rice vinegar or white distilled.
- Consider pea salad with lettuce where you serve this salad over a bed of iceberg lettuce.
Recipe FAQs
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Pea Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 4 cups frozen peas thawed
- 1 teaspoon sugar or sweetener
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup of sharp cheese cut into cubes
- 8-10 slices of cooked bacon diced up
- 1/4 cup red onions diced or thinly sliced
Instructions
- Start by adding your peas, diced bacon, red onion, and cubed cheese into a bowl.
- Grab a small bowl and add in the sour cream, mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper. Mix up till nice and creamy.
- Pour the creamy sauce over the sweet pea mixture, and stir well. Once combined, cover and store for 1 hour in the fridge.
- Right before serving give a good toss, top with extra bacon if you want.
- This pea salad is a classic recipe great to serve with dinner, take as a potluck side dish, and more.
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Notes
- Swap bacon with ham or do bacon and ham in the recipe.
- Frozen peas are a must, as canned peas will become mushy.
- Add in hard-boiled eggs that are diced up.
- Make this a pea salad with lettuce, and serve over a bed of lettuce.
- If the mixture is not creamy enough add more mayonnaise or a splash of milk.
- Season to taste.
- You can use white distilled vinegar in replace or rice vinegar.
- Leave the meat out if you want a vegetarian side dish.
- You can make this cold pea salad a day in advance of when you want to serve it.
- Store your leftover creamy pea salad in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
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