Pea Salad Recipe
Craving a classic pea salad? This can be served up at dinner, picnics, potlucks, and summer cookouts. If you are looking for a cold pea salad, this recipe is a must make. This easy cold salad recipe is one we make all year round.
Servings 1 batch
Calories 170kcal
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.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 170kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 298mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g