Spring Asparagus Ceviche

Serves: 4 starter size or as side salads

Prep time: 20 minutes

Dietary: Vegan, Gluten Free

Ingredients

• 80g mange tout or sugar snap peas, sliced
• 100g broad beans (podded weight)
• 6 radishes, sliced
• 8 large asparagus spears, peeled into long slices
• 3 small young carrots, peeled into long slices
• ¼ fennel, peeled into long slices

Tarragon Dressing

• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 3 tbsp lemon juice and 3/4 tsp fine lemon zest
• 1 tbsp white sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp finely sliced tarragon leaves plus a few whole leaves to decorate

Method

1. Prepare the salad vegetables. Double pod the broad beans. Trim the asparagus and carrots and peel down the length into strips. Peel the fennel into thin slices. Place the peeled vegetables into a bowl of ice cold water to crisp and curl. Slice the radishes and mange tout.
2. To make the dressing, mix together the white wine vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and salt and add in the chopped tarragon and lemon zest.
3. Drain the sliced vegetables and place them all together in a bowl. Pour the dressing over the vegetables and mix to coat them.
4. Arrange the vegetables on the plates or onto one large sharing plate. Garnish with tarragon leaves.
5. Serve straight away.

Colourful spring photography by Rob Wicks of Eat Pictures.