Tell me this doesn't sound like the punchline to a joke, or maybe the beginning of a nursery rhyme: Peas, pickles, peanuts, and... eggs. Together. In a salad. Crazy? Unappetizing? Or cult classic barbecue side dish? Depends on who you're talking to.
According to Karen at Savoury Table, pea and pickle salad is a classic side dish for BBQs and cookouts, an old-timey recipe updated just a bit with extra jalapeno and onion.
The combination sounds a bit crazy to me, but sometimes crazy is good, right? Sweet and salty, sour and punchy — I am tempted to give this stuff a try myself!
→ Get the Recipe: Pea and Pickle Salad at Savoury Table
Do you make pea and pickle salad?
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the salad vaguely resembles classic salad olivye, a salad I've eaten and made many times, from Eastern Europe. That one contains (at least my version) - potatoes, peas, pickles, eggs, cukes, ham, and mayo. The peanuts are the strange part, in my opinion, but I'd give them a shot.
I think the show Moment of Luxury on PBS talked about this salad when they were doing a show based around Edith Wharton/the Gilded Age. Apparently, it was a very popular salad to take on picnics in the late 1800s.
That's just a whole church supper, right there.
ha, so funny! I'll have to try it.
I LOVE adding pickles to my egg salad -- and to my tuna salad, too, for that matter. In fact, when I was growing up, tuna sandwiches at my house were made with a combination of tuna and hard-boiled eggs plus mayo and other condiments. It was not until I was an adult that I realized people ate either egg salad or tuna salad, but not the two combined.
Not long ago I discovered the joys of adding crunchy, salty peanuts to my egg salad. I had about half a bag of peanuts left over from a snack attack, and I thought, hey, this would be a nice combination. Creamy eggs (mayo, Dijon mustard, a bit of curry powder), crunchy onions, and crunchy, salty peanuts. Heaven!
Now, adding both pickles AND peanuts seems like a bit of a stretch, though...
Lost me at peanuts, but everything else sounds very similar to Persian potato salad with Persian gherkins, chicken, potatoes, eggs, peas, and carrots. The success of this salad depends on the pickles. It has to be more salty than vinegary, so sour dills might not work very well in this salad.
This looks to me like a pretty classic Midwestern pea salad, with peanuts on top instead of the usual bacon. You'll turn this up at pretty much every salad bar in Iowa.
I'm 15 weeks pregnant and trying to think if we have all those ingredients at home so I can make a batch as soon as I get off work -- it sounds just perfect to my hormonal taste buds!
@tess09 that's how we ate our salads too! can't wait to try this, though i am a bit a skeptical about the peanuts...
Thank you so much for passing this wonderful recipe on to your readers. Yes, believe it or not it is delicious. Here in Colorado I love using Tru Pickles but the more widely available Claussen pickles work well too. You gotta try it and what the heck, sprinkle those peanuts on top!