Little gems with lemon cream, spring onion, radish, and mint from Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables (page 101) by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg

Ingredients

spring onions
heavy cream
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Notes about this recipe

ndschmidt on June 12, 2026

Truly one of the best salads ever.
denmar086 on April 19, 2026

This salad was such a winner. It did require more preparation than I would normally do for a salad, particularly the breadcrumbs, ice water baths, and dressing, but I will definitely make it again. The dressing was a bit tricky. It didn't thicken with whisking, so I put it in a jar and shook it. This made it thicker, but almost too thick. Was still delicious! The full recipe resulted in too much for a single person. I think it would be okay for leftovers if left without dressing.
anyah_h60oih on March 30, 2026

The perfect spring salad! Added slivered peas since I had extra
ellwell on July 22, 2025

Really nice salad. Very crunchy. Everything takes and ice water bath before it is put together.
joeljkp on May 12, 2025

Mother's Day 2025. I was lucky to find some nice little gems at the farmer's market, so had to go for this salad. It turned out great - just as advertised, light and refreshing and full of crunch. It did take a while, with all the slicing and soaking, and making the various components with their own recipes.
prkrgrant on May 08, 2025

Yep yep yep, another winner. Added pistachios, otherwise to recipe and it was great
jimandtammyfaye on April 10, 2023

Delicious salad and dressing. Made dressing a couple hours ahead of time and it worked well. Left out mint and breadcrumbs. Little gems lettuce was not available so substituted butter leaf lettuce. Definite repeat.
meginyeg on July 04, 2022

We loved this. I didn't have mint and left out the bread crumbs. But the lemon cream was lovely.
mharriman on May 20, 2021

I agree with the reviewers who thought this was a great salad. I substituted the citrus vinaigrette (recipe on same page) for the lemon cream, so my review is based on that. This is really a simple salad. The most time consuming part is thinly slicing the radishes and scallions and soaking them in ice water for 20 minutes. The sunflower seeds sprinkled on top adds a nice subtle crunch and nuttiness to the greens and vegetables.
aeader on May 09, 2021

We loved this salad and will definitely repeat. Very refreshing and the flavors were great together. Left out the sunflower seeds and breadcrumbs because I didn't have them but look forward to trying the salad again with them. Note that the lemon cream has to be started 2 hours ahead so that the garlic can steep in the cream.
Lepa on May 23, 2020

We didn't love this but I think I messed up the lemon cream dressing, which tasted watery, so I may try again on another occasion.
ksg518 on May 02, 2019

What a wonderful spring salad! We made it as written except using small croutons instead of the bread crumbs and we used pumpkin seeds instead of the sunflower seeds (which worked out fine). I especially loved the addition of the mint and the use of the lemon cream dressing.
sosayi on April 24, 2019

Delicious salad! It was the only thing that was completely gone at Easter dinner. We used a basic baby romaine (not Little gem variety) and that worked well. The lemon cream was surprisingly delicious (note: I did need to add extra lemon juice for our tastes). I doubled the salad and used the full amount of the separate Lemon Cream dressing recipe. I used one bunch of scallions for the doubled salad and that was perfect, for us, too. I enjoyed the breadcrumbs, as the radish added enough “large” crunch on its own.
anya_sf on August 30, 2018

The lemon cream was outstanding with the little gem lettuce. Bibb or butter lettuce would also be good. I only used 2 scallions, and still found the raw onion flavor to be a bit strong, even after soaking, but I'm sensitive to that. I omitted the radishes (couldn't find any at the farmers' market). The mint was nice, and the sunflower seeds were a delicious addition. I think small croutons would work better than the dried breadcrumbs.