Crowd-Pleasing Pea Salad

Ingredients

• 0.25 pound sharp Cheddar cheese
• 2 (15 ounce) cans sweet peas, drained
• 1/3 cup diced red onion
• 0.5 cup mayonnaise, or to taste
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

Steps

1. Grate Cheddar cheese into a bowl and refrigerate while draining peas and dicing onion to keep cheese shreds from sticking together.
2. Mix cheese, peas, onion, mayonnaise, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a bowl.
3. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour to overnight.