Our method of cooking green peas is the best way to prepare them, because it takes advantage of their natural sweetness and allows them to retain their freshness. We use a combination of butter and olive oil for a sauteed green pea dish that’s both flavorful and healthy.
Our Sauteed Green Peas Recipe is simple, healthy, and delicious.
Green peas are a staple in the Indian diet—and rightfully so! They’re delicious, nutritious, and packed with fiber. You can use this recipe as a base for lots of different dishes. Try it in our Chicken Tikka Masala or any other curry you like!
Green Peas
Fresh green peas in the winter have a different taste and flavour than those available all year. These are extremely soft, somewhat sweet, and devoid of any fibrous texture.
Ingredients
- Green peas
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1/4 cup Parsley
- 1/4 tbsp cornstarch or flour
Instructions
- Put plenty of butter in water and let it boil , throw in a shelled peas gradually , keeping the broth boiling.
- Peas must cook in plenty of broth rapidly; cooking them too slowly or for too long tome, or letting them stand too long when done greatly impairs their flavor.
- Shortly before serving add some salt but not too much, because the are easily over-salted ,and, if they are not sweet enough , put in a small lump of sugar.
- Stir into them finely chopped parsley, and cornstarch or flour smoothed in water(a quater of a teaspoonful at a time).
- Or instead of this, knead flour and butter into a small dumpling and put this with the peas as soon as they begin to boil; it dissolves graduaaly , thickens the broth somewhat and imparts a pleasant flavor to the peas.
- If there is abundant broth, little sponge or bread dumplings can be cooked with it at the last.
- Peas can also be cooked as directed in the second receipt for carrots, or , after boiling them in salt water, they may be stewed in cream sauce or else drench in butter and scatter chopped parsley over them
- For a paticularly fine dish the peas may be garnished with the tails of crabs or stuffed crab shells.
- Peas are served with roast spring chicken, veal cutlets, croquettes, raw ham, hot or cold tongue, smoked salmon , fried eels and other crisply fried fish.