A Guide To Cooking Snap Peas

Snap peas can be used as an ingredient in any type of dish that you fancy. There are several types of snap peas which come in all manner of sizes with the most common being the Asian snow peas and the sugar snap peas. In most grocery stores, the above snap pea's types are the most common and you are sure to find them stocked all across the stores. Unfortunately, snap peas tend to be seasonal which is one disadvantage associated with them. They are available in plenty during late spring. Cooking snap peas can be as easy as boiling them in some water and then having pasta with them. Apart from having them with pasta, snap peas can also be cooked as part of another recipe. To begin with, got to the market and get some snap peas. Buy them along with their pods if you can.

Shelling the peas will be the first step before you embark on cooking them. Have the pea's ends both trimmed before the start of the cooking process. After you are through with these simple steps, you can embark on cooking the snap peas by boiling them, saut?ing or steaming them.The boiling process is pretty simple as all that is required of you is to take the snap peas and put them in a big pot where they will be covered by water and bring them to the boil till they become tender. For the steaming process, you will need to have a steamer where you will place the peas and steam the peas till they become soft. To saut? the peas which is the third process of preparing them, you will need to have a pan and melt some butter or olive oil and proceed to fry the peas for two or three minutes.

Once you are through with saut?ing, steaming or boiling the peas, you can now add basil, mint or tarragon to the snap peas. Depending on the taste that you want the peas to adopt, you can add some pepper or salt to the peas. After putting in the salt and pepper, you can decide to drizzle some sesame oil on top of the peas as well as garnishing them with sesame seeds that have been toasted. There are other ways of how to cook peas. The sugar snap peas happen to be small and are contained in some rounded pods with the small peas inside. These peas tend to have a sweet and fresh flavor that is characterized by some crunchy texture. The best pods are those that are crisp and bright green so avoid those pods that are almost bursting at the seams. Cut up the ends and proceed to stir fry the snap peas or just steam them. The cutting is best if the ends of the snap peas have a tough feel to them. Steaming is an ideal way of cooking the snap peas due to its ability to leave the nutrients as they are.