How I cook frozen peas – Garlic Buttered Peas

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Make frozen peas fabulous with this look for ail buttered peas! A speedy broadside crockery that goes with everything, the peas are sauté-steamed successful ail butter, alternatively than boiling separately. Easier, tastier, ne'er mushy and truthful tasty you’ll go known for them.

I thin to shy distant from sharing basal recipes similar today’s Buttered Peas. Too easy distracted by much exciting-sounding dishes. Pierogis! Crispy chickenhearted burgers! Chocolate pick pie!

Yet, the irony successful each this, of course, is that I marque these peas a gazillion times much often than I bash Basque Cheesecake. A staple broadside dish, speedy to marque but wholly restaurant-worthy. Though, posh restaurants mightiness pod their ain alternatively than buying frozen. I conjecture they don’t bargain into the full snap-frozen happening similar I do?

Ingredients

I americium a spot of a frozen rootlike snob. You’ll ne'er find store-bought frozen broccoli oregon bulb successful my freezer. But you volition ever find peas. Because they are good!

Frozen peas – Cook from FROZEN, not thawed! Well, it’s good if they are thawed but determination is nary request to.
Baby vs regular – The look works for either. Baby peas (called petite peas successful immoderate countries) are somewhat sweeter with a somewhat softer skin. I americium partial to these but won’t hesitate to usage regular peas.
Fresh – You could besides enactment maine to shame by making this look with freshly podded peas.
Butter – For beauteous buttery flavour. Substitute with different lipid of prime – other virgin olive lipid is my adjacent pick, coconut lipid for a tropical / Indian vibe.
Garlic – It conscionable makes everything that overmuch much delicious. Fresh please! Give the jarred worldly a miss – it’s sour and bedewed truthful you can’t sauté it decently and the flavour hardly resembles the existent deal.
Salt and pepper – Seasoning. Peas request it!

How I navigator frozen peas

To navigator from frozen, conscionable adhd the tiniest splash of h2o which helps steam-sauté them faster. The h2o evaporates by the clip the peas are cooked.

Sauté ail – Melt the food past sauté the ail until precise airy aureate successful mean heat, astir 30 seconds.
Tip the frozen peas in with brackish and pepper. Add 1 tablespoonful of h2o which creates a steamy situation to navigator the peas a small faster. The h2o evaporates successful a fewer minutes, leaving down conscionable tasty butter!

Cook for 5 minutes, stirring each present and then, oregon until the peas are heated through. Frozen peas are cooked earlier freezing truthful they don’t request to beryllium cooked!
Serve – Done and acceptable to serve! Pour into a vessel oregon enactment consecutive onto meal plates.
Delicious to devour arsenic is – I situation you to halt astatine 1 spoonful – but suggestions for dressing up are below!

Dress them up

For each day, buttered peas are terrific conscionable arsenic they are. The ail and food spell a agelong mode to marque peas a full batch much interesting!

But, if you’d similar to measurement it up a notch oregon conscionable consciousness similar doing thing different, present are immoderate suggestions:

Mint them – Toss done finely chopped caller mint. Mint and peas is simply a classic! Add nevertheless overmuch you want, to your taste.
Lemon – Stir done citrus zest for beauteous citrus flavour, oregon foodstuff for tang.
Shower of parmesan – As with galore things, a mound of freshly grated parmesan volition crook this into a show-stopping side!
Clarified / browned butter alternatively of mean food – for adjacent much aggravated buttery flavour.
Spice it – Add immoderate curry powder, cumin, coriander, oregon different spice of prime into the butter, for a interaction of other flavour.
Crunch it – Finish with a large fistful of store-bought crispy Asian Fried Shallots oregon pangrattato (from this recipe), for large texture!

But that’s capable from me. What astir you? I cognize you’ve got a stack of different originative (easy!) ways to formal up a vessel of peas. Share, share! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

How I navigator frozen peas – Garlic Buttered Peas

Recipe video above. Make frozen peas fabulous with my look for buttered peas! A speedy broadside that goes with everything. Don't boil the peas – navigator from frozen successful ail butter. Easier, tastier, agleam green, ne'er mushy and ne'er watery!

Course Side

Cuisine Western

Keyword buttered peas, chickpea recipe, pea broadside crockery recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Total Time 10

Servings

Calories 129cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

50g / 3 tbsp unsalted butter (or different oil/fat)
2 garlic cloves , finely minced
500g / 1 lb frozen peas (Note 1)
1/2 tsp cooking / kosher salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp water

Instructions

Sauté ail – Melt food successful a ample saucepan implicit mean heat. Add ail and navigator for 30 seconds until airy golden.
Cook – Add frozen peas, salt, capsicum and water. Turn vigor up to mean precocious and navigator for 5 minutes, stirring each present and then, until the h2o is evaporated, the peas are blistery and coated successful the tasty ail butter.
Serve – Tumble into a vessel and serve!

Notes

1. Peas – Baby peas (also called petite peas) are somewhat sweeter and somewhat much tender tegument than regular peas. But by nary means bash I person a antagonistic thoughts astir regular peas!

2. Dress up peas – Finely chopped mint stirred done astatine the end, a ablution of parmesan (oh yes!), citrus zest and/or juice, a pinch of cumin oregon coriander pulverization stirred into the food (or different spices of choice). Fresh herbs of choice, chopped and stirred done astatine the end. So galore options!

3. Leftovers volition support for 4 days successful the fridge, oregon freezer for 3 months.

Nutrition per serving assuming 6 servings.