Skip to main content

Sugar Snaps with Flowering Pea Shoots, Peas, and Baby Onions

3.8

(2)

·Bear in mind you should only eat the flowering shoots of the garden pea, Pisum sativum. Don't try to cook with the flowering shoots of sweet peas from your flower garden — they're poisonous.

Cooks' note:

·Bear in mind you should only eat the flowering shoots of the garden pea, Pisum sativum. Don't try to cook with the flowering shoots of sweet peas from your flower garden — they're poisonous.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 8

Ingredients

10 ounces pearl onions, root ends trimmed and cut with an X
2 bunches scallions, white parts only
1 pound sugar snap peas, trimmed
1 pound fresh peas in pods, shelled (1 cup)
1/4 pound pea shoots (preferably flowering), cut into 3-inch lengths
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Boil pearl onions in salted water 15 minutes and drain in a colander. Rinse under cold water, then peel.

    Step 2

    Cook scallions and sugar snaps in a large pot of boiling salted water 1 minute. Add shelled peas and pearl onions and cook 1 minute more, or until all vegetables are crisp-tender. Drain vegetables and toss with pea shoots, butter, and salt and pepper to taste in a large bowl.

Read More
Spaghetti is a common variation in modern Thai cooking. It’s so easy to work with and absorbs the garlicky, spicy notes of pad kee mao well.
Keep this easy frittata recipe on hand for quick breakfasts, impressive brunches, and fridge clean-out meals.
Add a bag of potato chips and you've got yourself a party.
Because most of us do!
Like fattoush salad and strawberry shortcake roll.
Turn humble onions into this thrifty yet luxe pasta dinner.
A flexible San Francisco favorite, finished with bright, garlicky gremolata toasts for soaking up the saucy broth.
Chicken breasts reach their full potential in this spicy, saucy stir-fry with blistered green beans.