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Stir Fried Snow Peas
Posted By Stephen
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants 🙂
Kerri was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, but then I remembered that we had some sugar snap peas that needed to be eaten and thought of having them stir fried with garlic and ginger. I didn’t do a lot of measuring, but the recipe went approximately like this:
1 pack sugar snap peas
half an onion, finely diced
two cloves of garlic, finely sliced
half an inch of ginger, cut into sticks
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
a little cornflour mixed with water
I heated up the wok to a high heat, added a bit of oil and then put in the onion. After a minute, I added the ginger and garlic and cooked for another minute or so. Then I added the sugar snap peas and stir fried for a couple of minutes, before turning down the heat and adding all the wet ingredients and covering. I left it for a few minutes more, sprinkled it with flaked almonds and ate it with rice.
Tasty and quick. And healthy too.
Aug 21st, 2008
(pedant alert) I’ve only just found out from here: http://appetiteforchina.com/sichuan-style-snow-peas that snow peas are actually mange tout, and not sugar snap peas. Confusing, huh?
You’re much better then me. I wanted something quick, too, so I walked to the Chinese Take Away!
Hehe thanks Lizzie. I think I might actually have known that but hunger-induced memory loss happened when I wrote the post. As it turns out though, there are actually some mange tout in there too because there were some of those left over from a few nights ago. So the title was correct in a way, but not quite in the way I’d intended 🙂
Sylvia, I almost did that too, but we’ve been trying really hard lately not to waste food and I figured that if I didn’t eat the sugar snap peas tonight then they’d probably get wasted 🙂
I hope you found something tasty at the take-away!