Peas, please: As featured in the Guardian’s Feast magazine.
A bag of peas is every bit as useful as a tin of tomatoes and one of those kitchen essentials that we always have in our freezer.
Frozen peas are so versatile, not just for serving with fish fingers and chips – chuck them in a frittata, blitz for a pasta sauce, and the “distinctively French” petits pois à la française.
Food writer Xanthe Clay tested 14 different packs of peas for the Daily Telegraph and only one got a 5/5 rating, with 2 runners up at 4/5 which goes to show that not all peas are equal! But her research discovered that “Britain is 90 per cent self-sufficient in peas, growing 160,000 tonnes a year, mostly on the fertile east coast between Suffolk and Dundee. They grow in a tangle of low, self-supporting vines and are harvested in an intense 10 weeks from June to August, when huge “pea viners” – specialist combine harvesters – comb the fields, stripping the pods from the plant, bursting them open and separating the peas. “
Anyway………once you have found your preferred peas, Rosie Sykes has some delicious and cost effective ideas of what to do with them, featured in the Guardian’s Feast magazine. For fans of Dr Seuss there is Green Eggs and for street food lovers, try Pea and Potato pav bhaji.
See all the prospector pans here:
