Roasted Sugar Snap Peas Recipe - How to Cook Peas! (2024)

FAQs

Should sugar snap peas be crunchy when cooked? ›

Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Once hot, add the snap peas and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly until the peas are bright green in color and barely fork tender (we prefer them to still have a little crunch).

The white spots are scarring and you can eat them. Can you make the sugar peas ahead of time? Yes.

Snap peas are also known as sugar snap peas and are a cross between snow peas and garden peas. The whole pod is eaten and has a crunchy texture and very sweet flavor. Snap peas may be eaten raw or cooked.

Look for the “stringless” type in your grocery store for best results. It also helps to buy them in season, in the spring and summer months. Finally, avoid overcooking so your snap peas don't get stringy. Steaming sugar snap peas takes just 2-3 minutes so make sure to set that timer for the best taste and texture!

Sugar snap peas are usually served raw, but are so good cooked, as well. Cooking them lightly maintains the crunch factor, but enhances the flavors and sweetness. The three recipes in this post make for a simple yet elegant side dish.

UCMGCC Help Desk Response: Thank you for contacting the UC Master Gardener Program Help Desk with a question about your snap peas. Snap peas' pods will naturally become woody or tough when they are too mature (late Spring for most County gardeners, a little later in West County). This is a common problem.

Green peas are amazingly good raw, especially if you can shell them and eat them before they get too big and tough. The best way to cook them is to toss them in boiling, salted water for about two minutes, then drain them and toss them in butter. Eat them with a spoon.

Sugar snap peas are a cross between snow and garden peas. The pods of snow peas are flatter with small, premature peas, whereas sugar snap peas are more rounded. Both have an identical nutritional profile and very similar flavors. Still, sugar snap peas tend to be sweeter and more flavorful.

Do snow peas need to be cooked? Snow peas can be eaten raw or cooked. However, blanching snow peas will reduce the fibrousness of the edges of snow peas, and boost sweetness and colour. Another good way to cook snow peas is to toss them with a little oil in a hot wok for 1-2 minutes or until tender-crisp.

Soaking is strongly recommended for all beans and peas, except lentils and black-eyed peas, for even cooking and to remove water-soluble, gas-producing starches. Soaking can be done using the traditional or the quick-soak method. TRADITIONAL METHOD: Clean and rinse beans; cover with three times as much water as beans.

Do you eat the skin of snow peas? ›

Snow peas can be consumed pea-pod and all. However, you should first remove the tough string along the pod side before eating. "A paring knife allows you to hook onto and peel back the fibrous string that runs along the pod's seam," says Welsh.

Wash the peas under cold water and drain. Then remove the string by snapping off the end of the pod, and pulling along the entire length of the pod. The string is edible but quite tough and unpleasant to eat.

Soak Sugar Snap Peas Before Planting to Aid Germination

I've found that soaking my peas for 12 to 24 hours immediately before planting gives me the most success with germination (just a fancy way of saying seeds sprouting).

Steaming yielded tender peas, but they tasted flat. We found that sugar snaps greatly benefit from the addition of some salt as they cook, something that can only be done if the peas are blanched. Blanching ended up being our method of choice, producing peas with excellent flavor and texture.