Fresh Garden Peas, Sicilian-Style

Piselli alla Siciliana

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Floyd on Italy

By Keith Floyd

Published 1994

  • About

This is a simple but superb way to celebrate fresh garden peas. It is important to realise that the peas are the main event. The strips of chicken can be just for flavouring. As often happened on my journey through Italy, I was stuck for inspiration until I saw mountains of peas in the local market. Bright green, fresh and crunchy, piled as high as small hayricks or spilling from the back of one of those pale green, three-wheeled trucks that abound. I was on the little island of Marettimo,