Name: Pois Mangetout à la Française (Snow Peas with Lettuce and Chives)
Yield: Serves 3–4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 finely sliced scallions; a handful of mint leaves; 3 tablespoons butter; 8 ounces snow peas; salt; a pinch of sugar; 1 tablespoon finely chopped chives; ½ Boston lettuce, shredded

Preparation info

Serves
3–4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from a French Herb Garden

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1999

About

The delicate flavor of tender snow peas is brought out when they are cooked ‘in the French style’ with butter, lettuce, and chives.

Ingredients

8 ounces snow peas
3 tablespoons butter
a pinch</

Europe
France
Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Trim the ends from the snow peas. Melt all but a tablespoon of the butter in a pan and stir in the snow peas. Add the sugar and salt, cover the pan, and cook over moderate heat for 5 minutes.

Stir in the lettuce, chives, and scallions, gently tossing the vegetables together until the lettuce

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