Cooking peas only briefly—in a little bit of butter—lets them retain their flavor, color, and texture.
Recipe information
Yield
serves 4
Ingredients
2
tablespoons unsalted butter
3
cups shelled fresh peas or thawed frozen peas
3
scallions, white and pale-green parts only, thinly sliced diagonally
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
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Preparation
Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the peas and scallions. Cook, stirring, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Reprinted with permission from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, copyright © 2007. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of The Crown Publishing Group.
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