Side Dish -- Peas (great treatment for frozen)
Submitted by dvdlee on August 27, 2004 at 9:56 am

DESCRIPTION
Side Dish -- Peas (great treatment for frozen)

SUMMARY
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INSTRUCTIONS
This recipe is from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking (its the only recipe I've posted from that wonderful tome!)

These are truly delicious (even people who hate peas think this treatment is 'not bad'), fast and easy. Perfect for a holiday dinner as it doesn't require any oven time and is also fast and doesn't need much supervision.

Note: This for for 10 oz. -- you can double the recipe, but if needing to cook more than that -- separate and cook in 2 batches.

1 10 oz. box or bag of frozen peas (extra fine/small)
1 Tablespoon butter
1 Tablespoon minced shallots (or sub. green onion, but shallots are better!)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Large pinch of ground black pepper
1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock, vegetable stock or water (chicken stock is best)

1. Thaw the peas until they can be easily separated.

2. Bring butter, shallots, seasonings and stock to a boil in a skillet or saucepan.

3. Add the peas, cover, reduce heat and let it lightly boil for 5 minutes, until peas are almost tender.

4. Uncover, turn heat to high and rapidly boil off almost all of the liquid (a little liquid will remain to form a kind of 'sauce').

5. Correct seasonings if needed. Serve hot.