Creamy Pea Pod Sauce: Zero waste Recipe

Fifth issue of the column Zero Waste in the Kitchen!
Today we turn usually discarded pea pods into a creamy and nutritious velouté, proving that even the less noble parts of vegetables can become stars of our dishes.

Pea pods

Peas are low-calorie legumes that are also suitable for slimming diets and are rich in nutrients and antioxidant properties. They are rich in phosphorus and low in calories and are useful against constipation and in low-calorie diets.
In this episode of #zerosprechincucina we present pea pods velouté, a no-waste recipe that allows us to use peels that we usually discard.

Instead, these peels have remarkable nutritional properties, very few calories, zero fat. Sources of vitamin A, C and K, pods have characteristics Antioxidants and immune system boosters. Vitamin K is important for bone health and blood clotting.

Velvety pea pod soup

Ingredients:

• 200 g Pea pods already shelled
• 1 Potato
• 1 Onion
• 1 liter of water
  For the aromatic spheres
• 150 g Robiola
• herbs chives, fennel

Procedure:

• Bring one liter of lightly salted water to a boil. Shell the peas and set aside for other recipes. Clean the pods by removing tougher ends and side filaments.

• Peel the potato and cut it into cubes. Coarsely chop the onion.

• In a large saucepan, sauté onion and potato with a drizzle of oil for 5 minutes over low heat.

• Add the pods and boiling water, enough to cover the vegetables. Cook for about 30 minutes, checking that the pods are cooked: they should soften but remain slightly fibrous.

• Blend until smooth. To remove any strands, you can pass the velouté through a sieve Celery use a fine masher

Aromatic herb spheres

1. Finely chop the chosen herbs (chives, fennel or others to taste).

2. Form small balls with the robiola and roll them in the chopped herbs.

3. Serve the spheres on the hot velouté, adding a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil if desired.

More Zero Waste ideas and recipes

• Otherwise, you can prepare some yummy meatballs with the pea pods.
• With the broad bean pods instead you can prepare original goat cheese balls stuffed: easy and perfect for an aperitif or appetizer.
• If, on the other hand, you want to enjoy a cream of peas but you're short on time, you can try our Peas and Zucchini Cream.
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