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:

• Porta a bollore un litro d’acqua leggermente salata. Sgrana i piselli e tienili da parte per altre ricette. Pulisci i baccelli eliminando estremità e filamenti laterali più duri.

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

• In una casseruola ampia, fai soffriggere cipolla e patata con un filo d’olio per 5 minuti a fiamma dolce.

• 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. Servi le sferette sulla vellutata calda, aggiungendo un filo di olio extravergine d’oliva se desideri.

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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