Blanched Sugar Snap Peas

Name: Blanched Sugar Snap Peas
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon, table salt; 4 cups, sugar snap peas (about 1 pound), stems snipped off and strings removed if needed

Side Dishes
Vegetables
Quick
Vegetarian

Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1997

Blanching followed by an immediate shock in ice water yields tender peas that hold their shape.

SERVES 6

TIME 15 minutes

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