After utilizing a small quantity of snow pea shoots in salads or as garnishes, I make Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts to make use of up the remaining. I discover that is one of the simplest ways to devour a considerable amount of snow pea sprouts as a result of they arrive in a pack with numerous shoots.

My Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts is stuffed with umami due to the beneficiant quantity of bonito flakes combined into the stir-fry.
Right now’s recipe is a fast-cooking facet dish. It takes solely a few minutes to cook dinner the snow pea sprouts, and also you hardly have to do any additional cooking after including the bonito flakes and seasonings. It’s prepared in lower than 5 minutes.
Snow pea sprouts and pea sprouts are completely different
To place it merely, snow pea sprouts are the younger shoots from snow peas, whereas pea sprouts come from common peas. Nevertheless, the identify ‘pea sprouts’ is typically used for snow pea sprouts as properly.
Sprouts are the primary stage in a plant’s life cycle. In the event that they sprout from snow pea seeds, they’re snow pea sprouts. In the event that they sprout from peas, you name them pea sprouts.

The place I reside, snow pea sprouts are extra available than pea sprouts.
You may additionally discover pea shoots bought in a big plastic container. They’re immature vegetation with tender leaves, harvested 2-3 weeks after germination.
The stems of snow pea sprouts is usually a little bit stringy, which makes them barely tough to chew when cooked at full-length. So, I lower the sprouts into 2.5cm/1” lengthy items to make them simpler to eat.

What’s in my Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts

- Snow pea sprouts
- Oil
- Bonito flakes
- Soy sauce
- Cooking sake.
When you’ve got pea sprouts, you’ll be able to in fact substitute them for snow pea sprouts.
Soy sauce, cooking sake, and mirin are essentially the most used seasonings in Japanese cooking. In the event you cook dinner Japanese dishes, you almost certainly have already got them in your pantry.
Tips on how to make Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts

- Minimize snow pea sprouts into 2.5cm/1” lengthy items.
- Warmth oil in a frying pan over medium-high warmth.
- Add snow pea sprouts to the pan and cook dinner for 1 – 1½ minutes.
- Add the remaining substances and blend properly. Flip the warmth off.
Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts is a fast facet dish you’ll be able to add to a meal once you need another dish. It’s a barely crunchy flavour bomb that goes very properly with rice.


Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts retains a number of days within the fridge, making it excellent for a bento field as properly.
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Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts
Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts is stuffed with umami due to the beneficiant quantity of bonito flakes combined into the stir-fry. It is a fast-cooking facet dish, taking only some minutes to stir-fry. It’s excellent as an emergency facet dish or for including to a bento field.
Do not forget to see the part ‘MEAL IDEAS’ under the recipe card! It provides you a listing of dishes that I’ve already posted and this recipe that may make up an entire meal. I hope it’s of assist to you.
Recipe Sort:
Aspect
Delicacies:
Japanese
Key phrase:
pea sprouts recipes, easy stir-fry, snow pea
Serves: 2
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Substances (tbsp=15ml, cup=250ml)
Directions
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Minimize snow pea shoots into 2.5cm/1” lengthy items.
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Warmth oil in a frying pan over medium-high warmth.
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Add the snow pea shoots to the pan and stir-fry for 1-1.5 minutes, till snow pea items begin wilting.
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Add bonito flakes and the remaining substances to the pan. Shortly stir, making certain that the bonito flakes and the flavourings are evenly combined with the snow pea sprouts.
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Flip the warmth off and instantly switch to a serving plate (word 3).
Recipe Notes
1. My snow pea sprouts got here in a plastic container and weighed 160g (see the photograph within the part “SNOW PEA SPROUTS AND PEA SPROUTS ARE DIFFERENT”). In case your sprouts are pea sprouts, that’s OK too.
2. Bonito flakes could be shaved into small items or bigger items like mine. Small bonito flakes normally are available in a small sachet and are very finely shaved. Yow will discover them within the Asian part of supermarkets. The bigger shaved items (like mine) are sometimes bought in an enormous plastic bag at Japanese/Asian grocery shops. Both kind is okay for this recipe.
3. Don’t go away the stir-fried snow pea sprouts on the new frying pan. As a result of the shoots are so high-quality and delicate, they are going to wilt an excessive amount of and lose crispness.
Meal Concepts
A typical Japanese meal consists of a principal dish, a few facet dishes, a soup and rice. I attempt to provide you with a mixture of dishes with a wide range of flavours, colors, textures and make-ahead dishes.
Right now’s facet dish is somewhat easy, so I picked a considerable meat dish as the primary. I selected a pickled radish as Aspect dish 2 so as to add a unique flavour and a brilliant color to the meal.
Plain rice is the very best to go together with each Hontsukidori and Stir-fried Snow Pea Sprouts.
