The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called doperwten, erwten, verse erwten.
In the Netherlands, garden peas are in season June to July, at their best in June. November is outside the Dutch season for garden peas.
Fresh peas in the pod have a short Dutch season in June and July. Most of the Dutch pea harvest goes straight to the freezer within hours of picking.
Pods should be bright, plump and squeaky. Big, pale peas are starchy.
Protein for a vegetable, fibre, vitamin C, thiamine (B1) and folate.
To get the most: Fresh peas lose sugar and vitamin C within hours of picking; cook them the day you buy them, briefly, or buy frozen out of season, which is frozen within hours of harvest.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of green peas (160 g) gives about half a day's vitamin K and about a third of a day's vitamin B1, counting what your body absorbs. That puts them 1st of the 26 legumes we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Pod just before cooking and give them two minutes in boiling water. Simmer the pods for a stock.
Simmer the empty pods for a sweet stock, then sieve. Young pea shoots and tendrils go in salads.
9 producers in The Field Guide sell garden peas, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 169 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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