Gingery Sugar Snap Peas

This quick, low calorie vegetable side dish is slightly sweet due to a peach preserve glaze.


Gingery Sugar Snap Peas

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Servings: 6 servings
Total Time: 15 mins
Related Categories: More Vegetables
 
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Ingredients
  • 3  cups
    fresh sugar snap peas or frozen loose-pack sugar snap peas
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  • 1  tablespoon
    butter or margarine
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  • 1  tablespoon
    peach preserves
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  • 1  teaspoon
    soy sauce
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  •   Dash
    ground ginger
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  •   Dash
    black pepper
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Directions
1.
Remove strings and tips from fresh peas. Cook fresh peas in a medium saucepan, covered, in a small amount of boiling salted water for 2 to 4 minutes or until crisp-tender. (Or, cook frozen peas according to package directions.) Drain well; set peas aside.
2.
In the same saucepan melt butter; stir in preserves, soy sauce, ginger, and pepper. Return peas to saucepan, stirring to coat. Makes 6 servings.

Nutrition information
Calories 78, Total Fat 2 g, Saturated Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 5 mg, Sodium 85 mg, Carbohydrate 11 g, Fiber 3 g, Protein 3 g. Daily Values: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 32%, Calcium 4%, Iron 6%. Exchanges: Vegetable 2, Fat .5. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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