Description: Pasta with crunchy sweet sugar snap peas and bacon. Another variation of aglio e olio peperoncino pasta.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Ingredients
- Pasta – 160g
- Sugar snap peas – 120g
- Bacon – chopped, 40g or 2 rashers
- Garlic – pureed, 2 cloves
- Olive oil – 2 tablespoons
- Salt – 1 dash
- Ground black pepper – 2 dashes
- Dry chili – chopped, 1 piece
Method
1. Cook spaghetti al dente in plenty of boiling water with salt.
2. Remove the string from the snap peas.
3. Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan, then add the bacon, snap peas and chili over medium heat for a few minutes, stirring regularly.
4. When pasta is almost cooked, stir in the garlic to the pan.
5. Add the hot drained pasta, salt and black pepper.
To serve: Sprinkle additional ground black pepper and squeeze lemon according to your preference.
Nutritional Values Per Serving
| Kcal | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fibre | Sugars | Salt | Saturated Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 477.1 | 15.7g | 17.4g | 65.4g | 4.9g | 4.4g | 0.7g | 1.9g |
| 23.9% | 31.3% | 24.9% | 25.2% | 16.4% | 4.9% | 11.6% | 9.7% |
Nutritional Tips
Sugar snap peas are fruits, although we eat them like vegetables. They are sweet and crunchy, and they are known as cool-season vegetables (I mean fruits?). Pods contain different numbers of peas inside, maybe around 3 to 10 or so. They are widely eaten as a salad, boiled, in soup, or stir-fried.
Sugar snap peas are fat-free unless cooked with oil. They can be eaten raw as well. They are not rich in vitamin K, even though the colour is green. So if you need to limit vitamin K due to medication, etc, it would be good to know that sugar snap peas contain less than asparagus or broccoli. While they do not offer a large amount of protein, they contain more protein than many other vegetables, as they are still a kind of “peas”. They are somewhat similar to snow peas, but the size of the peas is smaller and the taste is milder and less sweet than snow peas. You may have seen this more often with Chinese cuisine. If you are not a big fan of peas, then snow peas may be easier to eat, vice versa.
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