The recipe I will be sharing today is a recipe I came up with when I was in a Chinese grocery store shopping for supplies. I was looking for some Thai beef balls and came upon the snow pea sprouts. Now I’ve been craving for Thai/Cambodian salad, you know the taste of lime, chillies and fish sauce? So I remember making a sunflower sprouts salad last christmas and thought why not try it with these beautiful looking snow peas sprouts. I honestly never cooked with snow pea sprouts before, but I was glad to come upon them and give it ago.
As healthy as sunflower sprouts, snow pea sprouts are great for your health. The shoots are high in protein and are a great source of antioxidants, phytonutrients, enzymes, oxygen, minerals and vitamins. It’s one of the best alkaline foods you can think of and it’s great to add them to your daily diet, which I will be doing.
Note: I added a huge amount of snow pea sprouts into my salad and found that they were a bit chewy because of the bulbs. So I recommend you trim about 1.5cm of the bulb to get rid of the harder parts of the shoots.
Unlike sunflower sprouts, snow pea sprouts take longer to soften so when making this salad it would be best to mix the dressing with the shoots first to soften them and then add in the rest of the vegetables like cucumber. Cucumber softens really fast after being seasoned so if added the same time as the shoots it will become very soggy.
SNOW PEA SPROUT SALAD
Prep-Time: 15 mins Serve: 3
Ingredients
2 cucumber, thinly sliced
100g snow pea sprouts
150g cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 large shallot, sliced
dressing
5 thai chillies
1 small clove garlic
1 tbsp brown/palm sugar
2 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
3/4 lime juice
Method
Ground the chillies and garlic in a mortar. Add in the rest of the dressing ingredients and then mix to allow the sugar to dissolve. Set a side.
In a medium sized salad bowl add in the snow pea sprouts and then add the salad dressing. Mix the salad for 3-5 minutes until the shoots soften and then add in the rest of the vegetables into the bowl. Toss the salad to combine and all vegetables are nicely coated with the sauce. Transfer the salad on to a serving plate and serve as a side or with grilled meat and rice.
