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Peas are frozen blanched
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Frozen peas are a classic from the freezer. You can also freeze your pea crop from your own garden and preserve it for several months - perfect for a warm winter pea soup with home-grown vegetables!
Prepare peas for freezing and deep-freeze
When the round peas appear and feel clearly underneath the pod's shell, it's time to pop them out and freeze them. This is done in four steps:
- Break open the pea pods and peel the peas out. Pour the peas in bubbly boiling salted water for two minutes. Put the poured peas in ice water for a moment to stop the cooking process and preserve the green color of the legumes. The drained peas now come in a suitable freezer and then in the freezer. Freezer bags, cotton bags and lockable plastic or stainless steel boxes are equally suitable.
The frozen peas are stable for about a year. The longer they are stored, the more they lose their vitamins and flavor.
Freeze the mangetout
Sugar snap peas are so tender that they can be eaten completely. They are harvested very young, so that the sugar peas awake inside are still tiny.
You can freeze peas as well as marrow or peas. Before blanching, wash the pods and cut off the stalk with a sharp knife.
Thaw frozen peas
Depending on how you use it, you have several options for thawing the frozen peas. Since the peas are very small or the pods are very thin, thawing is done in a few minutes.