Green peas with breadcrumbs

You can’t imagine how long it had been since I’d eaten simple tinned peas like these. And warm, with breadcrumbs, at that. A taste of my younger days, really. At least that’s how I remember it.

I made them as a side dish — one of several, I think, because there was quite a lot of cooking over Easter and I may be mixing things up — for duck. Incredible duck. Prepared by my mum.

We ate that duck practically all through Easter Sunday. It was enormous (actually, there was more than one duck, but for the sake of a clear conscience, that sounds better). Delicious. And this very simple, truly primitive accompaniment of tinned peas was the perfect complement, and proof that the enormous duck had found its way to none other than Prymitywna Kuchnia.

Yes, this was practically the first Easter at my place. Usually I went to my parents, but this time the situation was reversed. I can safely say it was a success. And it was a very tasty Easter. Tasty and exceptionally fattening. So I think I’ll have to ease off for a little while. In the near future, then, expect… salads? Well, it is spring, after all…

At a glance:

Preparation time: 8 minutes

Serves: at a guess, about 3 – 4 portions

Calories: a few green, eco-friendly ones

Ingredients for a very simple tinned-pea side dish:

• 1 tin of peas
• 3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
• half a teaspoon of olive oil
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• freshly ground black pepper

Recipe for warm peas:

I heated the butter and olive oil in a saucepan. I added the drained tinned green peas and stirred gently. Over a low “flame” (about 3 – 4 on my induction hob’s scale of 1 – 10), I heated them for about 2 – 3 minutes. Finally, I added 3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs and stirred gently so that the crumbs mixed thoroughly with the fat and coated the peas.

Super-simple and quite tasty peas with breadcrumbs are ready 🙂 Enjoy!