Stuffed Snow Peas

[Teraesa22]

Has anyone everymade an appetizer like this before? I'm thinking of stuffing snow peas w/spicy thai chicken (to be served cold). Do I need to blanch the snow peas before stuffing them?

[FoodFuser]

To borrow from the wisdom of Tennessee Williams' Streetcar: Blanche da' pois.

[scuzzo]

Stuffing snow peas sounds really fun, and I hadn't thought of it before. My first thought was a mixture of goat cheese and herbs. I know mint goes well with peas too.

[jodymaryk]

My first thought was it sounds like a lot of work! But I bet it would be good.

[nemo]

Hi, Teraesa I made stuffed snow peas so long ago that I don't remember if I blanched them or not. I piped in a cream cheese mixture. The pods split and fell apart. They tasted fine, but they were a disappointment and haven't made them since. You plan to use a slightly chunkier filling. You may have similar problems as I did.

If this is for an appetizer, why not make bite-size cucumber cups or hollow out cherry tomatoes or use endive leaves. They would be a sturdier container for your filling.

[toodie jane]

try to find Sugar Snap Peas (also called Edible Podded Peas). They are sturdier (yet still tender and sweet) and the pods retain their shape (they're boxier by nature) and won't fall apart. You can remove any peas inside and add them to the stuffing mixture. I made them raw, without blanching them.

Snap peas filled with piped-in cream cheese were all the rage in the 80's.

Maybe mix the stuffed snap peas with stuffed cherry tomatoes, using two different filling. I think a curried filling would be delicious with peas.

[Teraesa22]

I was planning on getting the sugar snap peas-I think the reason for blanching for a bit is so they hold up a little better w/the filling. But I am planning on serving a bunch of other app's along with it including some other stuffed veggies & fruits. I had a thai dish w/snow peas lately & it was excellent so I just figured it would be a good addition.

[toodie jane]

....the color might be a bit more intense, too, with blanching. Nice contrast with fillings.

[alkapal]

this recipe for stuffed snow peas blanches them for 10 seconds, after splitting the one side, to form a "boat" http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1926,135188-241193,00.html

this one also blanches for less than 30 seconds. http://www.colavita.com/recipesArchiv...

will you have some sort of creamy/peanutty sauce base to hold the chick? ground chicken, like larb?

[Teraesa22]

Thanks-I was thinking of using minced cooked chicken (not ground) blended with spicy thai peanut sauce that I make. The sauce has a tiny bit of mayo in it w/soy, crushed chili peppers, peanut butter etc.. I think it should hold the chicken together pretty well.