Sugar Snap Peas with Ham and Mint

Name: Sugar Snap Peas with Ham and Mint
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon, table salt (optional); 1 pound, sugar snap peas (about 4 cups), stems snipped off and strings removed if needed; 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter; 1/2 cup, country ham or smoked ham, diced to 1/4 inch; 2 tablespoons, chopped fresh mint; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; , Ground black pepper

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1997

SERVES6

TIME25 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While casting around for the best sugar snap peas recipe, we found that sugar snaps benefit greatly from the addition of some salt as they cook and that the best way to add salt was to blanch them. Blanching produced peas with excellent fla...

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