Fresh peas and home grown mint with pasta- minimal ingredients and a perfect recipe for the summer time.
I meant to post this a long time back, for I made this long time back when spring just walked in and I was starting to see the fresh peas in the market. They always remind me of the back home when I was little and I would sit and shell the peas with my mom in the kitchen. We never used frozen peas, we never saw them. It took a long time to shell them, but it was sheer joy. It was one to one time with my ma, little chit chats and also some fresh sweet peas munching time.
Fresh peas are in still in the market! They are beautiful. If you cannot get hold of the fresh peas, the frozen ones will work just find. Today I have not written any particular amount for the ingredients- except for the compound butter. If there are any leftovers for the butter, save it in the refrigerator. Please do adapt it to your taste.
Pasta with Lemon-Mint Butter and Peas
Ingredients:
- Pasta – any kind you prefer – I used spaghetti
- 1 teaspoon oil and salt to cook the pasta
- lemon-mint butter – Recipe Below
- small sweet onion, diced
- peas, shelled – a few fistful
- salt
Lemon – Mint Butter
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 4 tablespoons fresh mint leaves, cut into thin strips
- 1/2 teaspoon dried mint, crushed
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- salt
Preparation:
To Prepare the Lemon and Mint Butter:In a bowl combine butter, lemon juice, mint (fresh and dried), salt and paprika and beat/whisk until well blended. Chill and reserve for later use.
Preparing the Pasta:Bring a pot of water to a boil; add salt and the teaspoon oil. Add the pasta in the boiling water. Cook according to package instructions/cook al dente. Drain the pasta and save some of the liquid.
Melt some of the mint butter in a pan over medium heat. Toss in the onion and cook for a couple of minutes until slightly wilted. Add the peas to the onions, and add a few tablespoons of the cooking liquid.
Toss the cooked pasta with the butter,onions, and peas over medium high heat for only a couple of minutes. Drizzle some more of the mint butter and serve right away.
Weekend Herb Blogging #235 hosted by Haalo at Cook Almost Anything.
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Nice pics…this is indeed gud for summer….bookmarked
love any pasta in any form and this one looks easy yet delicious. love this idea of lemon-mint-butter.
Soma, that is a great recipe. Simple yet so flavorful. And yes, I too remember shelling peas when in season and snacking on the tender ones. Now, all I use is frozen ones all year round.
The editor in me is itching to tell you that you omitted to write the butter in the lemon mint butter preparation. No offense.
Corrected and updated. thank you Jaya 😉
Very spring-like and delightful!
Cheers,
Rosa
Delicious. So simple and tasty, love the fresh peas.
A lovely fresh pasta dish. I love eating peas straight from the pod.
Delicious Pasta looks very yummy. This recipe is very superb. I have try it as soon as possible. Beautiful Pictures. Thanks.
I love such simple flavors, I am actually starting to miss this kind of food after almost a month in India 🙂 Love, love, love that fresh pea picture.
This is a wonderful recipe Soma … am so bored of the regular pasta with tomato anyway … I do not actually like the tang of tomato in any pasta. Absolutely love this. Kichu penne pore ache … ei bhabei banabo … but I’ll have to use frozen peas now. 🙂
A refreshing pasta dish! Great Photography!
Looks so beautiful with the pink in the background. I love such simple, yet flavorful pasta dishes, never tried it with mint though.
Yumm!! Nothing like fresh peas in pasta!!
Soma, you’re quite right. We never saw a frozen peas in India but used to with fresh peas only. Here I use frozen peas only! 🙁 I remember the first time, the ads of frozen peas in India, it was publicized by T N Sheshan! 🙂
I love the simple idea of this pasta. Would love to try it soon. Thanks for sharing! I can’t take my eyes off from the 3rd pic. 🙂
Hi Soma
Peas are my favourite vegetables.The way you have blended it with pasta has turned out to be a great dish. Even the clicks are so appealing. Jodi partam haaath bariye plate ta screen theke uthiye nitam. Looks mouthwatering.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Love peas. The dish sounds delicious and love the taste of mint although I prefer to serve it with a mint pesto instead.
This is the kind of pasta I love. Simple and refreshing…
This sounds raelly refreshing with the mint and lemon! Delicious!
lemon-herb butter is such a good idea. We make just butter pasta.
Okay this is dinner. Will post a pic on FB 🙂
A perfect Spring recipe — light, healthy, and simple. This is exactly how I like to prepare pasta when it’s warm out. I love your pod photo, it’s so pretty. =)
This is yummy! I dont like pasta much, ‘coz of the overwhelming taste of tomato, but this sure looks very very delectable. Love your photos!
A delightful spring pasta!
Sounds delicious! I actually really enjoy shelling peas, and I actually have mint growing well in my garden this year. (Mint usually dies in my garden for some reason.) I have to try this!
Your photos are gorgeous! I cannot wait to try this using Kamut Khorasan Wheat pasta (our family fav) and I just planted an herb garden so I actually have some fresh mint too! Yay 🙂
I love the mint-peas combo!That looks yummy! I might have to give it a try soon.
Simple and elegant presentation Soma! Pasta is one of my favorites and this combo looks yumm!
what a beautiful blog you have! Cooking is an art, and you are blessed with this culinary art 🙂
The idea of the lemon-mint butter is very nice, I like it…so you can have a ready flavored butter for everything you want…
I love the combination of mint and peas together. I find it to be really refreshing. This dish looks gorgeous! A celebration of the season.
I like the addition of lemon to balance up everything.
Wow, this looks absotely delicious – have never thought of putting peas into pasta – the mint must add a lovely flavour too…
This sounds delicious. We’ve often put mint with peas but I hadn’t thought of adding a bit of lemon.
Thanks for the delightful recipe ! Dron just adored it !!! He licked his plate till all peas were gone !
I made this for lunch yesterday and it was delicious! Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Thanks for letting me know. I am happy that you enjoyed!
beautiful photos as always…..and lovely dish !
Peas and mint go so well together … this is such a simple recipe but I can taste the flavours now and I’ve not started cooking!
This dish looks easy enough for a non-cook like me. I think I might try it out and surprise the wife.
I made this last week and it was great. Thanks for the blog please do more. The photos are fantastic too.
Pastas are my favorite, infact a big fan of Italian cuisine. I found the recipe really interesting and soothing for summers.
Can’t wait to try my hands on this.
The pictures are awesome.
Ardent Smith
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