Organic Yellow Peas (700g)

Organic Yellow Peas

This wonderful product is grown and cleaned by Tamarack Farms near Riding Mountain.  Yellow peas are a helpful addition to organic rotations because they pull enough nitrogen from the atmosphere for themselves to grow, and also leave extra nitrogen for crops in the following year.  We’re particularly fond of these little guys, because Tamarack Farms also grows naked oats for us, and the happiest oats seem to be grown as an intercrop with yellow peas!

These yellow peas are left whole, but with a little bit of a longer cook time they can be used in the same way as a yellow split pea.  We love them in rich wintery soups, or for whipping into a flavourful hummous, and because they’re whole, we also love tossing them into curries and stews, or anything we’d usually use chickpeas for!

Not to say that i’m not still on the look-out for Manitoba grown chickpeas, but they are much more difficult to grow in this part of the world (they like conditions that are a bit hotter and  bit dryer than what we usually experience).  Conventional (non-organic) farmers will usually spray chickpeas with fungicides several times in a growing season, and organic farmers struggle to keep their crop free of disease.  So yellow peas it is!  They do have a stronger flavour (they taste more like fresh peas, whereas chickpeas are more neutral), but they work in all the same ways.

Organic

Gluten Free

700g (the package may say 600g on it, but we over-fill them to 700g just for fun 🙂 )

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Our favourite yellow pea hummus recipe:

Directions:

Cover 1 cup peas with water and soak overnight, then simmer for 2 hours or until soft.  A pressure cooker or instant pot for 40 minutes will also do the trick.

Blend together:

Cooked yellow peas

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/4 cup tahini

2 tbsp olive or sunflower oil

3 cloves garlic

Dash of salt, pepper & paprika

 

That’s it that’s all!  Enjoy with veggies, crackers, or pita bread.