I need more vegetables in my life!  I think every once in a while, I just need to say that out loud (or at least on the internet) 🙂 I’m such a boring dinner-maker sometimes– keeping it simple with a protein, salad and maybe rice or something like that.  I’m hoping to turn into SuperMom very soon and make a fabulous main dish and equally interesting side dishes for dinner every night.  Ha!  Yeah, that’s never going to happen. But this Three Pea Stir Fry is one side dish that I’ll be repeating.  I loved that it has three different textures, and it is so darn colorful, too!
My husband and I were completely crazy about all of the peas in this dish- snow peas, sugar snap peas and… peas!  My son tried to be picky and picked through to search for the peas only.  What is it with kids, anyway?  They act like you’re torturing them when you ask them to try not-so-familiar vegetables. If I had this whole parenting thing to do all over again, I’d give my very small child all kinds of vegetables ALL THE TIME.  I guess most of them don’t really realize what they’re missing until they get older. In this dish, the peas are lightly stir fried in sesame oil and are flavored with garlic, ginger, soy sauce and a splash of red pepper.  Then it’s finished off with a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds.  It makes for a great side dish to an Asian meal.
Here are a few more Asian vegetable side dishes you may enjoy:
Sichuan Eggplant by Simply Recipes Cucumber Salad by RecipeGirl Spicy Asian Stir Fried Swiss Chard by Kalyn’s Kitchen Warm Asian Vegetable Slaw by Family Style Food Asian Cauliflower Fried Rice by Nom Nom Paleo
