Snow peas.

Snow peas are flat, pale green pods with tiny peas you can just see through the skin. You eat the whole pod. It's thin, crisp and mildly sweet, and it cooks in a minute or two. In Thai and Chinese style home cooking they show up most often in a quick stir fry, where they add colour and crunch. Before cooking, snap off the stem end and pull away the string that runs along the edge.

Ways to use it

• Stir fry with garlic and oyster sauce, on their own or with shrimp, squid or pork.
• Drop them into noodle soup or a clear broth for the last minute.
• Add to a mixed vegetable stir fry with carrot, baby corn and mushrooms.
• Slice thinly on an angle and eat them raw in a salad.

Storing it

Keep them unwashed in a container lined with paper towels in the fridge drawer, and use them within a few days. Thin pods dry out and go limp faster than plump ones, so check them early. Rinse under running water just before cooking.

Where it comes from

Grown to certified organic standards. The certificate for each lot is shown when you trace your pack.

Every pack will carry a lot code. Enter it on the Trace your pack page and you will see the farms in that lot, the harvest date and the certificate.