Fresh, Crisp and Tender - Tastes just like a Pea.
What do I do with them?
Having a sweet and tender taste, these yummy tendrils are excellent to eat both raw or cooked. They work as a healthy, fresh addition to salads and can take the place of lettuce or other greens - and they are also delicious added to a smoothie. The tendrils cook up just like baby spinach and they making a quick easy stir fry. Just heat a little oil, grated garlic (& ginger) and cook 2-3 mins, turn off heat, toss in pea shoots, drizzle with a little Soy Sauce (we like Tamari - which is a wheat-free soy sauce). Eat & Enjoy.
General Nutrition & Benefits.
Pea shoots are a good source of carbohydrates and protein, as well as Vitamin A which helps to keep an immune system and eyes healthy. They also contain Vitamin C and E. Just 1 cup of pea shoots provides about 7x the daily value of vitamin C as blueberries and 4x the value of vitamin A as tomatoes. They are also an excellent source of vitamin K, providing 66% of your daily value from 1 cup. Pea Shoots also are great source for folate, which helps produce and maintain cells and protects against DNA damage. And are packed with antioxidants and phytonutrients - which supports your body’s inflammation system and immune system.
Know How We Grow.
Our Pea Shoot seeds are grown in the Willamette Valley, in Oregon.
We start the growing process of our Pea Shoots by first soaking our pea seeds in water for 24 hours. After the seeds have soaked, we rinse them and expose them to fresh air, for another day. This is called "priming", the seeds are allowed to dry and as they dry, they start to germinate.
Often times a tap root starts to form and poke out of the seed - this is the time when we plant them in growing flats filled with our own blend of our finished chicken compost (Thanks to the Hens & Pip) and locally washed sand. We don't use any fertilizers, wetting agents, mined peat moss, mined perlite, vermiculite, hydroponics solutions or hydroponic grow pads.
The seeds are then sprinkled on top of the soil instead of underneath like you would normally plant a seedling. The flats are then stacked one on top of each other for four days.
This does two things; it forces their roots down into the soil from the pressure of the flat on top & it causes the seedling to grow a thick long crunchy stem from the weight and lack of light.
After fours days the shoots are un-stacked and placed under LED growing lights until the seedlings form.
Once they are ready, we cut them by hand and package them.
