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Peas on Toast – Urine for a treat
This morning I heard my youngest say, ‘ can I have pee on toast?’ and as much as the thought of giving her a sodden piece of toasted sourdough amused me, I thought that she would find it inedible, and it could also get messy. So instead, for her breakfast I exchanged an ‘e’ for an ‘a’, pluralised it, and made her peas on toast.
A recipe for World Peace
Some might refer to this as smashed peas on toast, some might call it mashed peas on toast, it’s also known as crushed peas on toast. Personally, I don’t care too much how you pulverise your peas, I think the objective is to remove their annoying roundness so that you minimise your chances of finding an escaped dried out pea under your sofa (or in your beard) in a few months’ time. I’m going to refer to this as whirled peas on toast, because it’s such a lovely and aspirational pun.
Give Helch a Break
Peas on toast is such a versatile meal. It just works at any time of day – as does any other food I suppose depending on if you fancy it. So I’m not quite sure why I am still including this sentence, but it’s done now.
Peas on toast is also a really quick to make vegan recipe, and uses not many ingredients, so it is also a cheap vegan meal too.
They’re green, they are a plant, they are edible and by this logic peas are also a pretty healthy topping for toast, high in vitamins and other stuff that I can’t be bothered to research.
Finally, peas on toast tastes really good.
Peas on toast – the recipea
I have resisted making lots of crap-pea pea puns in the post, hope that you apeaciate it.
So now that the obligatory write up over with, here is a delicious peas on toast recipe for you.
Vegan Whirled Peas on Toast with Pesto
Recipe by Vegan DadCourse: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, SupperDifficulty: Easy, EasyPeasy
Prep time
10
minutes
Cooking time
5
minutes
Total time
15
minutes
At the minimum you will need:
Peas – frozen works well (obviously thaw them unless you like pea ice cream).
Bread and a way of turning it in to toast
If you want to do it properly though you will need more stuff, but not too much more. Get yourself:
Vegan pesto – You can make it yourself or just buy a jar.
Fresh Mint.
Anything else you add is up to you. I go for vegan butter, spring onion and olive oil, lots of black pepper and chilli seeds.
Ingredients
Sourdough or any bread you like – fancy bread works best though
Peas – Frozen or fresh if you want to spend way too long podding them
Mint – Fresh is preferable to dried mint, don’t be tempted to grate polo mints
Flat leaf parsley
Vegan pesto – Sacla do one in the UK
A squeeze of lemon juice
Black pepper
Extra virgin Olive Oil
Vegan butter
Spring Onions
Directions
- Defrost your peas and cook and make them hot. I microwave them in some water.
- While the peas are doing their thing, make some toast. I keep it the lighter side of brown. Just make the bread crispy.
- Spread the toast with a bit of the pesto.
- When they are ready, mash the peas up a bit. I have used a fork and a potato masher, both do the job well. If you are making this for someone else try to avoid mandibular mashing.
- Add a small bit of the vegan butter into the peas – or don’t – depends on if you like buttery peas.
- Put the mint into the peas and save some to put on top.
- Put the peas on the toast. Dress it with spring onions, black pepper, chilli seeds, whatever you want. Flat leaf parsey is a good addition too.
- Drip some of the olive oil on and squeeze on a bit of lemon juice.
Notes
- Vegan Mum addition- If you can be bothered, put the peas in a frying pan and fry them for a little bit. Don’t do them for too long or they go a weird green. – Personally I think this is a waste of time but in the interest of household harmony…..
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I'm a vegan. I'm a stay at home Dad, looking after and home educating 2 vegan girls . This site gives me a creative outlet that hopefully will give you some good stuff to read. I would love it if the information on this site helped you to become vegan, and made it easier for you to stay vegan. Being vegan is great for your health, great for the planet, and most importantly it's great for animals. Let me know if I can help you to become vegan.
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