Cheap Eats: Lemony Sugar Snap Peas

This Cheap Eats recipe was inspired by a comment left by Marybeth over at Making Cents of It All.
She mentioned that she loves sugar snap peas sauteed with garlic and olive oil. That got my creative juices flowing. I made some alterations and threw it all over brown rice, creating a recipe that can be used as a side or main dish.

I hope you enjoy it!

Lemony Sugar Snap Peas

Ingredients: 

1 pound sugar snap peas

1 cup finely diced yellow or white onion

2 cloves minced garlic

water 

zest of 1 lemon

3-4 cups of cooked brown rice 

1 tsp. onion powder 

1/2 tsp. garlic powder 

1 tsp. your favorite salt-free seasoning

juice of 1 lemon 

Directions: 

 Cook rice according to directions. Add onion powder, garlic powder, and salt-free seasoning to the rice while it is still hot, to infuse the rice with the seasoning flavors. Set aside and keep warm. Saute onion and garlic in a pan with just enough water to keep them from burning. When the onion and garlic are softened and translucent, add 1/4 - 1/2 cup water, pea pods and lemon zest.  You want enough water to cook the pea pods, but when they are done you should only have a little liquid left in the pan. Lower heat and cook just until the pea pods turn bright green (about 5 minutes).  Remove from heat and immediately add to the warm rice. Top with the juice of 1 lemon. Serve! 

Hint: This recipe is great added to a bed of greens and drizzled with a good balsamic vinegar for a main dish salad!

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