French

Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots)

Name: Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 carrots; 2 cups frozen peas; 1 small onion; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 cup vegetable broth; 1 sprig fresh thyme; 1 pinch sugar; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Colette @colette_lyon

Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 carrots
2 cups frozen peas
1 small onion
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup vegetable broth
1 sprig fresh thyme
1 pinch sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and cook the chopped onion over medium heat until soft, about 5 minutes.
Add the sliced carrots, the vegetable broth, the thyme, and the pinch of sugar, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes, until the carrots are almost tender.
Stir in the peas and cook uncovered for 5 more minutes, until the peas are bright green and heated through and most of the broth has cooked away.
Remove the thyme sprig and season with the salt and pepper.
Spoon into a warm dish alongside roast chicken or a simple pan-fried fillet.

Watch how to cook Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 150 kcal
Protein: 4 g
Carbs: 18 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 7 g
Sodium: 330 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Petits Pois Carottes (Peas and Carrots) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.