Snap Pea Rice with fresh onions 新たま青豆ごはん

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The spring has ended, and the season of greens has arrived.

I write about the green plums in June every year as there are many plum trees in my town and June is the harvest time of the year. 

Another reason that I want to write about it is that I love the green plums, the fragrance of the ripen green plums is fantastic!

It melts my heart !

However the green plum trees do not bear the abundant of fruit each year.  They do only every other year.  
People call it “Naridoshi”, for the year of good harvest and this year is not Naridoshi.   I can find only a few pieces in a tree at this moment.

It is disappointing, but honestly to say I feel a kind of relief at the same time.  I will not be too busy for green plum works which includes umeboshi/salt preserved plum and syrup making.  I can spend my time for the other things. 

The plum is not the only green color food in June.

We have a few kinds of peas from May to June.

I want to introduce them to you today.

This is “Soramame”, fava beans or broad beans in English.

I like to split the pods and see the beans are nestling on the soft and spongy hollows.  They are like the babies resting on the cot.

 

Here are other types of peas…

They are “Greenpeasu” / Garden Peas, “Snapendo”/ Snap peas , “Sayaendo”/ Snow Peas, from left to right.

When they are opened…

 

The pods of Greenpeasu are too hard to eat, but the ones of latter two can be eaten as they turn to soft when they are cooked.

All of them are so tasty when they are fresh, so if you live in Japan, do not miss this moment to enjoy those peas as they will quickly disappear in a few weeks’ time.

I am sharing the recipe of “Shintama Aomame Gohan “ today.

It is the rice cooked with freshly harvested sweet and juicy onions and snap peas.  

These two vegetables collaborate so well and create the synergetic effect for tastier rice that makes me ask for Okawari, which means another bowl of rice.

Try and Enjoy!

 

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