Fancy Toast with Pea Shoots Recipe

Here’s a pea shoots recipe for when you find them at the farmer’s market! This fancy toast features a chickpea mash, cream cheese, and pea shoots.

There’s nothing more delightful than bright and happy pea shoots after a long, gray winter. We found these at the winter farmer’s market a few weeks ago, where the farmer happily cut off a bunch of the shoots growing out of a small flat. But how to make a pea shoots recipe? We went home, Googled a bit, and came up with this one. Keep reading for our pea shoots recipe!

What are pea shoots?

First of all: what are pea shoots? Pea shoots are simply baby pea plants that are cut before they grow into actual peas. The fun part is that they taste like a bite of concentrated spring; just like a pea, but more delicate and leafy. You can use them in salads, on stir fries, on sandwiches, and more. You can also grow them in your garden: simply harvest the pea plants while they look like tender shoots, before they grow into pea plants.

How to make this pea shoots recipe

What we decided on for our pea shoots was…fancy toast! Here we’ve made fancy toast or a tartine – French for “open faced sandwich”. This pea shoots recipe combines the tender green shoots with a delicious Greek yogurt cheese from our farmer’s market (from Trader’s Point Creamery here in Indianapolis). We also added a chickpea mash for some extra protein — which was actually quite good itself! If you can’t find yogurt cheese, you can use any type of cream cheese, or even make homemade yogurt cheese (it’s actually quite easy – here’s our recipe for labneh / yogurt cheese).

This fancy toast with pea shoots recipe was so tasty: it was the perfect simple lunch! You could also use it as an appetizer before a dinner party, or a filling snack. Have you made a pea shoots we should know about? Let us know if you’re inspired to try them out.

Looking for another pea shoots recipe?

We’ve made a few pea shoots recipes: here are some of our favorite ways to use pea shoots!

• In a sandwich: Instead of greens or sprouts, use pea shoots as a sandwich filling, like in this Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich
• In a salad: Pea shoots are perfect in a salad with tender greens to add a sweet pop of flavor, like in thisPea Shoot Salad with Arugula & Parmesan

Looking for lunch ideas?

Outside of this fancy toast with pea shoots recipe, here are a few other lunch ideas:

• Hummus or garlic herb white bean dip, veggies and crackers, cheese slices
• Famous Tomato Dip with Grilled Bread
• Easy Chickpea Salad Sandwich
  
• Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich
  
• Hummus and Veggie Roll Ups
• Ricotta & White Bean Fancy Toast
• Chickpea Salad with pita or crackers
  
• Creamy Vegan Tomato Soup and multigrain bread
  
• Turmeric Egg Avo Toast
  
• Vegan Italian Pasta Salad

This recipe is…

This recipe is vegetarian. For vegan, plant-based and dairy-free, omit the yogurt spread; consider using cashew cream or vegan mayo.

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