German
Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots)
Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. 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.
Ingredients
- 3 carrots, diced small
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1/2 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 pinch black pepper
How to cook it
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and cook the carrots over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the vegetable broth and sugar, cover, and simmer for 6 minutes, until the carrots are almost tender.
- Stir in the frozen peas and cook uncovered for 3 minutes more, until the peas are heated through and the carrots are fully tender.
- Season with the salt and pepper.
- Scatter the parsley over the top and serve warm; this simple, mildly sweet vegetable is the default kid-friendly side in German homes.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Gemuesepfanne (Simple Vegetable Pan) |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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Cook this with your whole family
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