What to make with frozen peas

Ingredients

• beef mince — 500g
• puff pastry — 4 sheets
• beef stock — 1 cup
• tomato sauce — 2 tbsp
• plain flour — 1 tbsp
• frozen peas — 2 cups

Method

1. Brown mince, stir in flour, then stock and tomato sauce.
2. Simmer 15 min until thick, cool slightly.
3. Line pie tins or ramekins with pastry, fill with mince.
4. Top with a pastry lid, crimp edges, cut a steam vent.
5. Bake 200°C 20-25 min until pastry is puffed and golden.
6. Boil peas, serve alongside.

Ingredients

• beef mince — 600g
• potatoes — 800g
• carrot — 2
• onion — 1
• beef stock — 300ml
• frozen peas — 1 cup
• butter — 40g

Method

1. Brown mince with onion and carrot.
2. Add stock, simmer 15 min until thickened.
3. Boil and mash potatoes with butter.
4. Layer mince in a dish, top with mash.
5. Bake 200°C 20 min until golden on top.
6. Boil peas, serve alongside.

Ingredients

• fish fillets — 4
• frozen chips — 750g
• frozen peas — 2 cups
• lemon — 1

Method

1. Oven chips per packet.
2. Bake or pan-fry fish.
3. Boil peas, serve with lemon.

Ingredients

• white fish — 500g
• salmon — 300g
• prawns — 200g
• potatoes — 1kg
• milk — 2 cups
• plain flour — 3 tbsp
• butter — 60g
• cheddar — 100g grated
• frozen peas — 1 cup

Method

1. Boil and mash potatoes with a little of the butter and milk.
2. Gently poach fish and salmon in the remaining milk 8 min, remove and flake, reserve the milk.
3. Make a white sauce with butter, flour and the reserved poaching milk.
4. Fold flaked fish, prawns and peas through the sauce.
5. Transfer to a baking dish, top with mash and grated cheese.
6. Bake 200°C 25-30 min until golden and bubbling.
7. Rest 5 min before serving.

Ingredients

• prawns — 400g
• chorizo — 2
• rice — 2 cups
• chicken stock — 1L
• capsicum — 1
• frozen peas — 1 cup
• smoked paprika — 2 tsp

Method

1. Fry chorizo, add rice and paprika.
2. Add stock gradually, no stirring.
3. Add prawns and peas last 8 min.

Ingredients

• salmon — 4 fillets
• potatoes — 800g
• frozen peas — 2 cups
• butter — 50g
• lemon — 1

Method

1. Boil and mash potatoes with butter.
2. Pan-fry salmon 3-4 min a side.
3. Boil peas.
4. Serve with lemon.

Ingredients

• sausages — 8
• potatoes — 800g
• gravy powder — 2 tbsp
• frozen peas — 2 cups
• butter — 50g

Method

1. Fry sausages.
2. Boil and mash potatoes.
3. Make gravy, boil peas.
4. Plate up.

Ingredients

• lamb mince — 500g
• potatoes — 1kg
• carrot — 2
• onion — 1
• frozen peas — 1 cup
• beef stock — 300ml
• butter — 50g

Method

1. Brown mince with veg, add stock, simmer.
2. Top with buttery mash.
3. Bake 200°C 25 min.

Ingredients

• sausages — 8
• plain flour — 1 cup
• eggs — 2
• milk — 1 cup
• gravy powder — 2 tbsp
• frozen peas — 2 cups

Method

1. Whisk flour, eggs and milk to a smooth batter, rest 15 min.
2. Brown sausages in a hot ovenproof pan, then pour batter around them.
3. Bake 220°C 25-30 min until puffed and golden — don't open the oven early.
4. Make gravy, boil peas.
5. Serve straight from the pan with gravy and peas.

Ingredients

• eggs — 8
• zucchini — 1
• capsicum — 1
• feta — 100g
• frozen peas — 1 cup

Method

1. Sauté veg.
2. Pour over whisked eggs, crumble feta.
3. Oven 180°C 20 min until set.

Ingredients

• potatoes — 400g
• cauliflower — 1/2 head
• frozen peas — 1 cup
• coconut cream — 400ml tin
• garam masala — 2 tsp
• cashews — 1/4 cup
• rice — 2 cups

Method

1. Sauté garam masala briefly to release aroma.
2. Add potatoes and cauliflower, stir to coat.
3. Add coconut cream and a splash of water, simmer 15 min until vegetables are tender.
4. Stir through peas and cashews, warm through.
5. Cook rice, serve curry over the top.