Sesame Snow Peas with Red Onion and Citrus

Tonight we are going out to dinner, which means we won’t be having a “healthy dinner”. Knowing this I decided we would eat uber healthy before dinner to moderate the net effect of dinner. This is a quick veggie dish that took under 10 minutes start to finish. Here is what we had.

Sesame Snow Peas with Red Onion and Citrus
Serves 2

Ingredients:

1 red onion, peeled and thinly sliced top to bottom
2 tablespoon water
¾ pound snow peas. stems removed
2 cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
1 inch fresh ginger, thinly sliced and julienned
1 tablespoon mirin (sweet rice vinegar)
1 tablespoon liquid aminos (or reduced sodium soy sauce)
1 tangerine, peeled and seeded
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
toasted sesame seed oil – optional

Directions:

Water sauté the onion until it begins to soften, and then add the snow peas, garlic, ginger mirin, liquid aminos and cook for a few minutes to warm the snow peas. When the ingredients are evenly heated through turn off the heat and add the citrus segments and sesame seeds and stir to coat. If desired you can drizzle a little toasted sesame oil on the dish when you serve it.

Nutritional information (does not include the optional sesame oil):

Amount Per Serving
Calories - 158.4
Calories From Fat (14%) - 22.79

Total Fat - 2.92g
Saturated Fat - 0.44g
Cholesterol - 0mg
Sodium - 492.87mg
Potassium - 554mg
Total Carbohydrates - 31.28g
Fiber - 7.1g
Sugar - 12.22g
Protein - 6.98g

Comments:

The flavor of this dish is not overpowering but definitely not bland. I liked the little bit of sweetness the tangerines added. It would have been great over brown rice (if we weren’t going out tonight). Each serving of this dish contains approximately 2,200IU of vitamin A, 115mg of vitamin C, 150mg of calcium, 4.8mg of iron, 85mcg of folate, 40mcg of vitamin K, 135mg of phosphorus, and 70mg of magnesium. I thought the nutrition on this was rather amazing given the amount of calories.

Unrelated note:

I need to get moving and get ready for dinner tonight. We are going to DC this evening. With the “winter precipitation” we had overnight we are leaving earlier than usual.

I hope you all have a happy and healthy new year. Be back tomorrow.