Cream Cheese-Stuffed Pea Pods Recipe

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Our Test Kitchen combines sweet, crunchy pea pods with tangy cream cheese for this one-of-a-kind appetizer. The cute, little “boats” are just enough for two, but the recipe is easy to increase for guests.

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Cream Cheese-Stuffed Pea Pods Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 15 min.

Yield: 8 Servings

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Ingredients

1/4 cup spreadable chive and onion cream cheese
4 teaspoons thinly sliced green onion
Dash salt
Dash crushed red pepper flakes
8 fresh sugar snap peas

Directions

In a small bowl, combine the cream cheese, onion, salt and pepper flakes. With a sharp knife, split peas along the straight edge. Spoon or pipe 1 tablespoon cream cheese mixture into each pea pod. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 8 appetizers.

Nutritional Facts 1 appetizer equals 31 calories, 3 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 8 mg cholesterol, 53 mg sodium, 1 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchange: 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Cream Cheese-Stuffed Pea Pods in Cooking for 2 Spring 2008, p54