Sugar peas and carrots in lime butter

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 ounces Carrots
4 ounces Sugar snap peas
2 teaspoons Diet spread
2 Garlic cloves; crushed, optional
1 tablespoon Lime juice
½ teaspoon Brown sugar
Or honey
Water
Lime zest; finely julienned

Directions

Peel or scrub carrots and cut into thin (⅛") diagonal slices. Wash and string the peas. Heat margarine in a large frying pan. Add garlic, cook over low heat for 1 minute. Add juice and sugar or honey. Cook stirring until sugar has completely dissolved. Add oeas add carrots; add up to 3 tablespoons of water or as needed to cook vegetables until tender (2 to 4 minutes). Garnish with lime zest. Serve immediately. [35 cals, 1g fat] VARIATION: Omit garlic and cook in the microwave on high with a spray or two of 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' for 2 minutes. Remove. Add juice and honey and a little water. Microwave on high another 30 seconds. Serve garnished with zest.

This is one of our favorite vegetable combinations because of the color and citrus. Excellent with poultry; good too with meatloaf or macaroni and cheese. --kitpath@... 11/98

Recipe by: Step by Step Vegetable Cookbook (1995: Crescent) Posted to EAT-LF Digest by kitpath@... on Nov 24, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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