Just rinsed, raw and chilled with a good dressing, sesame or ginger or whatever you like, experiment. Mmmm good. They are also great lightly sauteed with water chestnuts, almonds and a little soy sauce..
Raw, sun warmed straight out of the garden, rinsed under the garden hose, or rubbed clean on your shirt tail. Add a couple fresh pulled carrots and radishes and you don’t have to go in for lunch. At least that is the way we did it as kids.
I like them raw and chilled. I usually buy them in cellophane packages, and I’ll clip off a top and bottom (diagonally opposite) corner and run water through to rinse them. After they’ve chilled well in the refrigerator, I just fill a bowl with them and sprinkle with salt. Great snack.
I remove the strings and usually eat raw. If I am making noodles with peanut sesame dressing, I throw the peas into the boiling water with the noodles for the last two minutes only.
I like them raw, as others have mentioned. If I’m going to cook them, it will be with mushrooms and soy sauce, served on rice. I could eat that three night a week.
You know, they’re really easy to grow. If you buy a seed packet of them and start them in April or so, depending on your weather, you can graze on them for about three full months. You can plant them in a normal-sized flowerpot. They’ll sprawl some but they aren’t ugly.