Edamame (Or Young Soybeans)
One of the items listed on this past week’s Email Produce Route that is creating quite a conversation is Edamame Beans, or young soybeans. Served frequently at Asian restaurants, these beans are sometimes boiled in the pods (as the recipe below indicates), but they can also be prepared a variety of ways.
The United States Department of Agriculture states that edamame are “a soybean that can be eaten fresh and is best known as a snack with a nutritional punch”.
Here’s what you’ll find in a half-cup serving of shelled edamame (or 1 1/8 cup edamame in the pods):
- 120 calories
- 9 grams fiber
- 2.5 grams fat
- 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat (0.3 grams plant omega-3 fatty acids)
- 0.5 gram monounsaturated fat
- 11 grams protein
- 13 grams carbohydrate
- 15 mg sodium
- 10% of the Daily Value for vitamin C
- 10% Daily Value for iron
- 8% Daily Value for vitamin A
- 4% Daily Value for calcium
Edamame Snack – very easy to prepare and enjoy
Ingredients
- edamame, as much as you would like to prepare (I use fresh, but frozen is easier to find and works well)
- salt
Directions
- If using fresh, strip all of the pods off of your soybean bunch and boil them whole in salted water for 5 minutes.
- (Start timing once the water returns to a boil) Drain the pods, liberally salt them, and then slip the seeds out of the pods directly into your mouth.
- Have a discard bowl handy for the shells.
- You may never want to eat potato chips again!
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Let us know how you choose to prepare this dish – we’d love to share your successes!
