What Do You Do With Soybeans?

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Last month, we got a huge bunch of soybeans from the CSA.  Soybeans are also known as edamame (ed-eh-mommay for those who like me have pronunciation issues.  No comments from quinoa crowd, please).

Soybeans.  Leafy, green, super-healthy, fiber, protein, and I didn’t have any clue what to do with them.  In fact, I had never even seen them au naturel.  Here they are in all their leafy splendor:

This is how we got them, on these enormous 4 foot long branches, dangling with soy-pods.  I convinced Molly that pulling the pods off would be as fun as, oh, I don’t know, whitewashing a fence, and we had a pile of pods in no time.

First we tried one plain and raw.  It was, well, beany.  Kinda crunchy, a mild, buttery bean.

Research said to cook.  Boil in some salted water until tender.  So that was next.  I wasn’t sure how tender to go, since I wasn’t sure what we were going to do with them.  I figured a salad for the first batch and some dip for the second.  Once they were boiled for a bit, separating the beans from the pods was easy (although the pods are edible too.)

 

The beans were mixed with:

- Some slightly cooked corn, stripped from the cob
- Black beans (from a shiny, metal cylinder)
- Some halved sun golds and red grape tomatoes
- Lime juice, avocado oil, basil, salt and pepper

It was delicious. 

If I was really hard-core, I’d have some miso, fermented black beans or tofu to show up, but that’s it….just salad :)

So… any brilliant ideas for soybeans?

Comments

[Amanda]

Um, I think your salad sounds better than anything I could come up with. Actually, I think I have only eaten edamame one way: Boiled, as you say,(for what, 5-6 minutes or so?) and heavily salted. Pile them on a plate and pull them out of the pods with your teeth as you eat them. You get a lot of the salty goodness from the outside of the pods as you do this. Better than french fries. Probably this is not news to you and you are trying to find something more interesting to do with them. Still, sometimes the simplest way is best.

[Melissa]

I'm with Amanda, I like eating them plain with a bit of salt. Popping them out and making a lovely salad with them, like you did, also sounds fantastic. I've never had them any other way.

I've also never seen them au naturel. Very cool.

I convinced Molly that pulling the pods off would be as fun as, oh, I don’t know, whitewashing a fence

*Giggling*

[Rebecca (Foodie With Family)]

Edamame is one of our favorite snacks 'round here. We eat our way through 2 lbs at a time. Our favorite is just boiled and salted as Amanda and Melissa both said. I would add that we put coarse salt on it and occasionally a little cracked black pepper. Mmmmm...

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