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Steamed edamame cup

Between school and practice. Whole soybeans in the pod, nothing processed about them.

Servings
1
Total
5 min
Skill
Easy

Steps

  1. 1

    Straight from frozen, five minutes

    One cup of frozen edamame in the pod into boiling water for 5 minutes, or in a covered bowl in the microwave with a splash of water for 3. Do not thaw them first, they go soft and lose their snap.

    5:00

  2. 2

    Drain and salt while wet

    Drain and sprinkle with coarse salt straight away, while the pods are still steaming. The salt sticks to the wet pod and that is where the taste comes from, since you eat the beans and not the shell.

  3. 3

    Eat them by pulling the pod through your teeth

    The pod is not eaten. Squeeze or pull it through your teeth and the beans pop out. Worth showing once, because a kid handed a bowl of pods with no explanation just puts it down.

Coach's notes

  • About 18 g of protein a cup, which is more than most meat snacks the same size.
  • This is whole soy, and whole soy in the pod is nothing like the processed soy this site avoids. It is a bean, cooked, salted.
  • Good cold the next day, which makes it a soccer-bag snack as well as a kitchen one.
  • The plain pods with salt are the version most kids like. Chilli or garlic versions tend to come back untouched.