Trader Joe’s SHELLED EDAMAME (soybeans)

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Trader Joe’s sells two versions of EDAMAME (Soy Beans). One kind is unshelled, still in the pod, and these, unshelled ones.

Both kinds are excellent, really tasty and are super healthy legumes. You probably should add edamame to your diet if they are not already on it. Soy beans are a super food.

Maybe you first encountered these first (in the shell) in a Japanese restaurant? A waiter put a bowl of kind of weird looking fuzzy green pods on the table? Someone told you to nibble on them and to suck the beans out of the pods. Served this way edamame are typical “bar snacks” you would find in a restaurant or Izakaya (pub).

Soybeans and all legumes are good to have in one’s diet. As well as very being quite DELICIOUS. They have a taste a bit like peas but are a little nuttier and earthier. I like them in both versions, in the shell and these out of the shell, so I usually buy a bag of both to have in the freezer. As a quick side dish you can’t go wrong with Edamame with a pinch of salt and some butter. Yummy! TJ’s frozen Shelled Edamame are very convenient. These have been cooked, so just need warming up.

Useful as a side dish, the way you would serve frozen peas, or for adding to a dish, such as a rice dish*, again exactly as one might add green peas, which I frequently do.

When I add edamame, say to rice in the last 3 minutes, I don’t cook them first as the bag suggests (they are already cooked in fact). I just put them in a colander, rinse them till they don’t look frozen and then toss them in the pot of rice (or whatever) for maybe 3-4 minutes. Or use them, as an addition to your favorite recipe.

Soy Beans contain Lots of protein (9 gr in a half a cup!), plus lots of fiber, vitamins and basically everything that is Soy Good for you. Maybe one of the healthiest things you can eat. A 12 oz. bag of the shelled version is $1.99 which is less than in a Asian specialty store where you normally find these goodies. And about $1.69 (1 lb) in the shell, which are of course great to serve people to nibble on and suck out of the shells in the traditional style. Maybe the kids would like those, as they are very hands on, play with your food.

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