Sweet and Salty Edamame

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Two weeks ago, my husband and I went to one of our favorite restaurants, Bonefish Grill.  We left the kids home and just went out to enjoy ourselves. The food is so good and so consistant that when we’re going to splurge, we usually go there.  It’s not too, too expensive, but it’s not cheap either – although the food is so worth it.

I decided to have the steamed edamame appetizer and it was so good that I ate the entire order (Jim might have had four, I ate the rest) and I could not stop thinking about it. It was obviously sprinkled with salt and sugar, but something was different and I couldn’t figure out what… lemon?  vanilla?  No.  There was something though.  So, I asked the waitress and she told me that no, there was nothing but salt and sugar on it. However, the sugar was sugar in the raw. Aha!

I just made this and the kids and I devoured it.

• 1 package frozen edamame in the pod
• 2.5 Tablespoons kosher salt (divided)
• 1 Tablespoon sugar in the raw

Put up a pot of water, add two tablespoons of salt and bring to a boil. Add the edamame and cook according to package directions (although I like mine a little less cooked so I shorten the cooking time)

Using a spider, or a large slotted spoon, transfer the edamame to a large mixing bowl.  Sprinkle the salt and sugar in the bowl and toss well (do this while it’s still piping hot).

Transfer to the serving bowl.

The kids and I devoured this whole bowl.  It’s such a satisfying delicious snack.  Haley said she would have liked it a little sweeter, I thought the sweetness was perfect. It’s very salty, which we like, so if you’re not as big a fan, lighten the salt when you get to the mixing point.  The best way to tell that would be to taste one when it came out of the water. The only thing that would have made it better was if the edamame was fresh instead of frozen – but I can barely afford the frozen, so we’ll manage.

Edited:  It has come to my attention that some people might not know how to eat this.  Hold the pod with the seams on the top and bottom.  Hold between your teeth and gently bite down to pop the pod. Scrape your teeth along the pod so that the beans pop into your mouth and discard the pod. You get all the flavor from the pod, but only eat the tender bean inside. Yum.

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