edamame

/ˌɛdəˈmɑmeɪ/

Other forms: edamames

Edamame are young, green soybeans. In Japanese restaurants, edamame are served steaming hot, sprinkled with salt, still inside their pods.

Half the fun of eating edamame is squeezing the tasty little beans out of the pod into your mouth. They can also be incorporated in dishes, taking the place of peas or other beans. In Japan, there's a different name for shelled soybeans: mukimame. Edamame means "stem beans" or "twig beans" in Japanese, for the fact that they were traditionally sold in markets still attached to their stems.

Definitions of edamame

1. noun

   fresh green soybeans steamed or boiled, served in their pods