Boiled Edamame

Name: Boiled Edamame
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1/2 a catty Fresh Edamame; 1 star anise; 2 pieces Bay leaf; piece Cinnamon; Some salt

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4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

2

Edamame, also known as vegetable soybean, is an immature and greenish-green soybean crop, and it is a vegetable soybean that is specially eaten with tender pods. Edamame is an annual crop with thick stems and fine hairs. Its pods are flat and there are fine hairs on the pods, so they are called edamame. Edamame is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and enters the spleen and large intestine meridian. It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and broadening the middle, moisturizing dryness and eliminating water, clearing heat and detoxification, and replenishing qi. Indications of malnutrition and diarrhea, abdominal distension and leanness, pregnancy poisoning, sore carbuncle swelling poison, traumatic bleeding, etc. Edamame has high nutritional value. It has the effects of improving human metabolism, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, increasing appetite, preventing osteoporosis, beauty, weight loss, and blood lipid reduction. It is very suitable for adults and children. "