How to boil delicious Edamame.
1.Before boiling, it puts salt on edamame and squeezes it.
Or salt is hung on Edamame and it puts on it for about 1 hour.
This is to make it clean green after having been boiled.
2.It boils by 4% of concentration (in 1l. of water, they are 40g of salt, and
250g of Edamame).
The salt used by 1. is also taken into calculation.
Salt is made into 4% of concentration on the whole.
3.It boils for 3 minutes to 5 minutes with the boiling hot water.
If it boils 5 minutes or more, amino acid will flow out.
4.Immediately after boiling, it cools with a fan.
If it cools by iced water, salt will be washed and it will flow.
It becomes less delicious.
5.4% has ideal salt concentration.
It is not necessary to add salt.
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