Skip to main content

Edamame at Hypercity

Will my neighborhood grocery store never stop shocking me. Here I was just walking past the section with packaged vegetables and herbs. I noticed something from the corner of my eye and did a quick double take. Labeled green soybeans, sitting pretty on the counter were edamame. I love the salted steamed beans to death. And because you couldn't buy them in India so far, I would spend half my lunches and dinners on trips outside India eating plates of plain salted edamame in overpriced Japanese restaurants.

But now, I can just bring home this packet, pop it in the microwave with a tbsp of water, sprinkle some coarse salt after a couple of minutes. And have the bestest guilt free snack on earth.

I wonder what they will come up with next. Globe Artichokes?

PS: If you have noticed the lack of pictures around here recently, that's because I dropped and broke my camera. Making do with my cellphone until I find a replacement.
Labels:

Comments

Sunshinemom said…
I will have to tell my bhajiwala about that! Maybe he will get them for me when he hears there is competition:)
November 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Miri said…
I am making a trip to Mumbai next week - where are these beans to be found? do tell!
November 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Malar Gandhi said…
Hi, thats awful to lose a camera...hmm, photo is not so important to me, juat the recipe:)

Hmm, b/n I too like endamame to the core:)
November 22, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Spice said…
I hope it wasn't the excitement of finding "endamame" in your local store, that made u drop your camera....hope u can get it fixed...
November 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Unknown said…
Bombay is really improving! We get SO MUCH STUFF here now :)
November 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM
The Purple Foodie said…
Are you kidding me? Where, oh where?! =) PS: hope you're having a fab time in Amritsar.
November 29, 2009 at 4:42 PM
The Purple Foodie said…
oh, and bangalore is far far ahead when it comes to "exotic" ingredients. I found artichokes there!
November 29, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Anushruti said…
oh yes! Bangalore has most of the exotic stuff. Its a dream!
December 16, 2009 at 8:44 AM
good food launches said…
we at amalgam specialty foods are importing this variety from japan and hopefully we will be able to popularize this as healthy bar snack in high end restaurants and hotels.. imagine seasoning it with KEYA salad seasonings !!
June 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I've found my perfect cookie

It's a bite sized cookie, with flavors of a pie, shape of a croissant and a pretty, pretty name. It's Rugelach. I first heard of this cookie when it became the baking pick for Tuesdays with Dorrie a couple of months back. The looks, the concept - everything was fascinating. And I've dreamed of making this cookie ever since. I ditched hundreds of recipes floating around and went straight to the master. It's Dorie Greenspan's recipe that I used, and ain't I glad I got it so perfect the very first time. So what's rugelach? It's cream-cheese pastry dough, rolled then cut into wedges, spread with jam and sugar and fillings of choice, rolled into crescents and baked. First the dough. Dorie did it in her processor, but I just went and did it by hand. Put 100 gms cream cheese and 100 gms butter out of the fridge until they were soft but still cold. Added both to a cup of plain flour (I omitted the salt because I use salted butter). Rubbed the flour and but...
10 comments
Read more

Mystery Fruit

This only happened a few times every year, just when the rainy season kicked in. A street hawker will come by, straw basket on head. He will yell "kaul chapni" and I will run out to buy a bundle of these. Stuck together like flowers, they looked like a bouquet. Every hole contains a little fruit. You break out the package, peel the tiny fruit that pops out and eat it. Done slowly, it can take you an hour to eat an head. Or did, when I was about 12 years old. That was the last time I saw this fruit. I've never seen it again, didn't even know what it was called or where it came from. Three weeks back, Vikram Doctor wrote about a store in Khar that sells Sindhi foods. He described this fruit and I knew it came from my vivid childhood memories. And finally, I knew we were talking about lotus fruit. Now talk about coincidences. Last weekend, I was passing by a lane in Bandra and for the first time in many, many years I saw the straw basket filled with my mytery fru...
14 comments
Read more

Of Brun and Bun Maska

There is more to Bombay's breads than the pao that goes into pao bhaji and vada pao. There's Brun. and there's bun. We will get there. First, you have to get to know the city's Parsis. And Iranis, who are also Zoroastrians, but came to city a little later, in the late 19th or early 20th century. And when they came, they brought with them these little cafes that dot the city. I am no expert on Irani chai cafes. And I can't tell you whether Yazdani Bakery will provide you the best experience or Kyani's. But I can tell you a few things you need to ignore when you get there. Appearances don't matter; so ignore the fact that the marble/glass top tables and the wooden chairs look a bit dilapidated. Also ignore the rundown look the place sports. Instead, get yourself settled. And order a bun muska. This one's familiar to you as a first cousin of the soft hamburger bun. It's similar, but just a tad bit sweeter. Maska, of course, is the generous dollop o...
13 comments
Read more