This spicy edamame recipe is ridiculously simple and tastes incredible, thanks to garlic, ginger, and a spicy chili sauce. This is truly one of my favorite edamame recipes! I can’t get enough.
You’ll often see steamed edamame with sea salt, but in this recipe, we kick up the flavors with lots of garlic, ginger, and a spicy chili sauce.
Edamame is easy to cook at home and fun to eat, and this is my favorite way to cook it.
Key Ingredients
- Edamame: These are young soybeans, which means the beans are soft and easy to eat. In this edamame recipe, we cook the beans inside their shell. You don’t eat the shell. I use my front teeth to scrape the beans out of the pod (they pop out easily). You can use shelled edamame in the recipe. I’ve included tips below the recipe.
- Garlic and ginger: I use a tablespoon each of minced garlic and ginger. If you don’t want to buy fresh ginger, look in the produce section of your grocery store for the tubes of ginger (sometimes you can also find frozen pureed ginger).
- Soy sauce, maple syrup, and toasted sesame oil: I love the simple sauce in this recipe. It’s a little salty from the soy sauce (or use tamari), sweet from maple syrup (or use honey), and toasty from the sesame oil.
- Chili sauce: I love Sambal Oelek. It’s made with crushed raw red chiles, a little vinegar, and salt. It’s sold in most grocery stores. Check the grocery aisle where you’d buy soy sauce, and it should be there. If you can’t find it, Sriracha or Gochujang are good alternatives.
How to Make Spicy Edamame
Of all the recipes I’ve tried, this is seriously my favorite way to cook edamame. It’s so flavorful. You’ll start with fresh or frozen edamame in their shells. Since it’s more available where we live, we use frozen.
You’ll steam or boil the edamame until the pods are bright green and heated through. I boil my edamame in the video.
Once cooked, we will toss them with our spicy ginger garlic sauce. I heat minced garlic and ginger in oil for a minute in a skillet on the stove. Now that the garlic and ginger are fragrant and have released their flavors into the oil, I stir in soy sauce, maple syrup, and chili sauce. Toss the sauce with your cooked edamame pods, and you are ready to dig in.
What to Serve with Spicy Edamame
I love this as a snack or appetizer. It’s excellent served next to other appetizers like egg rolls, spring rolls, and homemade crab Rangoon.
You can make it a complete meal by serving it next to rice, fried rice, homemade sushi, and stir fries like this broccoli chicken stir fry or this veggie stir fry. I also love it with chicken teriyaki!
Spicy Garlic Ginger Edamame
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This spicy garlic edamame is simple and tastes incredible. Cooking edamame at home is easy and takes minutes. In the recipe, we cook the edamame in their shells. You don’t eat the shells, though. To eat the beans inside, scrap them out of their shell using your front teeth. They pop out easily.
Watch Us Make the Recipe
You Will Need
1 pound fresh or frozen edamame in their pods
1 tablespoon avocado oil or other neutral oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
2 tablespoons light soy sauce or tamari
2 to 3 teaspoons pure maple syrup, sugar or honey
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1/2 to 1 tablespoon Sambal Oelek or Sriracha
Directions
- Cook Edamame
1To boil edamame, bring a large pot of water to a boil and add a teaspoon of salt. Add the edamame and return to a boil. Cook until bright green and heated through, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain.
2To microwave edamame, place the edamame in a microwave-safe dish with 1/4 cup of water and a pinch of salt. Partially cover the dish with a plate, then microwave on high until bright green and heated through. Depending on your microwave, this can take 1 to 5 minutes.
- Make the Spicy Sauce
1Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger. Cook until fragrant, but before they brown, 30 to 60 seconds.
2Remove the skillet from the heat, and then stir in the soy sauce, maple syrup, sesame oil, and chili sauce.
3Taste and adjust with additional maple syrup to balance out the soy sauce or more chili sauce to make it spicier.
4Toss the edamame with the sauce and serve.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Sambal Oelek is a chili paste made with crushed raw red chiles, a little vinegar, and salt. It’s sold in most grocery stores, just check the aisle where you’d buy soy sauce.
- Shelled edamame: You can toss cooked shelled edamame beans with the spicy sauce.
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
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this is delicious, and for those concerned about eating the shells or not, i reheated some the next day and probably over cooked it however i cut the peas into pieces and ate with some of the sauce on plain white rice – yum. this recipe has spice and heat and sweet so if you like that, you can’t go wrong here.