Edamame is harvested at a totally different stage of development of the plant and has a much different composition than the dried beans including higher protein content and lower carbohydrates. As the pea matures it turns nutrients received from the plant and pod into carbohydrates over its lifecycle to (in theory) power germination and regrowth, but of course we eat that lol.
Thank you, TIL!
So if you make a flour, or rather a paste I guess, from the green soybeans you can capture that? Interesting, I’ll have to try it!
Of course , it’s very important to cook soybeans fully before eating them. But according to the box instructions it won’t take as long as wheat flour pasta, about 5 minutes.
Off to the farmer’s market!
This has reminded me that there used to be a brand called Modern Table which made vegan macaroni and cheese using red lentil flour for the pasta. It was delicious. I don’t even know what the “cheese” was made out of, but it was also delicious. Better than any other mac and cheese I have had. But of course, as so many niche products do, they quickly disappeared from shelves.
I’m not even vegan, and I still miss that mac and cheese.
Red-lentil pastas are probably in your grocery store near the regular pasta. Not sure about macaroni but I’ve definitely seen shells. As for the sauce, a lot of vegan cheese recipes use “nutritional yeast” for cheesy flavor so maybe adding a little to regular mac’ncheese sauce would hit that profile you remember
