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Edamame Salad (Easy Recipe)

Edamame salad is a colorful and nutritious salad that’s great for a premade lunch, picnic, or as a side salad. It has crunch and such a wonderful combination of flavors, it may just become your favorite salad!

edamame salad in a spoon

Originally published August 7, 2013.

They say necessity is the mother of invention, and when there was “nothing to eat,” this edamame salad was born.

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text box with quote: "Healthy, colorful, delicious, and easy to make… what more could you ask for?"- Frank

edamame salad overhead

This is one of those proverbs that has so much truth to it,  even in everyday living. How many of us have fashioned a tool out of some object that was never meant to be used in the new manner in which we used it? (I’ve been known to use chewing gum to repair a sandal more than once!)

edamame salad on a spoon

Check out this garden salad with a no-mix, real Italian dressing.

Simple, fresh garden salad

Well, my daughter wanted a salad the other day and we were short of many salad ingredients, including lettuce.

edamame beans

So she got creative and used what was in the fridge and pantry, and I must say, it was so good, I had to share it with you! As with all recipes, please use the best quality ingredients that you can obtain.

edamame salad in a bowl

Edamame Salad

recipe by Denisa W.                Makes 2 servings    

FULL PRINTABLE RECIPE BELOW

Ingredients

soybeans, carrots, tomatoes, celery and onion on a wooden board

Directions~

adding tomatoes to the bowl

Put all of the ingredients into a large bowl.

adding oil to the veg

Drizzle with the extra virgin olive oil.

grinding salt onto the vegetables

Next, salt the salad (you’ll taste it in a minute, so remember that you can always add more, but you can’t remove the salt.)

vinegar being added

Then add the vinegar. The same advice goes for the vinegar (but I love strong vinegar, so I’m usually a bit heavy handed with it.) 

tossing the edamame salad

Toss everything together with a large spoon to mix well.

spoonful of soybeans with veg

Be sure to taste and adjust the dressing to your taste, mixing again before doing a final taste test.

edamame salad

Don’t be afraid to adjust a couple of times (or more) if you’re new to this authentic Italian way of dressing salad. The more you use it, the better you’ll become at judging amounts of oil, salt and vinegar.

A garden salad using a typical Italian dressing.

garden salad

Finally, enjoy this easy edamame salad! Denisa and I suggest eating it with some fresh, crusty bread.

spoonful of edamame salad

Looking for more simple and delicious salad inspiration? Try these!

Traditional Italian panzanella 

Panzanella: Italian Bread and Tomato Salad

Tuna, egg and tomato salad

tomato tuna egg salad

Beet and goat cheese salad

beet goat cheese salad close up

If you try the edamame salad, then try this quinoa, fennel and pomegranate salad from Cocoa & Lavender for another fresh option!

homemade edamame salad in a bowl
The original edamame salad my daughter made.

 

edamame black eyed pea salad

Edamame black eyed pea salad is great for ringing in the new year with good luck!

edamame salad overhead social

Edamame Salad

Servings: 2
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
A tasty salad made with edamame and various vegetables.
5 from 13 votes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup edamame beans
  • 2 carrots chopped, preferably organic
  • 1 stalk celery chopped, preferably organic
  • ¼ cup Vidalia onion chopped
  • 1 tomato large, cut into pieces, or a few cherry tomatoes, cut in half
  • 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil (good quality, like Olio Piro, or Laudemio)
  • 1 tsp red wine vinegar or more, to taste
  • tsp salt as needed (Kosher or sea salt)

Instructions

  • Put all of the ingredients into a large bowl
  • Drizzle with the extra virgin olive oil, salt to taste, then add the vinegar.
  • Toss and enjoy with fresh crusty bread.

Notes

  • Customize this salad to your liking by adding or omitting vegetables.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 | Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Sodium: 209mg | Potassium: 752mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 10793IU | Vitamin C: 14mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 3mg

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5 from 13 votes (13 ratings without comment)

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21 Comments

  1. Funny- looking at making a list for the farmers market today and found I needed romaine- but saw this and decided to skip it!
    I have everything else for this ‘I have nothing’ salad.
    I have three bags of Edamame ! Perfect!!
    Thank You

    1. I love it when things like this happen, that seem like it’s just meant to be. I never ignore those “signs” and have had incredible opportunities and experiences from this mindset! Hope you like the salad as much as we do!

  2. I just love how vibrantly fresh and healthy this salad recipe is! I almost always have edamame on hand, so it would be a breeze to throw this together! Mmmmm … and what a great suggestion to serve with some wonderfully crusty bread, too! Definitely pinning this to remember (and share)!