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A sweet made from mashed green soybeans. The name is thought to come from zunda, a slurring of "bean pounding"; some say Masamune coined it.
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Zunda is a green paste made by mashing edamame (immature soybeans). It is also called zunda, jinda, jindan and nuta (the name zunda is used below). It is used in local dishes in the Yokote Basin in Akita Prefecture and southern Iwate Prefecture in the southern part of northern Tohoku, in Miyagi, Yamagata and Fukushima Prefectures in southern Tohoku, and in the northwest of Tochigi Prefecture in northern Kanto. It is traditionally used either as sweet zunda mochi or in salty dressed dishes.
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