Cercis siliquastrum - seed pods edibility ?

Hello everyone,
My 3 judas trees bear quite well this spring.
Their seed pods are described to be edible, however, they still taste very tart and bitter.
This does not improve after blanching them in boiling water.
Do you know when if and when it should improve, or have a recipe for them ?

For context, the trees are feeding, shading and misting my annual vegetable garden, and they only get weed mulch and what the sky gives them (and we have had less than 20 mm of rain per square meter since mid-february).

Have a nice day,
Oliver

here people like to eat the flowers (I know the entire tree is supposed to be edible, but I haven't heard of anyone eating the beans), and i know you're supposed to be careful to avoid all green parts because they're crazy bitter. Perhaps that is just the nature of the green parts?

We have Cercis canadensis, or Eastern redbud here. The flavor sounds similar.We have used our green seedpods sauteed with onions as a topping for white rice. We have also dried the green pods, ground them up real fine and added them to bread and cookies, replacing 1/4 of the flour in the recipe.

We have also chopped them up and added to soups. This is not a great plan unless you're getting really hungry.

For fresh eating, do be sure to harvest before the side edge of the pods forms a THICK 'string'. Very unpleasant when it's hard.

Back when I researched this the were a couple 1 post wonders out on the web using dried, shelled seeds like lentils... There's not enough info out there for us to experiment with that. All my uses have been with young green pods, Not the mature pods.

Aha! I found my 'recipie'.

I have used the green pods in the same way as snow peas. Use before the "string" (like on green beans) is thick and hardened. Note, they do not taste like snowpeas. They have a nifty citrus taste. It's good stir fried with onions, garlic and peppers, with bitter wilted greens, served over rice.

From this post.

There was indeed a very short time window in which they lost their bitterness and were still tender.
Here, it lasted less than a week.
Have a nice evening,
Oliver