Wasabi a delicious wholesome vegetable Pat Fitzgerald grows local to me
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2022-01-08

Wasabi’s distinct flavour is due to the presence of isothiocyanates, which are formed by the breakdown of glucosinolates by myrosinase enzymes. These molecules are also the principle bioactives associated with wasabi, and are known to have antioxidative, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and anti-mutagenic activities. 
Although grown mostly for its enlarged underground stem, wasabi leaves can also be used in many dishes. It is this part of the plant that Pat Fitzgerald of Beotanics based in County Kilkenny.
Mazuma Wasabi.
This variety was selected for Kilkenny Ireland, propagated, grown and harvested  in Kilkenny. The wasabi pieces are leaf and leaf petiole. The petioles are really delicious. This wasabi can be bought for general consumption from Helen Costelloe Cutting Vedge in Kilkenny.

Chop some of the leaves and leaf petioles into 1cm pieces, mixup with sea salt and leave overnight then lightly rinse off excess sea salt. Then soak in soy sauce in a sealed jar / container for a few days and use as a condiment with fish, meat or on cheese 😋
Pat can be found on twitter @PatFitzGerald 
His website 
http://beotanics.com/wasabi/




Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing.