8 weeks after planting your wasabi start you can begin harvesting Wasabi greens i.e. the leaves.

When you harvest wasabi greens make sure to leave the little leaf that is sprouting from the very top center of the plant.

Wasabi plants grow leaves year round and you can keep harvesting leaves every 6 -8 weeks and enjoy wasabi greens during the whole 15 months to two years that you are growing the plant stalks.

Wasabi greens can be eaten raw and you use them in cooking – they can be sautéed, juiced, or used raw in a salad!

One of Oregon Coast Wasabi’s customers has made a spanakopita using wasabi greens instead of spinach!

Stengels

The same 8 weeks applies to the leaf stalk or stem. When you harvest wasabi green make sure to also harvest the leaf stalk.

Wasabi leaf stalks are delicious! They are spicy and crunchy and you can eat them raw and use them in cooking. Think of them as thin spicy celery.

Just like the Wasabi greens You can sauté Wasabi leaf stalks, steam them, juice them, or simply snip them with kitchen shears and put them into your mashed potatoes for wonderful wasabi mashed potatoes!

{23 juni 2020}