Do you know “Warabi”?
During spring, you can find Warabi Plants called bracken in English in the wild in Japan. “Warabi” is one of the wild plants in Japan and edible.
People enjoy picking them and cook at home.
It’s a typical symbol of spring in Japan but you can not pick in the center of Tokyo. This is also one of the enjoyable things to live in countryside here 🙂
When I was helping farming, a Japanese squash farmer found “Warabi” in the field and after a few hours some locals were there and started to pick them.
So the Japanese Squash farmer took me a unknown wild field to pick them!
Wow! There are a lot of Warabi plants ! So I picked some and brought them home.
Warabi is edible but before eating you need to remove its toxic substance by boiling with water added baking powder. After that you need to soak them for a day. Then wash the Warabi well.
Without pretreating them, it’s harmful.
After getting bracken, I pretreated them and cooked simmered food. It was pretty yummy 🙂
Picking and having Warabi experience is also nice when you come here in Spring 😉
