Seafood Made Simple: Savour the flavour of Irish seaweed

This weekend’s recipe is fabulous way to cook root vegetables. Encased in a seaweed-flavoured salt crust, this method both bakes and steams the vegetable while sealing in all its natural juices.

Seaweed & salt-baked swede. Pic: Chani Anderson

Seaweed, an often-forgotten food source that surrounds our island nation has been part of our food culture for centuries. 

A once-valued native sea vegetable, nowadays it’s mostly found in cosmetics, fertiliser, biomass for fuel and as a setting agent in some of our favourite jellies.