Violet Mustard

Violet mustard staple food that can be found in most homes around the world. It is known for being a mild flavor with a hint of spice kick in the after taste. When cooked the spice kick is brought to the front. It can be found just as the seeds that are then ground and sprinkled over dishes or while cooking. It can be crushed into a thick paste, with a mild oil to create a dip or sauce. The Violet mustard plant is a spindly bush that produces small bight blue and violet flowers twice a year. Once in the spring and again at the beginning of fall. After the flowers then comes the seed pods. These seed pods are a long oblong shape, roughly five inches long. Each pod contains up to two hundred small seeds. These pods are harvested and dried for two weeks. The pods are then broken open and the seeds removed. The color of these seeds ranges from a light lavender to a dark violet. When mixed, ground, or crushed it keeps the color. The violet mustard is found in dry scrub lands everywhere. In trying to cultivate it in other places it was found that the plant does not do well with humidity. Violet mustard was found by a merchant who came across it when he had to spend a winter in a small isolated mountain village. At every meal he had there was the Violet mustard. He asked about it and they told him all about it. They even gave him several seed pods. One of the village ladies taught him how to use it. When he got back from that trip he was excited to share this new food. Sadly many of his friends did not share his enthusiasm for it. That is when he decided to come up with a story of it being a delicacy that he had to smuggle out of the village. That is when his rich friends started to eat it. From there it took off and it was many years later that the truth came out that he did not have to smuggle it out of the village.
  There are many different variants Violet mustard. Different areas have created slightly different flavor profiles. The rich though tend to preferred the original from the village which has now grown because of the popularity of the Violet mustard.