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Goldcircle Mushrooms Ltd

An interview with Denise Stock

At Sysco, we champion local food producers who know their customers inside out, which is absolutely the case when it comes to Goldencircle Mushrooms LTD, a wonderful mushroom farm in Tiernaneill, Co. Monaghan. What once started as a small family-run farm in 1999, with eight mushroom-growing tunnels set up in the back garden, has now grown into a large and impressive business, which provides the nation with a seriously underrated and hugely versatile ingredient. The booming Irish farm is proud to have extended to 14 growing tunnels, with the addition of three joining farms, 240 employees and deliveries going out across the UK and Ireland seven days a week.

As Denise Stock, Sales and Marketing Manager at Goldencircle Mushrooms explains, there’s an abundance of cost-saving ways to utilise this nourishing vegetable, that chefs across the country need to know about.

For Denise, it starts with blending. By blending your mushrooms into your beef mince, creating a 1:3 ratio, you’re getting a lot more bang for your buck. “While you might be paying €9 for beef, you’re then only paying €3 for your mushrooms. So, if you’re blending it in, it’s cost-saving for every chef,” Denise explains.

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This veggie-loaded beef mince is not only cheaper to make, but it’s also a lot healthier for you. Not to mention, that it can be used in a multitude of delicious dishes, from pasta bolognese to cottage pie, from fiery nachos to homemade burgers, and so many more!

Goldencircle Mushrooms LTD provides Sysco with a wide variety of top tier mushrooms — from button to close cups, portobellos to large flat — all year round, thanks to their economical growing environment. Meaning, “They’re as good in January as they are in September,” Denise remarks.

These mushrooms are grown using a compost of the highest quality, Denise explains. “If you’re baking bread, it all comes down to using great flour. It’s the same for mushrooms. If you don’t have good compost, then you don’t have good mushrooms.”

As the largest grower in the Northway Producer Organisation, Goldencircle Mushrooms LTD utilise nearly half the compost available in the organisation's compost yard, which produces 1,100 tonnes of compost every week. “That’s where we get our consistently superior quality,” Denise notes.