JAPAN [Kanagawa]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #30
NOODLES AND WRAPS
Freshly Milled Flour, Wholesome Flavor
2023.07.03
Each new day at Kaneko Seimen starts with milling the wheat grain.“There’s no doubt that freshly milled flour makes better noodles,” says President Takashi Kaneko. The milling machine is a model that leaves the bran on, making the company’s noodles and top-selling whole-wheat gyoza dumpling wraps richer in flavor and more nutritionally balanced than those made with refined flour.
“We introduced whole-wheat products when my father’s health failed,” says Kaneko. It was the 1970s, and interest in nutritive health was on the rise. The ingredients are simple: medium-strength, all-purpose flour from the no. 61 wheat cultivar used widely in Japan; Australian salt for the noodles and sea salt from Kochi prefecture for the wraps; and electrolyzed water from Nakai-machi’s underground springs.
◎Kaneko Seimen
994 Tanaka, Nakai-machi, Kanagawa
☎0465-81-0425
https://www.kanekoseimen.co.jp/
(The Cuisine Magazine /July 2017)
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