Premium 80% buckwheat ‘Nihachi’ soba

Description

Soba noodles made by hand in Japan, using buckwheat and wheat flour from Hokkaido. No grain from Thailand or the USA, as is often the case. In other words, to drive the point home, we’re offering you 100% Japanese soba. That’s rare enough to be worth mentioning.

These soba are known as “nihachi” or “two-eight”: they are made from two parts wheat flour to eight parts buckwheat flour. This ratio, which dates back to the time when Tokyo was called Edo, is sometimes considered the most refined, as it gives the buckwheat flavour pride of place, while the wheat and its gluten give the noodles a pleasant texture.

How to use:

Cook in boiling water for 4 and a half minutes, then rinse with water. These soba noodles can be eaten cold with tsuyu sauce (zaru soba), in a hot broth (kake soba), or even with their own cooking water, according to the very traditional soba yu recipe. However, there’s nothing to stop you doing whatever you like with them.

Storage:

Protect from heat and moisture.

Ingredients:

Buckwheat flour, wheat flour, salt.

Shelf life:

24 months