Details
A flavoured oil from Tsuno Foods, a rice bran oil producer in Wakayama. Rice bran oil made from 100% Japanese rice bran is blended with budo sansho, a rare and intensely aromatic Japanese pepper grown in the mountains along the Aridagawa River in Wakayama. The sansho is carefully ground in a stone mill to preserve its fragrance, slowly infused at low temperature, rested for about a week, then filled by hand, bottle by bottle.
It delivers a fresh, citrusy aroma and the tingling sensation unique to sansho. The clean-tasting rice bran oil base lets ingredients shine and helps the aroma last. It won an award of excellence in the product category at Food Action Nippon 2013 and the top prize in the oil category of the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association's Seasoning Championship 2018.
How to enjoy:
Drizzle over tofu with a pinch of salt, toss with steamed vegetables and salt, or use it like olive oil for dipping bread – the simpler the dish, the more the aroma stands out. A few drops also lift mapo tofu, ramen, gyoza dipping sauce, miso soup or sashimi. For something unexpected, try a drizzle over vanilla ice cream.
