Naniwa traditional vegetables
The lifeblood of a dish is the ingredients. Senshu is famous for producing water eggplants, onions, and taro. Kawachi is famous for Senryo eggplants, red zi, broad beans, Ishikawa potatoes, and shrimp potatoes.
In the early Showa period, they grew Western vegetables such as celery, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and red cabbage, and shipped them to Tokyo.
There are still many ancient ingredients and traditional dishes throughout the Kansai region that can be said to be the origins of Japanese food culture, and one representative ingredient (vegetable) that originated in Osaka is the "traditional Naniwa vegetables."
There are 18 traditional vegetables grown in Osaka, including Kema cucumber, Suita Jiko, Osaka Shirona, and Katsuma pumpkin.
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