Step Up Your Kitchen Game with Locally Grown and Milled Flour Power
Local grinds.
‘Ulu
The Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative offers whole and peeled ‘ulu flour the whole, which includes skin and all, is slightly darker in appearance and has more of ‘ulu’s sweet, fruity fragrance with a hint of roasted banana.
How to use it: Replace up to half of all-purpose flour in banana bread, pancakes and steamed bao.
eatbreadfruit.com. (Also available in smaller quantities at Kōkua Market.)
Cornmeal
Nalo Orange corn, developed in where else Waimānalo, was bred for disease resistance and the darkest orange kernels. What that means for your kitchen: a coarse cornmeal with a sunny marigold hue, nutty notes and more intense corn flavor than your average supermarket brands.