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Sakura season comes to the kitchen with cherry blossom-shaped pasta

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Spruce up your spaghetti, sakura-style.

We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but if you didn’t go out to see the cherry blossoms last week, you sort of missed your chance. With the exception of northeastern Japan, where the sakura bloom later because of the colder climate, the majority of the country’s delicate pink flowers have now fluttered down to the ground, and come this weekend, they’ll have blown away in the wind.

But while it’s largely too late to see Japan’s favorite flower on the trees, you’ve still got plenty of time to see them on your plate with sakura pasta.

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Produced by Yamagata Prefecture-based noodle maker Tamaya Seimen, the colorful creation is a durum wheat pasta that gets its hue from mixing the grain with beets. The result is a cherry blossom-pink which the pasta retains even after cooking.

While the cherry blossoms are a decidedly Japanese motif, the pasta itself is Western-style, and so it doesn’t necessarily have to be incorporated into traditional Japanese dishes. Tamaya Seimen recommends adding it to soups and salads, and a single piece certainly does look lovely floating in a cup of cream-based broth.

蕪の真っ白なポタージュに
県産ビーツでピンク色に染まった桜型のパスタを浮かべて#山形　#玉谷製麺所 pic.twitter.com/GbiwRvktpb

— 薄荷 (@mintDEmint) December 27, 2015

Of course, sakura pasta doesn’t look out of place at all as part of a Japanese bento boxed lunch either.

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Tamaya Seimen’s sakura pasta cooks in about seven minutes, and can be ordered here through the company’s online store at a price of 400 yen (US$3.75) for a 100-gram (3.5-ounce) package. And don’t worry, it’s got a shelf life of one year, meaning buying enough to tide yourself over until the sakura bloom again next spring is a viable option.

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Top image: Tamaya Seimen (edited by RocketNews24)
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