Japanese cuisine

Japanese inspired cuisine bars, supplying ready-to-eat packaged sushi, sashimi, seaweed salads and desserts can be found within most British supermarkets these days. Sushi chefs hand prepare these convenient ready-to-eat products in front of the consumer daily and may even offer minimum customisation of some products where possible.

Queues are often visible around popular Ramen bars in London throughout the year, as well as Wagamama – the high street chain of Japanese inspired restaurants in the UK, who also serve the ever-popular Yaki Soba as well as other dishes including Ramen, Donburi, Teppanyaki & Japanese inspired Curry.

Japanese Inspired Ingredients

We have compiled a list of Japanese inspired ingredients, so whether you are thinking of heading to the kitchen or need a little help to innovate for product development, we are sure that there is something on this list to get the perfect result!

·       Bonito flakes

·       Brown rice vinegar

·       Cherry blossom

·       Cooking Saki

·       Dashi powder

·       Dried rice koji

·       Edamame beans

·       Furikake rice seasoning

·       Hijiki seaweed

·       Japanese mayonnaise

·       Kombu

·       Lotus root

·       Mirin

·       Miso 

·       Nori

·       Panko

·       Pickled daikon

·       Ponzu

·       Rayu chilli oil

·       Red miso paste

·       Roasted Black sesame seeds

·       Salted kelp

·       Sansho pepper

·       Sesame oil

·       Shichimi togarashi

·       Shiitake mushrooms

·       Shiso powder

·       Shiso syrup

·       Soy sauce

·       Tamari soya sauce

·       Teriyaki sauce

·       Tofu

·       Umeboshi plums

·       Wakame

·       Wasabi

·       White miso paste

·       White Sesame seeds

·       Yuzu

·       Yuzu kosho