Stock your kitchen with essential Japanese pantry ingredients to bring authentic flavors to your cooking!
Key items like sugar, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, miso (often called “sa-shi-su-se-so” condiments), and other important seasonings like sake and mirin, along with pantry staples like rice, dried noodles, kombu, katsuobushi, and various types of seaweed, form the foundation of many traditional Japanese dishes.
This guide will help you identify which ingredients to keep on hand, how to incorporate them into your cooking, and where to find them, so you can effortlessly recreate delicious Japanese meals right at home.
