Country
What Japan cooks with
30 ingredients from the guide appear in the 39 catalogued dishes of Japan, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of Japan
A–Z
Every ingredient in Japan’s dishes

Béchamel
1 dish here

Beef
1 dish here

Bread
1 dish here

Broad bean
1 dish here

Cabbage
1 dish here

Cheese
1 dish here

Chicken
2 dishes here

Egg
4 dishes here

Flour
1 dish here

Garlic chives
2 dishes here

Katsuobushi
1 dish here

Kinako
1 dish here

Liver
1 dish here

Mackerel
1 dish here

Mayonnaise
2 dishes here

Milk
1 dish here

Miso
3 dishes here

Mung bean sprout
1 dish here

Noodle
2 dishes here

Octopus
1 dish here

Pork
3 dishes here

Rice
3 dishes here

Sausage
1 dish here

Soba
1 dish here

Spaghetti
1 dish here

Tofu
1 dish here

Tomato
1 dish here

Udon
1 dish here

Welsh onion
2 dishes here

Wheat flour
3 dishes here
Photo credits for this page (30)
Miso: D-Kuru · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic chives: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Welsh onion: Miyuki Meinaka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Noodle: Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Béchamel: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread: Bake Across Europe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cabbage: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Katsuobushi: Sakurai Midori · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kinako: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Liver: Poupou l'quourouce · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mackerel: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mung bean sprout: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Octopus: Beeblebrox · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sausage: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Soba: City Foodsters · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Spaghetti: Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tofu: DryPot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Udon: Gatorfan252525 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons