What is Shichimi?

Shichimi Togarashi Okumura uses these ingredients

Our Shichimi is made from chilli, orange peel, shiso, dried seaweed, sesame, hempseed and sansho

※Orange peel means dried skin of orange

We mix shichimi as your requests.

Shichi means seven in Japanese.

We say Shichimi meaning made from 7different types of Ingredients including chilli.

It is depends on shops or other brands as to how much ingredients are put in, so the flavour can vary

Dried chilli ground to powder is Ichimi

Ichi means one in Japanese. That’s why we call Ichimi

It is suitable for making foods more aromatic rather than spicy

Ichimi is suitable for making foods spicy

Keep dry and avoid moisture and lights,

Put it in sealing container and keep it in fridge or freezer.

Our packages is good quality and has zipper so it is very useful.

We recommend you to keep Shichimi and Sansho in fridge or freezer.

You can keep them unrefridgerated but they may start losing aroma

When the package is opened the aroma can escape quickly like steam from boiled water

That’s why we recommend to keep cold.

The ways of mixing for Shichimi’s is characterized by regions.

People from Kyoto tend to like aroma of sansho so lot’s of shops in Kyoto sell Shichimi with

additional sansho. We usually add extra sansho for Shichimi which will suite a variety of foods.

We can mix additional or reduce sansho as your request.
Mixing Shichimi