List of sushi and sashimi ingredients

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Sushi plate (盛り合わせ) with sashimi to the left and a Western-style inside-out roll (rice outside) to the right.

There are many sushi and sashimi ingredients, some traditional and some contemporary.

Sushi styles[edit]

Packaged nigirizushi for sale at a Tokyo supermarket
California roll is a contemporary style maki-zushi (roll) containing cucumber, cooked crab meat or an imitation, and avocado that is made inside-out (Uramaki) with rice on the outside and an outer layer of tobiko or sesame seeds, shown here with a similar maki-zushi with raw tuna, which is darker
Main article: Sushi
  • Chirashi-zushi (ちらし寿司, scattered sushi) is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetables/garnishes (also refers to barazushi)[1][2][3]
  • Inari-zushi (稲荷寿司, fried tofu pouch) is a type of sushi served in a seasoned and fried pouch made of tofu and filled with sushi rice.[1][3]
  • Maki-zushi (巻き寿司, rolled sushi) consists of rice and other ingredients rolled together with a sheet of nori.[4][2][3]
    • Chu maki (中巻き, medium roll) is a medium-sized rolled maki sushi usually containing several ingredients[2]
    • Futo maki (太巻き, large or fat roll) is a thick rolled maki sushi containing multiple ingredients[4][1][2][3]
    • Gunkan maki (軍艦巻, battleship roll) is a type of sushi consisting of a rice ball wrapped in a sheet of nori which extends in a cylinder upward to hold a loose topping such as fish eggs[1][5][2][3]
    • Hoso maki (細巻き, thin roll) is thinly rolled maki sushi with only one ingredient[4][1][2][3]
    • Kazari maki (飾り巻き寿司, flower or decorative roll) is a type of sushi designed frequently with colored rice into simple or complex shapes.[4][3]
    • Temaki (手巻き, hand roll) is a cone-shaped maki sushi[4][1][2][3]
  • Nigiri sushi (握り寿司, hand-formed sushi) consists of an oval-shaped ball of rice topped with a slice of another item[1][2][3][5]
  • Oshi sushi (押し寿司, "pressed sushi"), also known as hako-zushi (箱寿司, "box sushi"), is formed by molding the rice and toppings in a rectangular box, then slicing into blocks.[4][1][2][3]
  • Uramaki (うらまき, inside-out roll) is a contemporary style of Maki-zushi that is described as a roll that is inside out—with the rice on the outside—and has an outer layer of tobiko or sesame seeds.[4]

Wrappings[edit]

Eggs[edit]

Tamagoyaki, also referred to as tamago

Meats[edit]

Seafood[edit]

All seafoods in this list are served raw unless otherwise specified.

Finfish[edit]

The list below does not follow biological classification.

Engawa (meat close to the fin of a flounder) nigirizushi
Various cuts of tuna including akami, otoro and chutoro prepared as sashimi
Unagi nigiri sushi

Inkfish[edit]

Others[edit]

Sea cucumber (Namako)

Roe[edit]

Ikura gunkan maki sushi

Roe is a mass of fish eggs:

Shirako (cod sperm) gunkanmaki-zushi

Seaweed[edit]

  • Kombu (昆布): Kelp, many preparations[3][21]
  • Wakame (若布): Edible seaweed, sea mustard

Shellfish[edit]

Raw abalone meat
Salmon nigiri
Soft-shell crab on ice

Vegetables/Fruit[edit]

A dish of tsukemono

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  20. ^ Hui, Yiu H. (2006). "Caviar and Fish Roe". Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering. CRC Press. pp. 161–12. ISBN 0-8493-9849-5.
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  23. ^ "Winter Crab: Kani Miso, Kani Nabe, Kani Zosui". KyotoFoodie.com. Kyoto Foodie. 24 January 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

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