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List of sushi and sashimi ingredients

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 of which are traditional and others contemporary.

Sushi styles

Packaged nigirizushi for sale at a Tokyo supermarket
California roll is a contemporary-style maki-zushi.
  • 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

Eggs

Tamagoyaki, also referred to as tamago

Meats

Seafood

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

Finfish

The list below does not follow biological classification.

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

Inkfish

Others

Sea cucumber (Namako)

Roe

Ikura gunkan maki sushi

Roe is a mass of fish eggs:

Shirako (cod sperm) gunkanmaki-zushi

Seaweed

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

Shellfish

Raw abalone meat
Salmon nigiri
Soft-shell crab on ice

Vegetables and fruit

A dish of tsukemono

See also

References

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