List of sushi and sashimi ingredients


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

Sushi styles

  • Chirashi-zushi is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetables/garnishes
  • Inari-zushi is a type of sushi served in a seasoned and fried pouch made of tofu and filled with sushi rice.
  • Maki-zushi consists of rice and other ingredients rolled together with a sheet of nori.
  • * Chu maki is a medium-sized rolled maki sushi usually containing several ingredients
  • * Futo maki is a thick rolled maki sushi containing multiple ingredients
  • * Gunkan maki 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
  • * Hoso maki is thinly rolled maki sushi with only one ingredient
  • * Kazari maki is a type of sushi designed frequently with colored rice into simple or complex shapes.
  • * Temaki is a cone-shaped maki sushi
  • Nigiri sushi consists of an oval-shaped ball of rice topped with a slice of another item
  • Oshi sushi, also known as hako-zushi, is formed by molding the rice and toppings in a rectangular box, then slicing into blocks.
  • Uramaki 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.

Wrappings

Eggs

Tamago : sweet egg omelette or custard, sometimes mixed with minced fish

Meats

Seafood

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

Finfish

The list below does not follow biological classification.

Inkfish

Others

Roe

is a mass of fish eggs:
[Image:Shirako gunkanmaki.jpg|thumb|right|Shirako (cod sperm) gunkanmaki-zushi]

Seaweed

Shellfish

Vegetables and fruit