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
- Nori : dried seaweed
- Rice paper
- Salmon skin
- Thinly sliced sheets of cucumber
- Usuyaki-tamago: thinly cooked sweet omelette or custard
- Yuba: "tofu skin" or "soybean skin", a thin film derived from soybeans
Eggs
Tamago : sweet egg omelette or custard, sometimes mixed with minced fish- Quail eggs
Meats
- Basashi/sakura niku : Raw horse, nicknamed for its bright pink color
- Gyusashi : Raw beef
- Shikasashi : Raw venison
- Torisashi : Raw chicken
Seafood
All seafoods in this list are served raw unless otherwise specified.Finfish
The list below does not follow biological classification.- Ainame : fat greenling
- Aji : horse mackerel|Japanese jack mackerel]
- Akami : red meat fish
- Akamutsu : blackthroat seaperch
- Aka-yagara : red cornetfish
- Amadai : tilefish
- Anago : saltwater eel, conger eel
- Ankimo : monkfish liver
- Ayu : sweetfish
- Buri : adult yellowtail
- * Hamachi : young yellowtail
- Dojo : Japanese loach
- Ei : skate
- Engawa : often referred as 'fluke fin', the chewy part of fluke, a flatfish
- Fugu : puffer fish
- Funa : crucian carp
- Gindara : sablefish
- Hamo : daggertooth pike conger, a variety of eel, less popular than unagi and anago, and known for its fatty texture
- Hata : grouper
- Hatahata : sandfish
- Hikari-mono : blue-backed fish, various kinds of "shiny" fish
- Hiramasa : yellowtail amberjack
- Hirame : fluke, a type of flounder
- Hokke : Okhotsk atka mackerel
- Hoshigarei : spotted halibut
- Inada : very young yellowtail
- Isake : trumpeter
- Isaki : striped pigfish
- Ishigarei : stone flounder
- Iwana : charr
- Iwashi : sardine
- Kajiki : swordfish
- * Makajiki : blue marlin
- * Mekajiki : swordfish
- : greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili
- Karei : flatfish
- Katsuo : skipjack tuna
- Kawahagi : Filefish
- Kibinago : banded blue sprat, or silver-stripe round herring
- Kisu : sillago
- Kochi : flathead
- Kohada : Japanese gizzard shad
- * Shinko : very young gizzard shad
- * Konoshiro : fully matured gizzard shad
- Kue : longtooth grouper
- Madai : red sea bream
- Maguro : Thunnus
- * Chūtoro : medium-fat bluefin tuna belly
- * Kuro : bluefin tuna, the fish itself
- * Kihada : yellowfin tuna
- * Mebachi : bigeye tuna, the most widely distributed fish in Japan
- * Meji : young Pacific bluefin tuna
- * Ōtoro : fattiest portion of bluefin tuna belly
- * Shiro maguro, Binnaga/Bincho : albacore or "white" tuna
- * Toro : fatty bluefin tuna belly
- Makogarei : marbled flounder
- Mamakari : sprat
- Matou-dai : John Dory
- Masu : Trout
- Mejina : Girella
- Nijimasu : Rainbow trout
- Nishin : Herring
- Noresore : baby anago
- Ohyou : halibut
- Okoze : Okoze stonefish
- Saba : chub mackerel or blue mackerel Served raw or marinated
- Sake, Shake : Salmon
- Sanma : Pacific saury or mackerel pike
- Sawara : Spanish mackerel
- Sayori : halfbeak
- Shima-aji : white trevally
- Shirauo : whitebait
- Shiromi seasonal "white meat" fish
- Suzuki : sea bass
- * Seigo : young sea bass
- Tachiuo : beltfish
- Tai : seabream snapper
- * Madai : red sea bream
- * Kasugo : young sea bream
- * Kurodai : snapper
- * Ibodai : Japanese butterfish
- * Kinmedai : splendid alfonsino
- Tara : Cod
- Unagi : freshwater eel, often broiled with a sweet sauce. The preparation of unagi is referred to as kabayaki.
Inkfish
- Aori ika : Bigfin reef squid
- Hotaru ika : Firefly squid
- Ika : Cuttlefish or squid, served raw or cooked
- Sumi ika : Japanese spineless cuttlefish
- Tako : Octopus
- Yari ika : Spear squid
Others
- Hoya : Sea pineapple, an Ascidian
- Kamesashi : Sea turtle sashimi
- Kurage : Jellyfish
- Kujira : Whale
- Namako : Sea [cucumber (food)|Sea cucumber]
- Shiokara : Seasoned, salted entrails; frequently squid
- Hitode : Starfish
- Uni: gonad of sea urchin; may come in different colors
Roe
is a mass of fish eggs:- Caviar : roe of sturgeon
- Ikura : Salmon roe
- Sujiko : Salmon roe
- Kazunoko : Herring roe
- Masago : Smelt roe
- Mentaiko : Pollock roe seasoned to have a spicy flavor
- Shirako : Milt
- Tarako : Alaska pollock roe
- Tobiko : roe of Flying fish
Seaweed
Shellfish
- Akagai : Ark shell
- Ama-ebi : raw pink shrimp Pandalus borealis
- Aoyagi : Trough shell
- Asari : Japanese carpet shell
- Awabi : Abalone
- Botan-ebi : Botan shrimp
- Dungeness crab
- Ebi : boiled or raw shrimp
- Hamaguri : Clam, Meretrix lusoria
- Himejako : Giant clam
- Himo : "fringe" around an Akagai
- Hokkigai, Hokki : Surf clam
- Hotategai, Hotate : Scallop
- Ise-ebi : a spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus
- Kaibashira, Hashira : valve muscles of scallop or shellfish
- Kani : Crab, also refers to imitation crab
- Kani-miso : Crab offal paste
- Kaki : Oyster
- Kegani : hairy crab
- Kuruma-ebi : Prawn species Marsupenaeus japonicus
- Makigai : Conch
- Mategai : Razor clam
- Matsubagani : Champagne crab or regionally, Snow crab
- Mirugai : Geoduck clam
- Sazae : Horned turban shell
- Shako : Mantis shrimp or "Squilla"
- Shiba ebi : Grey prawn
- Shima ebi : Morotoge shrimp
- Soft-shell crab
- Tarabagani : King crab
- Tairagai : Pen-shell clam
- Torigai : Cockle
- Tsubugai : Whelk
- Zuwaigani, also regionally marketed as matsubagani: Snow crab
Vegetables and fruit
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Carrot : a julienne of carrot
- Cucumber : a julienne of cucumber
- Eggplant : served in small slices, coated with oil
- Ginger : most often used is pickled ginger: beni shōga and gari
- Gobō : Burdock root
- Kaiware : Daikon radish sprouts
- Kanpyō : dried gourd
- Kappamaki : a makizushi made of cucumber and named after the Japanese water spirit who loves cucumber
- Konnyaku : Cake made from the corm of the Konjac plant
- Nattō : fermented soybeans
- Negi : Japanese bunching onion
- Oshinko : Takuan or other pickled vegetable
- Shiitake : dried shiitake mushrooms, served roasted or simmered
- Takuan : pickled daikon radish
- Tofu : Soybean curd
- Tsukemono : various pickled vegetables
- Umeboshi : pickled plum
- Wasabi : paste of wasabi root
- Yam :
- Yuba : Tofu skin