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 )
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.
Maki-zushi (巻き寿司, rolled sushi ) consists of rice and other ingredients rolled together with a sheet of nori .
Chu maki (中巻き, medium roll ) is a medium-sized rolled maki sushi usually containing several ingredients
Futo maki (太巻き, large or fat roll ) is a thick rolled maki sushi containing multiple ingredients
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
Hoso maki (細巻き, thin roll ) is thinly rolled maki sushi with only one ingredient
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.
Temaki (手巻き, hand roll ) is a cone-shaped maki sushi
Nigiri sushi (握り寿司, hand-formed sushi ) consists of an oval-shaped ball of rice topped with a slice of another item
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.
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 .
Wrappings
Nori (海苔): dried seaweed (often used to wrap or belt makizushi or gunkan)
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
Meats
Basashi/sakura niku (馬刺し/桜肉): Raw horse , nicknamed for its bright pink color
Gyusashi (牛刺し): Raw beef
Shikasashi (鹿刺し): Raw venison
Torisashi (鳥刺し): Raw chicken
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
Dojo (ドジョウ): Japanese loach
Ei (エイ): skate
Engawa (縁側): often referred as 'fluke fin', the chewy part of fluke , a flatfish
Fugu (河豚): puffer fish
Funa (フナ): crucian carp
Gindara (銀鱈): sablefish
Hamo (鱧, はも): daggertooth pike conger , a variety of eel, less popular than unagi and anago, and known for its fatty texture
Hata (ハタ): grouper
Hatahata (鰰): sandfish
Hikari-mono (光り物): blue-backed fish , various kinds of "shiny" (silvery scales) fish
Hiramasa (平政, 平柾): yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi )
Hirame (平目, 鮃): fluke , a type of flounder
Hokke (ホッケ): Okhotsk atka mackerel
Hoshigarei (干鰈): spotted halibut
Inada (鰍): very young yellowtail
Isake (いさけ): trumpeter
Isaki (伊佐木, いさき): striped pigfish
Ishigarei (石鰈): stone flounder
Iwana (イワナ): charr
Iwashi (鰯): sardine
Kajiki (梶木, 舵木, 旗魚): swordfish
Kanpachi (間八): greater amberjack , Seriola dumerili
Karei (鰈): flatfish
Katsuo (鰹, かつお): skipjack tuna
Kawahagi (皮剥ぎ): Filefish
Kibinago (黍魚子): banded blue sprat , or silver-stripe round herring
Kisu (鱚): sillago
Kochi (こち): flathead
Kohada (小鰭): Japanese gizzard shad
Various cuts of tuna including akami, ōtoro and chūtoro prepared as sashimi
Unagi nigiri sushi
Roe
Ikura gunkan maki sushi
Roe is a mass of fish eggs:
Shirako (cod sperm) gunkanmaki-zushi
Seaweed
Kombu (昆布): Kelp, many preparations
Wakame (若布): Edible seaweed, sea mustard
Shellfish
Raw abalone meat
Salmon nigiri
Soft-shell crab on ice
Akagai (赤貝): Ark shell
Ama-ebi (甘海老): raw pink shrimp Pandalus borealis
Aoyagi (青柳): Trough shell
Asari (あさり): Japanese carpet shell
Awabi (鮑): Abalone
Botan-ebi (ぼたんえび): Botan shrimp
Dungeness crab
Ebi (海老): boiled or raw shrimp
Hamaguri (蛤): Clam , Meretrix lusoria
Himejako (ヒメジャコ): Giant clam
Himo (紐): "fringe" around an Akagai
Hokkigai , Hokki (ホッキ貝, 北寄貝): Surf clam
Hotategai, Hotate (帆立貝, 海扇): Scallop
Ise-ebi (伊勢海老): a spiny lobster , Panulirus japonicus
Kaibashira (貝柱), Hashira (柱): valve muscles of scallop or shellfish
Kani (蟹): Crab , also refers to imitation crab
Kani-miso (カニミソ ): Crab offal paste
Kaki (カキ,牡蠣): Oyster
Kegani (ケガニ): hairy crab
Kuruma-ebi (車海老): Prawn species Marsupenaeus japonicus
Makigai (マキガイ): Conch
Mategai (マテ貝): Razor clam
Matsubagani (松葉蟹): Champagne crab or regionally, Snow crab
Mirugai (海松貝): Geoduck clam
Sazae (栄螺, さざえ): Horned turban shell
Shako (蝦蛄): Mantis shrimp or "Squilla"
Shiba ebi (芝海老): Grey prawn
Shima ebi (しまえび): Morotoge shrimp
Soft-shell crab
Tarabagani (鱈場蟹): King crab
Tairagai (タイラギ): Pen-shell clam
Torigai (鳥貝): Cockle
Tsubugai (螺貝, ツブガイ): Whelk (Neptunea , Buccinum , Babylonia japonica )
Zuwaigani (ズワイガニ/津和井蟹/松葉蟹), also regionally marketed as matsubagani: Snow crab
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