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.

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

• Nori (海苔): dried seaweed (often used to wrap or belt makizushi or gunkan)[4][1][2][3][5]
• Rice paper[1]
• Salmon skin[6]
• Thinly sliced sheets of cucumber[1]
• Usuyaki-tamago: thinly cooked sweet omelette or custard[1]
• Yuba: "tofu skin" or "soybean skin", a thin film derived from soybeans[1][3]

Eggs

Tamagoyaki, also referred to as tamago

• Tamago (卵, 玉子): sweet egg omelette or custard, sometimes mixed with minced fish[4][5]
• Quail eggs (raw or cooked)[3][5]

Meats

• Basashi/sakura niku (馬刺し/桜肉): Raw horse, nicknamed for its bright pink color[7]
• Gyusashi (牛刺し): Raw beef[7]
• Shikasashi (鹿刺し): Raw venison[7]
• Torisashi (鳥刺し): Raw chicken[7]

Seafood

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

Finfish

The list below does not follow biological classification.

• Ainame (アイナメ): fat greenling[3]
• Aji (鯵): Japanese jack mackerel[1][2][3][5]
• Akami (赤身): red meat fish[2]
• Akamutsu (アカムツ): blackthroat seaperch[3]
• Aka-yagara (赤矢柄): red cornetfish[8]
• Amadai (あまだい): tilefish[2]
• Anago (穴子): saltwater eel, Conger eel[4][5][3][2]
• Ankimo (鮟肝): monkfish liver (cooked)[2]
• Ayu (鮎): sweetfish (raw or grilled)[3]
• Buri (鰤): adult yellowtail (cooked or raw)[1][2][3][5]
  • Hamachi (魬, はまち): young (35–60 cm) yellowtail[9][3][5]

Engawa (meat close to the fin of a flounder) nigirizushi

• Dojo (ドジョウ): Japanese loach[3]
• Ei (エイ): skate[3]
• Engawa (縁側): often referred as 'fluke fin', the chewy part of fluke, a flatfish[3]
• Fugu (河豚): puffer fish[3]
• Funa (フナ): crucian carp[3]
• Gindara (銀鱈): sablefish[3]
• Hamo (鱧, はも): daggertooth pike conger,[3] a variety of eel, less popular than unagi and anago, and known for its fatty texture
• Hata (ハタ): grouper[3]
• Hatahata (鰰): sandfish[3]
• Hikari-mono (光り物): blue-backed fish, various kinds of "shiny" (silvery scales) fish[2][3][5]
• Hiramasa (平政, 平柾): yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi)[3]
• Hirame (平目, 鮃): fluke, a type of flounder[4][1][2][3][9]
• Hokke (ホッケ): Okhotsk atka mackerel[3]
• Hoshigarei (干鰈): spotted halibut[10]
• Inada (鰍): very young yellowtail[3]
• Isake (いさけ): trumpeter[1]
• Isaki (伊佐木, いさき): striped pigfish[3]
• Ishigarei (石鰈): stone flounder[11]
• Iwana (イワナ): charr[3]
• Iwashi (鰯): sardine[4][5][3][2]
• Kajiki (梶木, 舵木, 旗魚): swordfish[3]
  • Makajiki (真梶木): blue marlin[3]
  • Mekajiki (目梶木): swordfish[12]
• Kanpachi (間八): greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili[2][3]
• Karei (鰈): flatfish[3]
• Katsuo (鰹, かつお): skipjack tuna[1][2][3][5]
• Kawahagi (皮剥ぎ): Filefish[2]
• Kibinago (黍魚子): banded blue sprat, or silver-stripe round herring[3]
• Kisu (鱚): sillago[1][2]
• Kochi (こち): flathead[2]
• Kohada (小鰭): Japanese gizzard shad[5][3][2]

Various cuts of tuna including akami, ōtoro and chūtoro prepared as sashimi

• • Shinko (新子): very young gizzard shad[3][5]
  • Konoshiro (鰶): fully matured gizzard shad[2]
• Kue (クエ): longtooth grouper[3]
• Madai (まだい): red sea bream[2]
• Maguro (鮪): Thunnus (a genus of tuna)[1][9][3][5]
  • Chūtoro (中とろ): medium-fat bluefin tuna belly[2][5]
  • Kuro (maguro) (くろまぐろ): bluefin tuna, the fish itself[2]
  • Kihada (maguro) (木肌鮪, 黄肌鮪, きはだ): yellowfin tuna[2]
  • Mebachi (maguro) (めばちまぐろ): bigeye tuna, the most widely distributed fish in Japan[2]
  • Meji (maguro) (メジ鮪): young Pacific bluefin tuna[13]
  • Ōtoro (大とろ): fattiest portion of bluefin tuna belly[2][5]
  • Shiro maguro (白鮪), Binnaga/Bincho (鬢長): albacore or "white" tuna[9][2][3][5]
  • Toro (とろ): fatty bluefin tuna belly[9][5]
• Makogarei (まこがれい): marbled flounder[2]
• Mamakari (飯借): sprat[3]
• Matou-dai (まとう-だい): John Dory[1]
• Masu (鱒): Trout[3]
• Mejina (メジナ): Girella[3]
• Nijimasu (虹鱒): Rainbow trout[3]
• Nishin (ニシン): Herring[3]
• Noresore (のれそれ): baby Anago[14]
• Ohyou (大鮃): halibut[5]
• Okoze (虎魚): Okoze stonefish[3]
• Saba (鯖): chub mackerel or blue mackerel Served raw or marinated[1][9][2][5]
• Sake, Shake (鮭): Salmon[1][9][5]
• Sanma (秋刀魚): Pacific saury (autumn) or mackerel pike[2]
• Sawara (鰆): Spanish mackerel
• Sayori (針魚, 鱵): halfbeak (springtime)[1][2]
• Shima-aji (しま鯵): white trevally[1][2]
• Shirauo (しらうお): whitebait (Springtime)[1][2]
• Shiromi (白身) seasonal "white meat" fish[2][5]
• Suzuki (鱸): sea bass[5]
  • Seigo (鮬): young (1-2 y.o.) sea bass
• Tachiuo (タチウオ): beltfish[3]

Unagi nigiri sushi

• Tai (鯛): seabream snapper[4][1][9][3][5]
  • Madai (真鯛): red sea bream[2]
  • Kasugo (春子鯛): young sea bream[2]
  • Kurodai (黒鯛): snapper[5]
  • Ibodai (疣鯛): Japanese butterfish[3]
  • Kinmedai (金目鯛): splendid alfonsino[15]
• Tara (鱈): Cod[3]
• Unagi (鰻): freshwater eel, often broiled (grilled) with a sweet sauce. The preparation of unagi is referred to as kabayaki.[9][3][5]

Inkfish

• Aori ika (あおりいか): Bigfin reef squid[2]
• Hotaru ika (ホタルイカ): Firefly squid[3]
• Ika (烏賊, いか): Cuttlefish or squid, served raw or cooked[4][1][3][5]
• Sumi ika (墨, すみいか): Japanese spineless cuttlefish[2]
• Tako (蛸, たこ): Octopus[4][9][2][3][5]
• Yari ika (ヤリイカ): Spear squid[2]

Others

Sea cucumber (Namako)

• Hoya (海鞘, ホヤ): Sea pineapple, an Ascidian[3]
• Kamesashi (かめさし): Sea turtle sashimi[7]
• Kurage (水母, 海月): Jellyfish[9]
• Kujira (鯨, くじら, クジラ): Whale[16]
• Namako (海鼠, なまこ): Sea cucumber[3]
• Shiokara (塩辛): Seasoned, salted entrails; frequently squid[4]
• Hitode (ヒトデ): Starfish
• Uni: (雲丹, 海胆) gonad of sea urchin; may come in different colors[17][5][3][2][9]

Roe

Ikura gunkan maki sushi

Roe is a mass of fish eggs:

• Caviar (キャビア): roe of sturgeon[18]
• Ikura (イクラ): Salmon roe[5][3][9][19]
• Sujiko (筋子): Salmon roe (still in the sac)[19]
• Kazunoko (数の子, 鯑): Herring roe[3]
• Masago (まさご): Smelt roe[9]
• Mentaiko (明太子): Pollock roe seasoned to have a spicy flavor

Shirako (cod sperm) gunkanmaki-zushi

• Shirako (白子): Milt[4][2]
• Tarako (たらこ, 鱈子): Alaska pollock roe[20]
• Tobiko (飛子): roe of Flying fish[5][9][3]

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

• Akagai (赤貝): Ark shell[4][2][3][5]
• Ama-ebi (甘海老): raw pink shrimp Pandalus borealis[2][3][5]
• Aoyagi (青柳): Trough shell[2][3][5]
• Asari (あさり): Japanese carpet shell[3]
• Awabi (鮑): Abalone[9][2][3][5]
• Botan-ebi (ぼたんえび): Botan shrimp[2][3][5]
• Dungeness crab[22]
• Ebi (海老): boiled or raw shrimp[4][9][5]
• Hamaguri (蛤): Clam, Meretrix lusoria[4][2][3]
• Himejako (ヒメジャコ): Giant clam
• Himo (紐): "fringe" around an Akagai[5]
• Hokkigai, Hokki (ホッキ貝, 北寄貝): Surf clam[9][2][3][5]
• Hotategai, Hotate (帆立貝, 海扇): Scallop[4][9][2][3][5]
• Ise-ebi (伊勢海老): a spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus[3]
• Kaibashira (貝柱), Hashira (柱): valve muscles of scallop or shellfish[3]
• Kani (蟹): Crab, also refers to imitation crab[4][3][9]
• Kani-miso (カニミソ): Crab offal paste[23]
• Kaki (カキ,牡蠣): Oyster[9][3]
• Kegani (ケガニ): hairy crab[3]
• Kuruma-ebi (車海老): Prawn species Marsupenaeus japonicus[3][2]
• Makigai (マキガイ): Conch[3]
• Mategai (マテ貝): Razor clam
• Matsubagani (松葉蟹): Champagne crab or regionally, Snow crab
• Mirugai (海松貝): Geoduck clam[5][2]
• Sazae (栄螺, さざえ): Horned turban shell
• Shako (蝦蛄): Mantis shrimp or "Squilla"[5][2]
• Shiba ebi (芝海老): Grey prawn
• Shima ebi (しまえび): Morotoge shrimp[2]
• Soft-shell crab[9]
• Tarabagani (鱈場蟹): King crab[3][9]
• Tairagai (タイラギ): Pen-shell clam[2]
• Torigai (鳥貝): Cockle[5][2][9]
• Tsubugai (螺貝, ツブガイ): Whelk (Neptunea, Buccinum, Babylonia japonica)[3]
• Zuwaigani (ズワイガニ/津和井蟹/松葉蟹), also regionally marketed as matsubagani: Snow crab[3]

Vegetables and fruit

A dish of tsukemono

• Asparagus (アスパラガス)[1][3]
• Avocado (アボカド)[3]
• Carrot (ニンジン): a julienne of carrot[1][3]
• Cucumber (キュウリ): a julienne of cucumber[4][1][5][3]
• Eggplant (ナス): served in small slices, coated with oil[1][3]
• Ginger (しょうが): most often used is pickled ginger: beni shōga and gari[3]
• Gobō (牛蒡): Burdock root[3]
• Kaiware (かいわれ大根): Daikon radish sprouts[3]
• Kanpyō (乾瓢, 干瓢): dried gourd[4][1][5][3]
• Kappamaki (河童巻き): a makizushi made of cucumber and named after the Japanese water spirit who loves cucumber (Kappa)[3]
• Konnyaku (蒟蒻): Cake made from the corm of the Konjac plant[3]
• Nattō (納豆): fermented soybeans[4][1][5][3]
• Negi (ネギ): Japanese bunching onion[5]
• Oshinko (漬物): Takuan (pickled daikon) or other pickled vegetable[3]
• Shiitake (シイタケ): dried shiitake mushrooms, served roasted or simmered[4][1][3]
• Takuan (沢庵漬け): pickled daikon radish[4][3]
• Tofu (豆腐): Soybean curd[3]
• Tsukemono (漬物): various pickled vegetables[3]
• Umeboshi (梅干し): pickled plum[4][3]
• Wasabi (山葵, わさび): paste of wasabi root[3]
• Yam (サツマイモ):[3]
• Yuba (ゆば): Tofu skin[3]

See also

• List of condiments
• List of Japanese condiments
• List of Japanese cooking utensils
• List of Japanese dishes

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External links

• Media related to Sushi at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Sashimi at Wikimedia Commons
• List of sushi and sashimi ingredients at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
• Secrets of Sushi - Sushi Sauce