I am a huge sushi lover, and it amazes me how many types of sushi rolls there are in the world. They are unique, enjoyable, and in any flavor you want.

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Types of sushi rolls:Avocado roll Alaskan roll Asparagus roll Atlanta roll Baked salmon roll Bath street roll Blue crab roll Boston roll British Columbia roll California roll Carrot roll Caterpillar roll Chicken teriyaki roll Classic roll Crazy boy roll Crazy roll Crystal roll Cucumber roll Dancing eel roll Dragon roll Dynamite roll Eel avocado roll Eel cucumber roll Energy roll Fantasy roll Fire roll Firecracker roll Futomaki roll Golden roll Hawaiian roll Holiday roll Hot night roll Hungry roll Kamikaze roll King roll Las Vegas roll Lasagna roll Mango roll Mastercard roll Michigan roll New York roll Ocean roll Oshinko roll Peanut avocado roll Philadelphia roll Pink lady roll Rainbow roll Rattlesnake roll Rocky roll Salmon avocado roll Salmon cucumber roll Salmon skin roll Salmon roll Scallop volcano roll Sea roll Seattle roll Shrimp cucumber roll Shrimp killer roll Shrimp tempura roll Smoked salmon roll Snowcorn roll Softshell crab roll Soho roll Spicy girl roll Spicy salmon roll Spicy tataki roll Spicy tuna roll Spicy yellowtail roll Spider roll Spring roll Summer roll Sweet potato roll Tampa roll Teriyaki roll Texas roll Tiger roll Tuna avocado roll Tuna cucumber roll Tuna roll Vegetable roll Viagra roll Volcano roll White tuna roll Yellowtail roll California roll Spicy tuna roll Crunchy roll Philly roll Caterpillar roll Rainbow roll

The huge myth of sushi is just raw fish is getting a little old now. There are so many vegetarian sushi rolls too. Japanese facts state that sushi is actually a way to prepare rice, not raw fish. Sushi always has rice, but it doesn’t contain a fish in each type of sushi.

The term sushi actually means different types and combinations of ingredients make Japanese food made with Japanese type of rice with different kinds of seafood (shrimp, prawn, fresh fish) and vegetables.

This Japanese dish is now much loved everywhere, and it is considered expensive compared to other foods because it is highly labor-intensive. As simple as this dish seems, it is quite the opposite. Types of sushi rolls hide various preparations that go into making these rolls, almost as many as a chefs’ imagination can go.

Listed below are the types of sushi rolls and the ingredients that go into them; you will be amazed to see how much variety there is in a single dish. Next time when you go to your favorite Japanese restaurant, this little list is going to help you choose your favorite sushi roll.

Types of sushi rolls:

Avocado roll

Ingredients are avocado (vegetarian sushi roll)

Alaskan roll

Ingredients are smoked salmon, avocado, imitation crab

Asparagus roll

Ingredients are cooked asparagus (vegetarian sushi roll)

Atlanta roll

Ingredients are fried tuna, salmon, albacore with spicy aioli sauce

Baked salmon roll

Ingredients are broiled salmon, crab, cucumber, cream cheese, and sweet sauce.

Bath street roll

Ingredients are an octopus, crab, smelt egg, cream cheese, avocado, and cucumber.

Blue crab roll

Ingredients are lump blue crab meat with avocado or/and cucumber

Boston roll

Ingredients are cooked shrimp, cucumber, tobiko, plus avocado or lettuce

British Columbia roll

Ingredients are grilled salmon skin, cucumber, and sometimes sweet sauce

California roll

Ingredients are imitation crab, cucumber, and sesame seeds

Carrot roll

Ingredients are carrot (vegetarian sushi roll)

Caterpillar roll

Ingredients are cucumber, avocado, unagi, Kani kama.

Chicken teriyaki roll

Ingredients are chicken teriyaki and sliced cucumber topped with avocado

Classic roll

Ingredients are Crab, avocado, and cucumber. Most commonly, the crab is an imitation crab made from fish.

Crazy boy roll

Ingredients are Fried California Roll with eel sauce on top

Crazy roll

Ingredients are Spicy Salmon, spicy tuna, avocado, crunch, masago wrapped inside soybean seaweed.

Crystal roll

Ingredients are Eel, spicy Kani, avocado, and crunchy inside, tobiko, and eel sauce on top.

Cucumber roll

Ingredients are Cucumber (Vegetarian sushi rolls)

Dancing eel roll

Ingredients are Shrimp tempura and cream cheese, with eel and sometimes avocado on top.

Dragon roll

Ingredients are Eel cucumber topped with avocado and masago

Dynamite roll

Ingredients are Prawn/Shrimp Tempura, yellowtail, carrots, avocado, chili, cucumber, with spicy mayo.

Eel avocado roll

Ingredients are cooked eel with avocado, topped with sauce

Eel cucumber roll

Ingredients are cooked eel with cucumber, topped with sauce

Energy roll

Ingredients are eel, yellowtail, yamagobo, green onions, and smelt eggs

Fantasy roll

Ingredients are tuna, salmon, yellowtail, tobacco, and avocado, cucumber with mayonnaise in a white seaweed wrap.

Fire roll

Ingredients are king crab, white fish, tomato, asparagus, and tobiko tempura with spicy mayo.

Firecracker roll

Ingredients are spicy scallops, raw tuna, and avocado

Futomaki roll

Ingredients are crab, egg, and vegetables

Golden roll

Ingredients are deep-fried roll with Kani, eel, Philadelphia cream cheese inside with chef special sauce, spicy mayo, and eel sauce.

Hawaiian roll

Ingredients are raw tuna, garlic, avocado, and more tuna on top

Holiday roll

Ingredients are turkey, cranberry with cream cheese

Hot night roll

Ingredients are shrimp tempura, cucumber, and spicy tuna

Hungry roll

Ingredients are spicy tuna, crispy seaweed, and tempura

Kamikaze roll

Ingredients are spicy tuna, crunch, and tobiko, and/or avocado

King roll

Ingredients are king crab tempura, avocado, and lettuce topped with crunchy shrimp.

Las Vegas roll

Ingredients are cream cheese, avocado, yamagobo, crab, and assorted fish. The whole roll is deep-fried.

Lasagna roll

Ingredients are California roll, broiled with shrimp and cream sauce

Mango roll

Ingredients are crab meat, shrimp tempura, avocado, mango slices with mango paste.

Mastercard roll

Ingredients are California roll with salmon and tuna on top

Michigan roll

Ingredients are spicy tuna, smelt roe, avocado, and spicy tuna

New York roll

Ingredients are smoked salmon, apple, avocado

Ocean roll

Ingredients are spicy snow crab, avocado, and tobiko with Kani on top

Oshinko roll

Ingredients are Japanese pickled radish

Peanut avocado roll

Ingredients are roasted salt peanuts, avocado, wasabi, soy sauce (vegetarian sushi rolls)

Philadelphia roll

Ingredients are smoked salmon, cream cheese, and cucumber

Pink lady roll

Ingredients are crab meat with salmon and avocado, topped with tobiko, and wrapped in pink soy paper.

Rainbow roll

Ingredients are California roll topped with avocado and assorted raw fish

Rattlesnake roll

Ingredients are shrimp tempura, topped with eel and avocado

Rocky roll

Ingredients are tuna, avocado, and crunch with shrimp on top

Salmon avocado roll

Ingredients are salmon with avocado

Salmon cucumber roll

Ingredients are salmon with cucumber

Salmon skin roll

Ingredients are cooked salmon skin with avocado and red peppers

Salmon roll

Ingredients are salmon

Scallop volcano roll

Ingredients are California roll topped off with baked scallops and mushrooms.

Sea roll

Ingredients are spicy tuna and avocado topped with spicy scallop

Seattle roll

Ingredients are raw salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, and/or avocado

Shrimp cucumber roll

Ingredients are cooked shrimp and cucumber

Shrimp killer roll

Ingredients are shrimp tempura, cucumber, topped with shrimp

Shrimp tempura roll

Ingredients are light batter fried shrimp, cucumber, avocado, mayo, and masago.

Smoked salmon roll

Ingredients are smoked salmon with cucumber and avocado

Snowcorn roll

Ingredients are crab with avocado topped with baked white fish

Softshell crab roll

Ingredients are deep-fried soft-shell crab, cucumber, and tobiko

Soho roll

Ingredients are smoked salmon, shrimp, crab, and avocado

Spicy girl roll

Ingredients are spicy salmon and crunch with salmon and avocado on top

Spicy salmon roll

Ingredients are minced salmon mixed with spicy mayo

Spicy tataki roll

Ingredients are spicy tuna and cucumber, topped with avocado and cooked tuna.

Spicy tuna roll

Ingredients are minced albacore tuna mixed with spicy mayo

Spicy yellowtail roll

Ingredients are raw yellowtail and spicy sauce

Spider roll

Ingredients are fried soft-shell crab, cucumber, avocado

Spring roll

Ingredients are crab meat and avocado wrapped with cucumber, topped with tobiko and Japanese mayonnaise.

Summer roll

Ingredients are crab stick, cucumber, avocado, lemon juice, and mayo, topped with salmon.

Sweet potato roll

Ingredients are sweet potato sometimes fried

Tampa roll

Ingredients are breaded fried fish and scallions with mayo

Teriyaki roll

Ingredients are teriyaki seasoned meat and cucumber topped with avocado

Texas roll

Ingredients are beef, cucumber, spinach leaves

Tiger roll

Ingredients are avocado, shrimp tempura, and cucumber, and lettuce

Tuna avocado roll

Ingredients are tuna with avocado

Tuna cucumber roll

Ingredients are tuna with cucumber

Tuna roll

Ingredients are tuna

Vegetable roll

Ingredients are avocado, cucumber, yamagobo, kaiware, asparagus, and lettuce.

Viagra roll

Ingredients are sea urchin, eel, and avocado

Volcano roll

Ingredients are king crab, spicy tuna, crunch, and avocado wrapped in soybean paper with chef’s special sauce.

White tuna roll

Ingredients are escolar tuna

Yellowtail roll

Ingredients are yellowtail, generally rolled with scallions only.

The list goes on and on, right? But these types of sushi rolls listed below are the most popular ones. They are universal favorites of the many sushi rolls we just discussed.

California roll

This is the original inside-out roll among many different types of sushi rolls. In this, the rice is outside the seaweed wrapper. It is one of the most famous sushi rolls on the planet.

Fun fact about the origin of this sushi is that this sushi roll wasn’t created in California or Tokyo but Canada.

Spicy tuna roll

California roll must be the new in-trend sushi roll, but spicy tuna roll was a hit before these several types of sushi rolls came into action. Adding spicy mayo as an ingredient with the tuna balanced its sweetness to the spicy effect. Today, everyone has a huge appetite for sushi, but spicy tuna rolls remain an all-time favorite.

Crunchy roll

Many sushi rolls are entirely deep-fried, and some are not at all. But the crunchy roll is just perfect, the sushi roll is raw, and the panko batter is fried before adding it to the roll. The crunchy roll is amazing, favorite, and famous for its texture that many sushi rolls lack.

Philly roll

This sushi roll did originate in Philadelphia by one of the first world’s female sushi chefs. It is a combination of cream cheese and salmon, and it became America’s one of the most popular types of sushi rolls.

Caterpillar roll

Avocado may not be Japanese, but this Mexican ingredient is very well adapted in the sushi roll world. The perfect mix of fish and avocado is the best thing about the caterpillar roll; to best make it look like its name, the sushi is entirely rolled by grilled eel (unagi) and is generously topped with slices of green avocado to make it look like the cute caterpillar.

Rainbow roll

The king among all the types of sushi rolls is, hands down, the Rainbow roll. This sushi is a combination of all the sushi rolls listed above. From inside, it is a California roll, and from the top, different colored fish stripe the length of the roll, ahi tuna for red, salmon for orange, yellowtail for pink, red snapper for white, and avocado for green. This colorful view gives you a vibe of the rainbow, and every single mouthful is just delicious.

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