Top 35+ Different Sushi Recipes To Make At Home

Sushi might just be my favorite kind of food. My favorite Japanese restaurant is pretty amazing...but I can't afford to dine out all the time. That's why I've collected this super awesome list of different sushi recipes you can make at home!

Grab a bamboo mat and a sharp knife and let's get started.

Collage of 4 photos depicting different sushi with text overlay, "35+ Top Sushi Recipes".

There are so many types of sushi! Cooked and raw sashimi are traditional starters to whet the appetite. Nigiri, pieces of fish on rice vinegar seasoned rice, comes next. Nigiri includes pressed oshi sushi and torched fish topped rice known as aburi.

Familiar maki rolls and hand rolled cones also known as temaki wrap up a variety of tasty fillings with rice in nori seaweed. There are delicious seafood salads, baked sushi, crispy sushi and even dessert sushi too!

Rice and seaweed are vegan so there are lots of vegan and vegetarian sushi recipes to choose from if required.

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Sashimi
Nigiri
Japanese Appetizers & Salad
Chirashi or Chirashizushi (Sushi Bowls)
Temaki (Hand Rolls)
Maki Rolls
Creative, Non-Traditional Sushi
Sushi Bakes
Sauces
Dessert
Related Recipes

In Japanese sushi bars, you'll start with the delicate sashimi and other small bites. These highlight the freshness and high quality of the seafood. Rice is saved for later.

When serving sushi at home, make sure to serve small dishes of soy sauce, wasabi paste and pickled ginger. If you like spicy mayo dip, mix ½ cup of kewpie mayonnaise with 1-3 teaspoons of sriracha and serve that in a small bowl too.

Sashimi

Made with premium quality sushi grade fish, sashimi is served raw and thinly sliced. Occasionally sashimi is cooked. Examples of cooked sashimi are unagi (eel), tako (octopus), squid and sometimes prawns (ebi).

Red meat is not traditionally in sushi but there is a fun twist including venison here. It's a Japanese version of an Italian crudo! (Check out Salmon Crudo for Italian style raw seafood.)

Sliced white hamachi sushi on rice with thinly sliced green onion, bright orange ikura fish roe and green shiso leaves in a light blue bowl.

Yellow Tail Sashimi

Yellowtail sashimi bowl is a Japanese rice bowl featuring soft and buttery hamachi, rich ikura and fragrant shiso leaves. This bowl takes just a few minutes to assemble and makes a perfect lunch or light dinner. Skip the rice to keep this as an appetizer.

Yellow Tail Sashimi

Seared Ahi Tuna

Seared ahi tuna is sashimi-grade fish coated in sesame seeds, then briefly cooked to tender and flavorful perfection. Add a drizzle of sauce and some fresh herbs for a spectacular sushi starter or pair it with a bowl of rice as a main course.

Seared Ahi Tuna

Deep purple slices of rare ahi tuna coated in white and black sesame seeds with greens in the background.

Venison Sashimi with Ponzu and Chili Crisp

If you're looking for an adventurous new way to prepare venison, this sashimi is full of exciting flavors and textures. Similar to beef sashimi, this version uses lean game and pops with a chili crisp topping. To substitute beef, use beef tenderloin.

Venison Sashimi

Nigiri

Nigiri stars a single, perfect piece of fish. They are bite-size morsels of seasoned seafood or a slice of Japanese omelette (tamago) on pressed rice. I've included 2 versions here but have fun topping rectangles of rice with your favorite ingredients.

Another style of nigiri is gunkan, which has the nori wrapped around the rice like a little boat. This style of nigiri is built to hold loose fillings like tobiko (flying fish roe), ikura (salmon roe) or other chopped fillings.

A piece of BBQ eel nigiri wrapped with a thin piece of nori and topped with microgreens.

Smoked Salmon Aburi Oshi Sushi

This recipe for Aburi-Style Smoked Salmon Oshi Sushi features flame-seared salmon on top of sushi rice, that is formed into a rectangular shape. It's smoky, creamy, delicious and easily made at home. (Oshi means pressed sushi and is from the Osaka region of Japan.)

Salmon Aburi Oshi

Slice of lightly torched salmon on top of avocado and a rice rectangle.

Unagi Nigiri

Unagi Nigiri is a Japanese sushi made with BBQ or grilled freshwater eel on top of hand-formed sushi rice. It has a sweet and salty flavor with a rich, meaty texture and a lacquered, sweet soy-based unagi sauce brushed over.

Unagi Nigiri

Japanese Appetizers & Salad

Miso soup, gomae, sunomono salad, gyoza and tempura are classic starters in Japanese cuisine. Here are a few of my other favorite sushi restaurant style appetizers.

Spicy Mango Kani Salad

Creamy, spicy, crisp and soft, this is the BEST Japanese mango kani salad and it takes just minutes to make. Eat it as a side salad or wrap it up in a lettuce leaf or sushi roll!

Check out this recipe

Shredded kani mango and cucumber salad with creamy light orange dressing in a white square bowl on a wooden cutting board.

Oysters Motoyaki

Oysters motoyaki are those delicious and addicting bubbly and browned baked oysters with a creamy, bright, and lemon-tinged sauce offered at many Japanese restaurants. Quite possibly the best-tasting baked oysters you'll ever taste.

Oysters Motoyaki

Carrots and Asparagus with Goma Dressing

Steamed spinach is the traditional gomae vegetable but this recipe uses seasonal roasted carrots and asparagus for a more hearty salad. This sesame dressing is sooo good and is great served on simple steamed spinach too.

Carrot Asparagus Gomae

The roasted orange carrots and deep green asparagus are piled on a blue round plate and topped with the thick, creamy brown-orange colored goma dressing.

Chirashi or Chirashizushi (Sushi Bowls)

Meaning scattered fish, these yummy bowls are full of seafood and vegetables. Chirashi Kashi is artfully arranged over rice and chirashi barra scatters the ingredients evenly over top of the rice. Traditional on rice but you can build yours over salad if you prefer.

Chirashi Sushi Bowl

Rice topped with beautifully arranged ingredients make a delicious and colorful dish for company or a perfect one bowl meal for movie night at home. This looks fancy but is so easy because you just top a bowl of rice without having to roll up any ingredients. Mix up your toppings for a beautiful and colorful presentation.

Check out this recipe

Healthy Chirashi Sushi Bowl With Seafood And Vegetables

Spicy Kani Sushi Bowl

Topped with spicy sriracha mayo and filled with tangy sushi rice, crisp cucumber, crunchy carrots, creamy avocado, and crab meat, this is it. This sushi bowl has all the flavors of a spicy kani roll in a bowl.

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Bowl of white rice topped with chopped kani, cucumber, carrot and edamame and drizzled with orange spicy mayo sauce.

Tuna Sushi Bowl With Avocado Wasabi Dressing

A quick and easy tuna sushi bowl is packed with chopped tuna, radishes, carrots, cucumber, seaweed, and avocado slices then drizzled in a spicy avocado wasabi dressing.

Tuna Sushi Bowl

White bowl filled with sushi ingredients including cubes tuna, chopped green onion, radish and avocado with a pale green creamy sauce drizzled over.

Vegetarian Sushi Bowl

Yummy Japanese flavors in a loaded veggie and egg bowl with no seafood. An easy to customize vegetarian dinner.

Vegetarian Sushi Bowl

Bowl of vegetables on rice with a halved, soft boiled egg on top and spicy orange sauce drizzled over.

Vegan Galaxy Sushi Bowl

This vegan, gluten-free, and organic galaxy sushi bowl has a rice combination that is naturally colored with superfoods. The fresh veggies and sriracha tofu stars make this a nice summertime dinner idea. Even if you're not vegan, try this super cool trick to making day glow sushi rice!

Check out this recipe

Colorful bowl ofsliced red, green, orange and yellow vegetables beside a bowl of black, purple and white galaxy rice and a bowl of star shaped fried tofu pieces all on a black background.

Temaki (Hand Rolls)

Temaki were created as an easy to eat, fast food in 19th century Japan. Nori sheets roll diagonally into a cone shape that holds all the ingredients (including soy sauce) inside. It is easy to eat with your hands and is a popular street food in Japan.

Sushi Hand Roll

Sushi Hand Roll - a simple tutorial (with step-by-step photos) on how to make a delicious sushi hand roll at home. Option to add any filling ingredients you want - get creative!

Sushi Hand Roll

Teriyaki Salmon Temaki

If you are not a whiz in the kitchen, rest assured that you CAN make this recipe, and it will be beautiful and delicious. With sweet teriyaki sauce, this makes a family-friendly cooked salmon hand roll.

Teriyaki Salmon Temaki

Unagi (BBQ Eel) Sushi Hand Roll

Unagi Sushi (Eel Hand Roll) is a popular sushi roll featuring Japanese eel cooked in a rich umami sauce, then rolled in seasoned sushi rice and nori. This simple hand roll comes together in less than 10 minutes and is perfect for beginners making sushi for the first time.

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Cone style sushi hand roll with dried seaweed on the outside, barbecue eel, rice and cucumber and rice on the inside all on a blue plate.

Maki Rolls

Sushi rolls can vary from simple avocado or cucumber rolls to elaborate futomaki (picnic rolls) and everything in between and sometimes on top too! Choose from vegan, vegetarian, raw seafood or cooked fish to fill your own homemade sushi rolls.

Hosomaki are the smallest, simplest rolls usually filled with just one star ingredient and a little seasoning. Uramaki are the popular inside out rolls (like the California roll) with the rice on the outside.

Futomaki means picnic roll and are the largest rolls with a variety of fillings often filled with bits of fish, prawns, tamago (egg), Japanese plum, avocado, cucumber and more. These are usually 5-7 cm wide!

Close up of hands starting to roll a sheet of nori filled with rice, salmon and avocado in a bamboo sushi mat.

Top Tips

Use a bamboo sushi rolling mat to tightly roll maki. For inside out rolls, cover your sushi mat with plastic wrap so the rice doesn't stick to the bamboo and make a mess.
When slicing your rolls, use a sharp knife and slice across gently without pushing down too much. Dip or rinse your knife in cold water between slices to keep your cuts clean.
Sushi presses are traditional square or shaped containers with a lid that presses down. Line the press with nori, rice and fillings, then fold the nori over and press until firm and well stuck together. A sushi press is fun and can make it easier for kids making sushi. You can find them in many Asian grocery stores or online. (The photo below shows sushi made in a square press.)

Two square shaped sushi rolls filled with tuna and green onion. One has bright green tobiko on top, the other has bright red masago on top.

Alaska Roll

Alaska Sushi Roll is a delicious American spin on sushi that comes together in minutes! The roll contains creamy imitation crab tossed in Kewpie mayo, cucumber, and avocado rolled in seasoned sushi rice, nori, and topped with raw salmon and ikura.

Check out this recipe

White rice sushi roll with bright red salmon wrapped around the outside.

Spicy Kani Roll (Spicy Crab Roll)

This spicy spicy crab roll is an inside out roll using crab sticks found at most sushi restaurants. Stuffed with spicy kani salad and spicy mayo it is the perfect sushi roll with a kick of spice.

Spicy Kani Roll

5 pieces of sushi with a white rice outside and pale peach colored crab filling.

Philadelphia Roll

Philadelphia Roll (or Philly Roll) is a delicious sushi roll filled with smoked salmon and cream cheese. This one includes an easy tutorial for this popular Japanese American sushi roll.

Philadelphia Roll

California Roll

On sushi menus everywhere, California rolls are very popular sushi rolls in American Japanese restaurants. This homemade California sushi roll recipe has step-by-step photos and a video to show how to make easy California rolls. Note: This recipe uses imitation crab but you can easily swap real crab (my preference) and stir, rather than process the crab and mayo mixture.

California Roll

Classic California sushi rolls in 2 rows on a rectangle white plate. White rice on the outside of rolls, pink crab mix and green avocado on the inside.

Boston Sushi Roll

The Boston Roll is an inside out uramaki roll coated with tobiko and filled with avocado, cucumber and cooked shrimp.

Boston Roll

Bright orange tobiko covered sushi roll with avocado and shrimp inside.

Avocado Sushi Roll (Vegan)

Avocado rolls are creamy and luxurious. Perfect for kids and vegetarians, they're also a nice contrast to the bolder flavors of crunchy and spicy sushi rolls. These little hosomaki rolls are simple to make, incredibly healthy, and a fraction of the price compared to restaurants.

Avocado Hosomaki

White and green slices of an avocado sushi roll. One piece is held up close with wooden chopsticks.

Spicy Salmon Roll

The spicy salmon roll is prepared with fresh salmon cuts and avocado. This inside out sushi roll is hot thanks to the spicy mayonnaise.

Spicy Salmon Roll

Sushi roll with rice on the outside and salmon and avocado on the inside.

Spicy Tuna Roll Wrapped In Cucumber

Not a fan of nori? You'll love this spicy tuna cucumber sushi roll. Albacore tuna, sushi rice, jalapeno, avocado and radishes are rolled up in thinly sliced cucumber smeared with spicy mayo and topped with sesame seeds. This is an easy, no-cook recipe.

Cucumber Wrapped Tuna Sushi Rolls

White serving board on distressed wooden table with many little cucumber wrapped rolls with tuna and veggies in them.

Crunchy Spicy California Sushi Roll

Spicy kani sushi roll (spicy crab roll) is an easy and delicious sushi recipe. Stuffed with kani salad and spicy mayo it is just like at the sushi restaurant with a kick of spice.

Check out this recipe

Orange and green fillings in a white rice sushi roll with crispy tempura bits sprinkled over the top. It is on a rectangular white plate.

Shaggy Dog Sushi Roll

With rice on the outside and seaweed on the inside, this roll looks shaggy. Filled with real crab, kani (imitation crab) and shrimp, this roll is loaded. The Shaggy Dog Roll is a sushi restaurant classic — here’s how to make it at home!

Check out this recipe

Creative, Non-Traditional Sushi

Here are some Japanese and sushi inspired recipes that are super fun. 2 of these are Hawaiian recipes. With a huge Japanese influence there are many traditional Japanese-Hawaiian recipes.

Spam Musubi

Famous Hawaiian spam musubi is easy to make at home! This tasty spam sushi was inspired by the traditional Japanese o-musubi. It's a great "to-go" snack or lunch.

Spam Musubi

Wooden serving board with 6 pieces of spam ngiri sushi.

Vegetable Sushi Donuts

Simple sushi donuts are made with only 5 ingredients!!! Fun for kids big and small to whip up. These sushi donuts are a type of pressed sushi, using an unconventional mold, a donut-shaped silicone tray.

Sushi Donuts

Crispy Rice Sushi With Bang Bang Sauce

Crispy rice sushi is a great appetizer and finger food for holiday parties! These are easily made ahead. Topped with avocado, salmon and bang bang sauce, you can easily customize them with any toppings you like!

Crispy Rice Sushi

Crispy browned squares of rice topped with thinly sliced salmon, avocado and drizzled with an orange sauce.

Vegan Temaki Celebration Emoji Sushi

Vegan Party Popper Emoji Sushi (aka temaki) is the perfect food to make and eat for any celebratory occasion that could best be described using the party popper emoji.

Check out this recipe

Cone style vegetable sushi in light brown wonton wrappers.

Rainbow Sushi Cake (Savory Sushi Rice)

For a spectacular and unexpected party centerpiece, try making this GORGEOUS savory rainbow layered sushi cake. This makes a vegan sushi cake but you can add other layers to your taste. Check out the natural ways this rice gets it's color!

Rainbow Sushi Cake

A tall round layered cake made of different colors of sushi rice and vegetables. There are layers of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink and topped with piped blue and purple cream cheese.

Sushi Cupcakes

Bright blue rice in nori cups make the cutest sushi cupcakes! Butterfly pea flowers naturally color the rice and it gets decorated with pea shoots, carrots and cucumbers.

Check out this recipe

Round, cupcake shaped sushi with blue rice, orange sliced carrots and green nori.

Sushi Bakes

Gaining popularity from Tiktok, sushi bakes are quick and easy with no rolling required. They are cooked so they are great for buffets or those who don't care for raw fish.

Spicy Salmon Sushi Bake

Want homemade sushi without all the work? This sushi bake uses pantry ingredients including canned salmon so it's easy to make any time you get a craving. Essentially a deconstructed sushi roll, this delicious dish is a great way to enjoy sushi at home without the time commitment.

Salmon Sushi Bake

Chicharron Crab Sushi Bake

Get your sushi cravings on with a deconstructed Crab Sushi that’s baked like a casserole. You’ll get indulgent kimchi mayo mixed in with cream cheese, and crab bits, sprinkled with green onions, and dusted with chicharron crumbles. This simple appetizer is easy to make and requires simple ingredients.

Chicharron Crab Sushi Bake

Round dish of crab baked sushi topped with crispy chicharons and spicy mayo with small rectangles of nori beside for serving.

Baked Furikake Salmon

Furikake is a traditional Japanese condiment often sprinkled on rice. It is a mixture of dry crumbled seaweed and sesame seeds. Here it tops Japanese mayo and salmon for a juicy and crispy sushi-flavored salmon!

Bowl of furikake topped salmon on rice with cucumber and lemon as garnish.

Sauces

Sushi Sauces (Dynamite, Eel & Mango)

If you've had sauce drizzled over your sushi, it's likely either kewpie mayonnaise, dynamite sauce (spicy mayo), Unagi (eel) sauce, or mango sauce. These 3 sushi sauce recipes are very easy to make and take your homemade sushi to the next level.

Sushi Sauces

3 plastic squeeze bottles of sauces for sushi with a square plate of sushi rolls in front.

Dessert

While a dish of green tea or mango ice cream may be more common, these sushi desserts are a lot more fun. Try one of these creative recipes for your next Japanese themed party!

Mango Coconut Nigiri Sushi

This delicious Mango Dessert Sushi tastes like mango sticky rice. It is a fun dessert to make to finish off your sushi night!

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Small rectangles of sushi rice topped with slices of mango and sprinkled with shredded coconut.

Fruit Sushi (Frushi)

This recipe for Fruit Sushi (Frushi) is a fun and delicious snack or dessert made with lightly sweetened coconut rice and fruit. A delicious and healthy finish to sushi dinner.

Fruit Sushi

Pieces of nigiri sushi topped with kiwi, raspberry and orange pieces.

Rice Krispy Treat Sushi Rolls

Treat your kids to "sushi" by making candy sushi rolls! This yummy treat is made by their favorite gummies and candy rice in fruit roll ups just like a real sushi roll!

Rice Krispy Treat Sushi Rolls

Green fruit rollup wrapped rice krispies with gummy bears in the middle made to look like a sliced sushi roll.

I hope you've found something fun and delicious in this collection of different sushi recipes. Staying in can be a lot of fun and sometimes homemade is best <3

Kanpai (Cheers in Japanese), Sabrina

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Cheers friends! Sabrina