Dishes containing root crops, potatoes, konjac, konbu kelp, abura-age (deep-fried bean curd) among other ingredients, and simmered to taste salty-sweet are often called nishime; the ingredients of nishime, however, differ by region and the season in which nishime is cooked, and meats or fish sausages (so-called "nerimono") such as chikuwa and kamaboko or in some regions, fish, also appear as ingredients.
根菜類や芋類、こんにゃく、コンブ、油揚げなどを甘辛く煮たものをこう呼ぶことが多いが、煮しめにされる具材はその地方や季節でさまざまであり、肉類、ちくわやかまぼこなどの水産練り製品（いわゆる練り物）、地域によっては魚も用いられる。