temaki

[ te-mah-kee ]

noun

, Japanese Cooking.

1. cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, wrapped together with strips of vegetable or raw fish in a sheet of dried seaweed and rolled into a cone shape.

Word History and Origins

Origin of temaki¹

First recorded in 1980–85; from Japanese: literally, “hand roll”

Example Sentences

In Eastlake, Sushi Nori does temaki handroll sushi as well as a $68 omakase menu.

From Seattle Times

I watch rice being compressed down onto a sheet of nori as if it may try to escape, then lobster salad spooned unevenly atop it; the cylindrical temaki that disgorges a glob out one end.

From Seattle Times

Uminori in Madison Valley specializes in temaki or cone-shaped rolls.

From Seattle Times

This temaki sushi bar will offer 35 cone-shaped hand rolls, featuring everything from sustainably sourced seafood to 10 different vegetarian and vegan options.

From Seattle Times

Two years ago, the chefs Taka Sakaeda and Jihan Lee, with their partner, the operations director Lisa Limb, established a branch of this restaurant in the West Village, an elegantly spare, pale space specializing in temaki, the open hand rolls.

From New York Times