This easy Japanese Chicken Onigiri recipe shows you how to make perfectly shaped rice balls filled with savory chicken. Great ...

To make temarizushi, cooked and vinegared sushi rice is first rolled roughly into a ball. Then, the topping of choice can be placed onto a sheet of plastic wrap, and the rice ball layered on top.

Add another 1 tbsp rice on top, then roll the rice around the cucumber until it’s completely covered, and you have a solid rice ball. Repeat to make 12 balls.

Temaris or ball sushi — warm mounds of rice with thin-sliced toppings drizzled in spicy sauces — was almost impossible to find in South Florida until Temaris opened on Brickell.

Chef Yasu serves exquisite seafood “jewelry boxes” ($220) that feed 2 to 3 people, and “samurai sushi balls” (2 for $20) that house assorted marinated fish in rice balls that are designed ...

So whereas the familiar nigiri sushi is made by pressing sliced fish over an oblong patty of rice, temari sushi sees the fish laid atop spherical balls of rice. They are, quite literally, sushi balls.