Onigiri - Japanese Rice Ball
Onigiri - Japanese Rice Ball

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook onigiri - japanese rice ball using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Onigiri - Japanese Rice Ball:
  1. Take 320 g short grain white rice
  2. Take 400 ml water
  3. Get 100 g grilled salted salmon fillet
  4. Get 50 g frozen peas
  5. Get 1 tbsp fine salt
  6. Prepare Any types of Japanese Tukemono pickles
  7. Get 2 tbsp black toasted sesame seeds
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp white toasted sesame seeds
  9. Prepare 1 sheet dried nori seaweed
  10. Make ready For Katsuobushi Filling
  11. Get 10 g bonito flakes
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce
  13. Get 1 tbsp mirin
  14. Make ready For Tuna Mayo Filling
  15. Take 80 g tinned tuna, drained
  16. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise
  17. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce

Japanese rice balls, also known as onigiri or omusubi, are a staple of Japanese lunch boxes (bento). They are usually shaped into rounds or triangles by hand, and they're fun to make and eat. Much like sandwiches in the West, onigiri is readily available in convenience stores across Japan, and it's great for a quick and easy savory snack. Onigiri (おにぎり) - Japanese Rice Balls Onigiri (おにぎり), which are sometimes called Omusubi (おむすび), are Japanese rice balls that come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Steps to make Onigiri - Japanese Rice Ball:
  1. Cooking rice first. Wash rice thoroughly and repeat until water becomes almost clear. Repeat rinsing and draining for at least 3-4 times until the water becomes fairly clear. Place the drained rice together with the appropriate amount of cold water in a heavy based medium saucepan and soak for at least 30minutes.
  2. Start cooking the rice with the high heat, covering with a lid and bring to boil. Once it reaches to boil, then reduce the heat to the lowest heat and simmer for about 12-15 minutes or until water is absorbed. You must keep the lid closed at all times as you are steaming the rice, not boiling. Once rice is cooked, leave it to set with the lid on for another 15 minutes.
  3. While cooking the rice, prepare for the fillings. Mix each fillings in a separate bowls and set aside. Quickly boil frozen peas with a little salted water for about 3-4 minutes, drain and leave them to cool. And then chop cooked peas finely chop or blitz for few seconds to make fine pieces. Flake up grilled salmon.
  4. Transfer piping hot rice into two separate medium bowls to the ratio of one 2/3 to one bowl and 1/3 to another bowl. And then prepare water in another bowl. Leave 1 tbsp of salt on a saucer. Mix chopped peas into 1/3 of rice and mix.
  5. Wet both hands and then touch salt with three wet finger tips and then spread salt to over both palms by gently rubbing both hands. Take a handful of the rice and then make a bowl by shaping it into triangular shape.
  6. Once you formed a triangular shape, poke the middle with an index finger and then add one filling. Cover the hole with a little extra rice and the shape it back to triangular again. Repeat this with the rest of rice and different filling. Best to use tuna mayonnaise filling for pea rice and use salmon filling and katsuobushi filling for plain rice.
  7. On a plate, sprinkle mixture of black and white toasted sesame seeds. Take katsuobushi filling rice ball and then run through the 3 surfaces that are not triangle shape. Use nori sheet to cover two triangular side of salmon rice ball. Serve with Japanese pickled vegetables on the side.

Much like sandwiches in the West, onigiri is readily available in convenience stores across Japan, and it's great for a quick and easy savory snack. Onigiri (おにぎり) - Japanese Rice Balls Onigiri (おにぎり), which are sometimes called Omusubi (おむすび), are Japanese rice balls that come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They can be filled or unfilled, but the idea is that they're a seasoned and ready-to-eat bowl of rice that you can pick up and eat with your hands. Onigiri, also called O-musubi or Nigirimeshi are Japanese Rice Balls that are hand shaped into round balls or triangles and usually wrapped in nori (seaweed). Back in the day when there was no such thing as refrigeration, the Japanese came up with a way to preserve rice by adding salt and pickled ingredients.

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