Onigiri
Onigiri is a delicious Japanese food made with white rice and wrapped in nori alga. You can fill it with salmon, tuna, and or eat it plain.
Ingredients
- 300 grams Japanese white rice or Jasmine rice
- 430 milliliters water
- salt
- 1 nori sheet
Salted salmon filling
- 1 salmon file
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- turnip greens or spinach
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
Tuna filling
- 125 grams canned tuna
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise use Japanese mayonnaise if able
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
Instructions
How to make onigiri
- Prepare the filling if using (instructions for a few suggestions below). Cook the rice, carefully following the instructions here. This recipe, by default, makes about 8 onigiri. (It is important to cook the rice correctly because the rice needs to stick together very well to form the onigiri).
- After cooking the rice, let it cool to a temperature where you are able to shape the rice with your hands.
- To shape the onigiri, wet your hands and add a pinch of salt to your palm. Take the amount of rice for one onigiri in one hand. (Hands need to be wet, otherwise, the rice will stick to your hands and make it impossible to shape.)
- Add an optional filling in the center of the rice. Shape the rice into a ball. If using a filling, make sure it stays in the center of the rice ball.
- Form into a triangle by shaping the corners. (Apply the right amount of pressure, do not squeeze too hard.)
- Add a slice of the nori sheet (see picture of the recipe) by placing it at the edge of one side, and folding it to the other side.
- Make the other onigiri, following the same method. Serve.
Salted salmon filling
- Rub both sides of the salmon fillet with salt. Wrap it in plastic wrap and let marinate in the fridge from 2 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Unwrap and wipe the fillet dry. Place the salmon in a baking dish and bake for 10 minutes.
- Wash and chop the greens. Sauté the greens in a pan with the oil.
- Add the salt and remove from heat.
- Combine all the ingredients. Fill the onigiri according to the recipe above.
Tuna filling
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Fill the onigiri according to the instructions above.
Caution
Nutritional information shall not be used for medical reasons.
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