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Onigiri Rice Balls
Hot rice shaped with salted hands into loose triangles around a hidden morsel of soy-soaked bonito, grilled salmon, cod roe or pickled plum, then capped with a band of toasted nori; Japan's picnic sandwich.
- YieldServes 4 · 8 to 10 rice balls
- Hands-on45 min
- Total1 h 50 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
rice
- 450 gJapanese short-grain rice (gives about 5 cups cooked)
- 540 mlwater
- 250 mlwater mixed with 1 tbsp salt, for wetting hands
wrapping
- 4 sheetsnori seaweed
- 2 tbspblack sesame seeds
fillings (choose one or more)
- 5 gdried bonito flakes (hana-katsuo)optional
- 2 tspsoy sauce, to moisten the bonitooptional
- 100 gsalted salmon filletoptional
- 50 gsalted cod roe (tarako), one small sacoptional
- 3pickled plums (umeboshi)optional
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