The Simple Japanese Rice Ball Snack

• Vegetarian

• Pasta & Grains

  • 3 cups Japanese sticky rice, cooked

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 packet Rice seasoning
  • 1 Salt

• Liquids

  • 1 Water

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Description

Ingredients

• 3 cups cooked Japanese sticky rice
• 1 packet rice seasoning (aka ‘furikake’ in Japanese)
• Water
• Salt

Directions

• Pop your cooked rice into a nice mixing bowl. Add the furikake or rice flavouring and mix through evenly. Or if you feel like hiding something tasty inside, you can skip this step.
• Separate the rice into equal portions, big enough to be a large handful each.
• Wet your hands with water and rub your together with a pinch or two of salt. Thisll stop the rice sticking to your hands.
• Pick up one handful/portion of rice. If you are putting something inside, here is where you make an indent, place the ingredients inside and fold the rice over, then lightly compress into a ball.
• Using mainly your fingertips while resting the rice on your palm, start to press and squeeze the rice into a triangular shape, rotating as you go so it’s even. According to our Japanese friends, you ideally want to end up with one face of the onigiri having a small indentation from your fingers.
• Optional step: Wrap a small slice of nori seaweed around the base of your onigiri.
• Place a slice of nori on the bottom of the onigiri (the rough side should face the rice) and fold it up towards to the middle of the onigiri.
• Repeat for the remaining rice portions.

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