Rice balls or onigiri is a traditional dish in Japanese cuisine. It is convenient to take such a dish with you on a picnic or on a hike. And it differs from all others in its originality and ease of preparation.
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You will need
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- rice - 1.25 kg;
- pickled plums (umeboshi) - 8 pcs;
- salmon - 200 g;
- dry seaweed yaki nori - ½ leaf;
- salt - 15 g;
- sesame seeds - 20 gr.
Instruction manual
1
Rinse the rice with water until it becomes transparent. Boil it in unsalted water. Add exactly 2 times the amount of water to the water and bring it almost to readiness, make sure that the rice is not boiled. Drain and discard in a colander, cool.
2
Salt the rice to taste and roll rice balls (8 pieces) out of it. Onigiri are not quite the shape of a ball, but rounded triangles, slightly flattened. Forming rice balls, periodically wet your hands with water so that the rice does not stick.
3
In each ball, make a hole for the plum (umeboshi). Do not completely immerse the plum in the rice ball, leaving a small portion outside.
4
Free fish from skin and bones. Mash the salmon thoroughly with a fork and mix with the remaining rice. Form rice balls from the resulting mixture, as in the previous steps.
5
Take the algae, cut it into 4 parts as stripes. Wrap 4 rice balls with plums on the bottom with seaweed. Sprinkle the remaining onigiri with sesame seeds.
note
Rice balls can be consumed within 2-3 days after manufacture and at the same time it is enough to store them in the refrigerator.
Useful advice
Rice is suitable not only Japanese, but also ordinary.
Use any filling for onigiri, thanks to your imagination you will get a new kind of rice balls. Remember that the filling must necessarily keep its shape, otherwise, being liquid, it will leak from the middle of the ball. Instead of salmon, for example, you can add crab sticks or canned pink salmon. If the kitchen has spices in the form of various herbs, then you can also add them to rice balls to taste. The Japanese are not afraid to experiment with their rice dishes.
A wonderful drink for onigiri will be real Japanese green tea.