Anyone for Onigiri?

[Hatredcopter]

I second the rice cooker. My Zojirushi rice cooker makes perfect rice every time. Also, you have to be using Japonica rice. Other short grains may work, but Japonica rice is the kind they use in Japan (obviously) and is characterized by its slightly sweet taste and sticky quality. You can also buy onigiri presses that shape the rice ball perfectly for you - no need to do it by hand, and they're dirt cheap.

[loveless09]

try buying sushi rice from an asian market, it looks like tiny almost flat peices of something..>< wash it until the water is translucent. After cooking, fluff your rice but not too much or the sticky consistency will dissapear. wet ur hands good with water. put a huge glop of rice in ur hand and start to make a balll shape, then make ur hands perpendicular and form the triangle shape. lightly salt the onigiri and wrap in seaweed. u can also burn some salmon to put inside.

by burn, i mean fry but use VERY LITTLE oil.

[Sphinx01]

Can anyone explain rice balls to me....I seriously want to make some...help needed

[Uriko]

cook rice then make it into a ball! ..at least, that's how they do it in the anime. v_v

[Sphinx01]

that easy huh...

[Nyororin]

You salt the rice, and roll it into a compacted ball. Most people squish it a bit, then flatten it partly and put some sort of filling in it, then roll the ball around that.
It`s also pretty normal to wrap a sheet of nori around the outside.

[ryochonan1]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

You salt the rice, and roll it into a compacted ball. Most people squish it a bit, then flatten it partly and put some sort of filling in it, then roll the ball around that.
It`s also pretty normal to wrap a sheet of nori around the outside.

That sounds pretty good. Before I had some sort of potato ball from Japan , it is treat over there, but did not like it too much. I had a weird texture and taste, but the rest of my family really liked it.

[Sphinx01]

Oh thank you all...you wonderful people!!!!

[SSJup81]

I just learned how to make onigiri last week in class. I made one with Salmon. The other one with a tuna/soy/Japanese mayo mix and we wrapped it in Nori. It's very easy to prepare, although, I haven't tried it on my own yet. I don't know how to make sticky rice and don't own a rice cooker or steamer to make things easier for me.

Seems that once you get the hang of making it, it comes easier and you can experiment with it.

[EChan]

Links:
Onigiri - How to make them work.
Onigiri(Rice ball) is pretty easy to do, but you need to be careful when you cook the rice.