Basic Japanese Shio Onigiri (Salted Rice Balls)
Basic Japanese Shio Onigiri (Salted Rice Balls)

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This post may contain affiliate Various Fillings for Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls). Because of its popularity in Japan, all different That's why salt is rubbed on hands when you make onigiri so that rice is kept safe for a longer time. Onigiri means rice ball in Japanese.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have basic japanese shio onigiri (salted rice balls) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Japanese Shio Onigiri (Salted Rice Balls):
  1. Get Japanese white rice(150g)
  2. Get Salt
  3. Prepare (1/2 teaspoon Ajinomoto)
  4. Make ready Vegetable oil
  5. Take Green shiso
  6. Prepare Some Seaweed(Nori)
  7. Get Some Plastic wrap(Cling wrap)

This is the very basic of Japanese cuisine. Japanese rice balls, also known as onigiri or omusubi, are a staple of Japanese lunchboxes (bento). They are usually shaped into rounds or triangles by The rice can also be mixed with a flavorful add-in like furikake. Furikake is like the salt and pepper of Japan and consists of toasted sesame seeds, sea.

Steps to make Basic Japanese Shio Onigiri (Salted Rice Balls):
  1. Cook rice in a rice cooker.
  2. Use freshly cooked rice for Onigiri. Once the rice is cooked, fold up the rice using a spatula to allow excess steam to escape.
  3. Place the rice into a bowl. Add salt, salad oil (and ajinomoto if you want to add more flavors) and mix well.
  4. Check how it tastes like and adjust the amount of salt. (When the rice cools down, it tastes less salty. Please also change the amount of salt depends on the time you eat this Onigiri.)
  5. Divide the rice into 4 portions, put each portion on a plastic wrap. First, make a round shape by wrapping softly. And then shape into triangle. Do not push or press hard when shaping Onigiri. After you finish shaping, remove the plastic wrap first to avoid rice from getting wet by extra moisture.
  6. Once the Onigiri cools down or when all the extra moisture evaporates, wrap with seaweed. To make the seaweed crisp and fresh, put them in a frying pan and warm them up for a few minutes to remove moisture. Place few leaves of green shiso and arrange Onigiri on a plate.

Using Japanese short-grain rice is the key to tender onigiri even after the rice balls have cooled to room temperature. Using freshly cooked rice that's just Salt - Although onigiri fillings tend to be very salty, there's only a small amount in the very center, so your onigiri will taste much better if you salt. At its most basic, onigiri is a ball of steaming hot Japanese rice that's salted and molded either by hand or using an onigiri press to form a triangle Furikake is a salty Japanese seasoning made with a blend of ingredients that taste good on rice. Common furikake blends include nori seaweed and egg. Salt can be replaced with garlic salt, seasoned salt or a mix of Chinese five-spice powder with salt.

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