Rice Balls with Salmon Filling

Name: Rice Balls with Salmon Filling (Onigiri)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 sheets Yakinori, halved; 4 teaspoons cooked flaked fresh salmon or flaked canned salmon; 1 cup warm cooked rice (see Gohan); 1 teaspoon salt; 4 teaspoons cooked flaked fresh salmon or flaked canned salmon; 1 cup warm cooked rice (see Gohan)

Onigiri

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Cook Japanese Food!

By Amy Kaneko

Published 2017

About

Before heading into work in Tokyo, I often stopped at a little stand where an elderly woman sold nothing but rice balls. Onigiri is a quintessential Japanese food: made by moms for breakfast, lunch boxes, and picnics. It is the ideal handheld food (the nori wrapper keeps the sticky rice from getting all over your hand).

Ingredients

1 teaspoon salt
1 cup warm cooked rice (see Gohan)

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Lunch
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Breakfast
Tokyo

Method

In a shallow bowl, dissolve the salt in 1 cup water. Dip your hands into the salted water, then grab ¼ cup of the rice. Using your hands, shape the rice into a small, fat triangle, then