Bonito Flakes and Cheese Onigiri

Name: Bonito Flakes and Cheese Onigiri
Yield: Makes 8
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Cooked Japanese short grain rice 480 g (17 oz); Toasted white sesame seeds 2 Tbsp, ground; Wasabi (optional) to taste; Japanese soy sauce (shoyu) 2 Tbsp; Mozzarella 120 g (4⅓ oz), grated; Bonito flakes 3 g (1/10 oz); Japanese soy sauce (shoyu) 2 Tbsp

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Onigiri

By Sanae Inada

Published 2018

About

Bonito flakes and cheese? I know this doesn’t sound right but the combination works well! You can serve this bite-size onigiri as a snack to go with drinks. If you like melted cheese, serve this onigiri as soon as you make it. For wasabi lovers, add a little wasabi to the mixture.

Ingredients

Bonito flakes 3 g (1/10 oz)
Japanese soy sauce (shoyu) 2

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Snack
Pescatarian
Summer
Breakfast

Method

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
Place cling wrap in a rice bowl and scoop 60 g (2 oz) rice mixture into the bowl. Pull out rice together with c