Smoked Salmon Onigiri

Name: Smoked Salmon Onigiri
Yield: Makes 8
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Smoked salmon 8 slices, about 5 x 5-cm (2 x 2-in); Salt 1 tsp; Shiso leaves 8; Cooked Japanese short grain rice 480 g (17 oz); Lemon ¼, thinly sliced and cut into triangles

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Onigiri

By Sanae Inada

Published 2018

About

This onigiri almost looks like sushi, making it perfect to serve at parties and special events. When using smoked salmon, it’s important to serve it as soon as it is prepared.

Ingredients

Smoked salmon 8 slices, about 5 x 5-cm (2 x 2-in)
Shiso leaves 8
Salt

Asia
Japan
Snack
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Breakfast
Summer

Method

Place salmon in the middle of a sheet of cling wrap and put a piece of shiso leaf face down over the salmon.
Place cling wrap in a rice bowl and scoop one-eighth of the rice into the bowl. Pull out rice together with cling wrap and mould rice into a ball.
Remove cling wrap and garnish rice ball with lemon. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.