🇯🇵 Japan recipe
Onigiri
Japanese rice balls shaped by hand into compact triangles, filled with savory ingredients like salted salmon or pickled plum, and wrapped in a strip of crisp nori seaweed. These portable snacks are the heart of Japanese home cooking and bento culture.
Prep10 mins
Cook20 mins
Serves4
Difficultyeasy
Ingredients
- 3 cups Japanese short-grain rice, freshly cooked and hot
- 1 tsp salt
- 100 g cooked salted salmon (sake), flaked
- 4 umeboshi (pickled plums), pitted and torn into pieces
- 2 tbsp seasoned kombu (tsukudani)
- 1/2 cup tuna mixed with 1 tbsp Kewpie mayonnaise and 1 tsp soy sauce
- 4 full sheets nori seaweed, each cut into thirds
- A small bowl of water mixed with 1/2 tsp salt (for wetting hands)
- Sesame seeds (optional)
Method
10 step-by-step instructions with timers and hands-free Cook Mode narration, in the OriginEats app.
- Portion scaling for any number of servings
- Auto-generated grocery list, grouped by aisle
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 220
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 2 g
