I second the rice cooker. My Zojirushi rice cooker makes perfect rice every time. Also, you have to be using Japonica rice. Other short grains may work, but Japonica rice is the kind they use in Japan (obviously) and is characterized by its slightly sweet taste and sticky quality. You can also buy onigiri presses that shape the rice ball perfectly for you - no need to do it by hand, and they're dirt cheap.

try buying sushi rice from an asian market, it looks like tiny almost flat peices of something..>< wash it until the water is translucent. After cooking, fluff your rice but not too much or the sticky consistency will dissapear. wet ur hands good with water. put a huge glop of rice in ur hand and start to make a balll shape, then make ur hands perpendicular and form the triangle shape. lightly salt the onigiri and wrap in seaweed. u can also burn some salmon to put inside.

by burn, i mean fry but use VERY LITTLE oil.

Rice balls
 

Can anyone explain rice balls to me....I seriously want to make some...help needed:confused:

cook rice then make it into a ball! ..at least, that's how they do it in the anime. v_v

that easy huh...

You salt the rice, and roll it into a compacted ball. Most people squish it a bit, then flatten it partly and put some sort of filling in it, then roll the ball around that.
It`s also pretty normal to wrap a sheet of nori around the outside.

That sounds pretty good. Before I had some sort of potato ball from Japan , it is treat over there, but did not like it too much. I had a weird texture and taste, but the rest of my family really liked it.

Oh thank you all...you wonderful people!!!!

I just learned how to make onigiri last week in class. I made one with Salmon. The other one with a tuna/soy/Japanese mayo mix and we wrapped it in Nori. It's very easy to prepare, although, I haven't tried it on my own yet. I don't know how to make sticky rice and don't own a rice cooker or steamer to make things easier for me.

Seems that once you get the hang of making it, it comes easier and you can experiment with it.

Links:
Onigiri - How to make them work.
Onigiri(Rice ball) is pretty easy to do, but you need to be careful when you cook the rice.

lol really cool Link, im gonna try it out sometime thnx

:D

The rice takes a while to make, but rice balls are easy to make.
Unless your trying to do something unusual, like fry them.
Onigiri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rice ball recipe - Onigiri - Japanese rice recipe

Now I really wanna make some... *begins to look on the internet for exact recipes and how to dos*

I didn't see that you put those there... Me gonna look at that....

Ooooh right, I see it much clearer now... :rolleyes:

That sounds incredibly yummy!
I should start making some myself :p

I'm learning to make these too! I'm going to Borders tomorrow to get a Japanese Cook Book. I have Rice, Salt, Udon Noodles, and Ramen, but I need to get more! And make BENTOS! I love Japanese food, and I need to learn to cook, because in my dream relationship I cook for my dream girl! :rheart: :D :p :cool:

i like sweet onigiri (like tohru! ^.^)

I made some onigiri for lunch for my sisters and I yesterday. A couple of them fell apart, but other than that it was good. I stuffed them with some tofu teriyaki chicken and it tasted really good.

HAHAHAHA!!

how Ironic!


I had onigiri for breakfast! (although it was around noon when I had this "breakfast")

They sell these packages at Marukai().

You just make the rice, stick in whatever you want in the middle, place the rice and your filling on the mat they give you(it's filled with nori) and wrap up the rice in a triangle shape and hold it down with a bright orange sticker that comes with the nori. Then come back to it when you wanna eat it, upwrap it by the pullstring type thing it has, and carefully peal off the plastic.


It works pretty well and you don't need salt or tezu or anything. But I forgot to put in the ume I was gonna put in the middle, so I went without.

And, for the record, I made a plushie in the shape of onigiri!
It's very cute!

Onigiri? I love onigiri. I had my very first one the other day. It was very good :3

You must get SHORT-length rice and it will stick together after you salt it. Put whatever you want inside and put some seaweed wrap-stuff on so the contents inside don't spill out randomly! :) Enjoy.

Anyone for Onigiri?
 

Just wanted to know, has anyone on this forum tried onigiri? It's supposed to taste nice...

It taste really nice!

i like katsuobushi onigiri :vsign:
and umeboshi

I'm from Italy and bread is THE thing I can't do without in my diet.
Yes, that's my fundamental food.
While in Japan I found onigiri are a great substitute.

Am I the only one here who think sushi is a little bit boring?
It's very good but still a little bit boring..

Sometimes I find it a bit boring too. I do like it though ^^

How to make Onigiri
 

I am looking for different way of making Onigiri, can anyone help?

Bento Box

No offense, but there are faster and easier ways to find things out than asking here.

Different than what?

You can always use google.

　Thanks mina san! I googled it too, but it seems that the onigiri varies in flavor. I wonder if they add some ingredient to make it taste more than just rice and salt

Did you even read the links we sent you?

Yea, I googled that one too.