Anyone for Onigiri?
 

高菜！！！！！

Or... カルビ.

I love tuna.
ツナ、おいしいよね。
Onigiri is a rice ball.

You sort of compact the rice first, into a lopsided ball, then make an indentation and put the filling into that. Then you sort of wrap the rice around the filling, shaping it into a round or triangular shape.

i love tuna, and chicken mayo.. yummy...

I`ve never heard of jelly..... Are you sure you`re thinking of onigiri and not mochi? I can imagine jelly in mochi, but never in an onigiri.

Personally, I don`t like tuna ones. The tuna gets weird and the whole onigiri gets funkily soggy.

i like tuna or that katsuobushi stuff

Prawn mayo, oshinko, umeboshi, salmon

I like sake (salmon) in ... yummmmy

i had one that was chicken with teriyaki sauce! yummy XD

Vienna sausage in teriyaki sauce.

As already mentioned before, syake, yakiniku, tuna mayo, fish eggs (forgot what this was called in Japanese) and umeboshi are the popular ones.

Also, i recommend Omusubi or a mixture of omusubi and onigiri. Omusubi is like adding furikake-like flakes in rice and mixing it together. I personally like this better as it has more flavors to it.

BTW, use the plastic wrap to make and store onigiri/omusubi. I find that to be much easier.

yakiniku gotta love teh meat <3

I agree with the people that said karubi and chicken mayo. Those are 2 of my favorites. There was another that was some salted fish, but I don't remember what it was called.

I'm sorry - I'm new to Japanese cooking....

How does one make a rice ball? I realize that the rice needs to be sticky for this, but I'm a bit confused as to the procedure...

---Rei

I've heard it needs to be short grain rice. But I've never seen it in stores. I only find long or medium grain. I don't really know why or how this makes a difference.

Onigiri Help
 

Hello. I need some help. I'm looking to find how to make onigiri, like a good website for it. I also heard that you need small grain for it, but can you make it with large grain and whatnot?
You can also e-mail me it, so I don't need to keep checking back here every day. xD Or IM me. I'm on a lot of the time. Thanks much!

-Sai-chan :pinkbow: ~Thank you~:pinkbow:

YouTube - How to make Onigiri

I'm not sure if you can make onigiri with long-grain rice. If it's sticky enough to be formed into balls in your hands, maybe yes... But do try short grain once as it's readily available in your country. We almost exclusively eat short-grain rice here in Japan.

It makes a world of difference. The rice needs to be very sticky when it's cooked, otherwise you won't be able to form it into hard balls. You may say you can make balls with long or medium grain rice, but the chances are that those balls will　probably fall apart while eating them.　

i am a terrible cook .. and luckily I make rice sticky by accident all the time ha ha!

Rice Balls
 

Can someone tell me in their words how they make their rice balls? The last lot I made were so disgusting and the time before that they wouldn't set properly, but it looked like I overcooked the rice.
I just want to know where I'm going wrong... it annoys me when I don't know how to cook stuff! Lol, o and the internet doesn't help me much, so don't tell me to look there =/
Thanks

i dont know how but my mom does:o

Useful, lol... maybe you could get your mom to type me a message telling me what to do and how to not make nasty tasting rice balls, lol.

you take some rice and shape it into a ball.. how much harder can it be??

of course you can add other things like furekaki to give it some flavor, but that is totally up to you.

raverboy

Actually it's not so easy like it sounds!

You can find english recipe for onigiris [Here]

I wish it was that easy!

Echan, thanks for the link, but:

I definitely don't think I'll be doing that to rice I'm going to eat! Lol, do you make rice balls from these instruction, because I followed one very similar before and the rice was just white mush. Lol... perhaps my purpose on this earth is to not attempt rice balls! =P

I can't believe you guys... Here's a video. But If you can't get short-grain rice where you live, forget about rice balls.

Pudding rice works the same! Plus Chinese supermarkets sell EVERYTHING... lol... hyperbolically of course.

I did everything she did there... lol... except I had to cook my rice in a sauce pan. Maybe she used less salt than me, and I used a bean filling [like to experiment with food] too... I can't stand mayonaise!
I'll just have to try again, you never know I might get it this time, but I'll go and get some rice from the Chinese supermarket [along with some lychee juice, pocky and sandwich cookies, yums =P] on Saturday rather than using pudding rice.
Thanks for the help everyone! =)

haha i honestly think that the harder or rather most annoying part is either washing the rice, or waiting for it to cook. the rest is easy. it's not like we are building a house or something to that level.

raverboy

What about dipping your hands in between each rice ball so you don't turn out as a rice-monster? It's annoying when the rice sticks to you not to other rice grains. Also cooking the rice to perfection, I have to cook mine on the hob, because I don't have a rice cooker. And guessing whether your rice tastes alright... I need my manners and it's not polite to gobble the food you're preparing!
You have to put quite a bit of effort into perfecting food. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and food freak and I have to say cooking seafood dishes is a lot easier than rice balls. [Used seafood as an example of a hard dish, because with no cooking instructions you have to guess when it's done based on trained site and the feel of it, whereas cooking things like chicken: if it's still bleeding and it's cold = not done] =P
Can I ask how much food you actually do cook as well? Assuming you're still rather young and go to school/college, I haven't looked at your profile. I'm the only one that prepares and cooks my meals, I won't let my mom/dad do it, so I get a lot of practice in [I'm 17 and go to college studying academic subjesct, not cooking or anything like that] lol. I guess we all have our own little things we find difficult in the kitchen as well.

like i said before, you're turning this little matter into something way out of proportion.

here's a suggestion because i won't want your hands to turn out looking like you just err..... you catch. next time, put a peice of saran wrap on the counter and place the rice in there, given you are making huge rice balls. use the saran wrap to surround the rice so it doesn't touch your hands and shape it into a ball. bing and you're done...

raverboy

No, I only make little ones... lol, I learnt from my huge ones not to make them that big, considering they don't fit in my lunch box. I'll just have to try again, but when I have time... too may essays to write at the moment.

I have made some before... I don't think they turned out quite right. They tasted okay but nothing special then again as I said I don't think I made them right.

here is rice ball recipe
 

I usually use a rice cooker, the rice just comes out better, and when i form the balls i make sure my fingers are wet with salt water to prevent the rice from sticking to my hands, The ones I make aren't very artisticly beautiful but the rice gets packed well. I can't describe it well, sorry @_@