5 mins each 🍙 6 Easy Onigiri recipes for beginners! Japanese Rice ball

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I cook simple and easy Japanese food with ingredients I can buy in Europe.

Hello everyone!
Thank you for visiting my channel 💐
I am Yuka, from Japan.

In this video, I'm going to show you 6 easy onigiri recipes!
Hope it will help you making onigiri outside Japan :)
You can check the Ingredients below👇

■Chapter
0:00 Intro
0:12 What is onigiri?
1:17 What rice you should use
1:55 Tuna × mayo onigiri
3:04 Sesame onigiri
3:39 How to wrap onigiri
4:49 Baked miso onigiri
5:45 Baled cheese onigiri
6:43 Wasabi onigiri
7:25 Olive & cheese onigiri

■Ingredients: （for one onigiri each）
★Tuna & mayo
150g rice
1tbsp tuna
1tbsp mayo
1tbsp soy sauce
1piece of seaweed

★Sesame
150g rice
1tbsp sesame seeds
1/2 tsp salt
1tbsp sesame oil
1tbsp soy sauce
1piece of seaweed

★Baked miso
150g rice
1/2 tbsp miso
1/2 tbsp sesame seeds

★Baked cheese
150g rice
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1/2 tsp bonito powder
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp sesame oil
Cheese

★Wasabi
150g rice
2-3cm wasabi
1tbsp sesame seeds
1tbsp soy sauce

★Olive & cheese
150g rice
15g olives
15g cheese

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[yuka_jp]

Hi! Some of the viewers told me that it was difficult to shape the onigiri. (I'm sorry to hear that but thank you for trying!) Here are some additional tips. Hope it helps 🙏🙏🙏

1. Use sticky rice.
2. If you put too much or too little water when you make rice, it would be difficult to shape it. For making rice, we usually put 200ml water for 1 rice cup (180ml of rice).
3. When you shape it, the rice should be hot or warm. The rice becomes less sticky when it’s cold.
4. If the amount of the fillings or ingredients are too much, it’s more difficult to shape it. Try to put less.

[bighatastrea]

It's so nice how you can use literally anything for them, like olive and cheese because it's in your fridge right now. I saw weird purists on reddit talk about how "a real onigiri" needs tuna/mayo filling and I was like "bruh wtf if a Japanese person lived in the West they'd probably just go to the grocery store and fill their onigiri with whatever they like"

[ukeitaa]

oh my gosh that aluminum foil trick is amazing!! thank you for sharing these recipes and tips!!

[Scuants]

These doughnuts are great, jelly filled are my favorite, nothing beats a jelly filled donut

[GaleGrim]

1:28 A small tip based on what I know about rice! The good rice types for rice balls are generally called "short grain rice" or "short rice". They are packed with more starch per grain then the long grain rice so they stick together easier cause starch is a type of sugar which is.. well... STICKY! Like sugar tends to be! Most European and North American rice are long grain, where as most Asian rices are short.

Good luck!

[bleachedkon]

There was a 7-Eleven next to my hotel in Japan so I would pop in every morning and buy the the tuna mayo onigiri or natto onigiri for breakfast. I tried recreating it when I returned home but it didn't taste the same. I didn't realize it was seasoned with soy sauce! I'm excited to try again. Thank you!

[hedgyverona]

I’ve been eating so many onigiri in uni because it’s cheap and fast to make and you can use any filling. I love using left overs in mine, literally anything is tasty with rice and it’s such a great, portable snack! Salmon is amazing as filling, probably my fav.

Also love that you made a western one because I love it when cultures and cuisines mix!!

[Narniaru]

I used to live in Japan (live in Spain like you!) and one of my fave things was not only ongiri but opening the special wrappings. The aluminium, tape trick looks perfect! Can't wait to try it

[austux]

Made this for my uni lunch because I usually spend an entire day there as it's pretty far away - a true life saver! I used to starve myself because shops don't really sell premade foods where I live

[idee]

Ingenious way to keep seaweed wrap crisp using foil.

[jazzvanravenswaay]

If you struggle to find Japanese rice: I tried with risotto rice and it works well too :)

[keng]

Spent 6 months in Sanda in the 90’s. I had forgotten who much I loved Onigiri. I have miso in the refrigerator and good Japanese rice. I know what’s for lunch tomorrow!! Domo arigatogoziamashita🙏

[pamelajoie]

Your channel is so helpful for people living outside Japan to cook these dishes. Thanks for creating this channel

[viivka]

I used round rice for onigiri and they came out great! Really didn't want to spend 7 euros on just 1 kilo of rice, it's really sad that prices on japanese products are so high here. Thank you for the video, it's really helpful!

[amandamoore]

Thank you so much!! I lived in Japan for 6 years as a kid and I've never been able to make these right! There are days I crave simple Japanese foods and I couldn't make them myself. Now I can!! Thank you!!

[kenreynolds]

Another trick is a shake of MSG in the tuna for authenticity. Japanese mayo has some in it already, but if you don't have any on hand, it works. I use sushi rice seasoned with a little mirin, rice vinegar & salt, plenty sticky. Tamagoyaki style egg with bacon in the middle is another hit.

[scraperindustry]

I love onigiri but tend to stick to just salmon or tuna mayo. Thank you for all the great variations!

[ha-bimora]

この人のおにぎりの包み方、天才！！！
アルミとテープ使うんだ…
こんな方法があったなんて知らなかったです！！
あと凄く美味しそう🤤

[adog]

Other filling ideas, kinda like how you can put almost anything on a sandwich and it turn out ok:
-cream cheese & smoked salmon (& cucumbers too?)
-Gamja Jorim (Korean Braised Potatoes/vegetables in a sweet soy sauce)
-Fried Spam, cut into small pieces (like Spam musubi)
-pickled/cured vegetables (kimchi, umeboshi, daikon radish, 'merican pickles)
-tempura anything (meat, vegetables, potatoes)
-plain, with furikake (Japanese rice seasonings)
-chicken (rotisserie, nugget, karaage, etc.)
-crispy tofu (sauced or plain)
-imagine BLT ingredients, but inside onigiri... would this be sacrilegous? (Kinda like how taco-rice is a thing in Okinawa, so maybe not...)
(clearly I'm hungry...)

[recklessjack]

thanks i never saw so many onigiri styles explainted in one Video thx really much love it