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1. 

   

   Gather your materials. Short grain rice is best for this because it's the stickiest, and you can use anything you want as a filling -- umeboshi, tuna and mayonnaise, salted salmon, pickles... whatever.

2. 

   

   Cover up 1 1/2 cup rice with 2 cups water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and let it stand for 20 minutes. Take it off the heat and let it cool down for about 5-10 minutes under the pot cover.




3. 

   

   Take a small cup and put saran wrap in it, draping a good bit over the sides. You can shape it with your bare hands, but this method doesn't burn...
   Wet your hands with water and a bit of salt. If you want, splash in a bit of rice vinegar and salt into the saran wrap-- either for taste, or just if you want the rice to stick together better.

4. 

   

   Put in a blob or rice, make an indentation in the middle of it, and place a bit of your filling there. Cover with more rice.




5. 

   

   Twist the saran wrap into a little bag and press the rice together.

6. 

   

   Shape the ball of rice into a triangle (or a sphere, or just a ball). I (badly) drew in my other hand to show how to squish it into a triangle, since it was busy holding the camera. :P

7. 

   

   After you're done making the rice balls, set them aside and cut the seaweed paper into strips, if you have it. It's not necessary, but it makes picking up the onigiri easier.

8. 

   

   Wrap the seaweed paper around the onigiri any way you want, or cut it up into shapes-- and voila! You have yourself some tasty onigiri.

9. 

   

   These are my boyfriend's first ever onigiri (before he put them on a plate). :D

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Sugarlishes

24 Apr 12:30

neat! looks very yummy!

JellyBean Bunny

24 Apr 13:11

Thanks for sharing. =)

Anna the Ewok

24 Apr 18:49

Several months ago, I was trying to figure out how to make onigiri. I wish you would have had this up then! It is by far the easiest "how to" I found on the subject, and you even said that you don't have to use the plumb stuff!

Thanks for making the lives of others easier! I'll be sure to point others this way when they ask how I make it. *hugs*

Masha V.

24 Apr 20:46

Welcome -- I'm glad you liked it! *hugs back*

Mort

28 May 18:13

Really good! Very clever with the saran wrap! I always wondered how this was made!

Jennie S.

11 Jun 18:23

Woop! It worked, cheers :). And your bf's crazy... Umeboshi are yummy (and super good for you). xX.

Masha V.

12 Jun 08:07

Yes he is -- I've never known anyone else who keeps a jar of peanut butter with him at all times (with a spoon in it) to dip marshmallows in. O_o

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19 Jun 22:26

I made some but they fell apart x'((

Masha V.

19 Jun 23:49

Aww. :( Did you use shortgrain rice? Maybe it wasn't starchy enough... ><

Stellar Toaster

22 Jun 22:53

num num num. i went to a store and the nice lady gave me cooked rice and seaweed. Next time I would pound the rile flat on top of some saran wrap and then add a filling.

WEREWOLFIE

09 Jul 08:00

I made some like this before in my school's asian culture club....except for our club's didn't have the plums in the center..we used fish(mostly salmon)and date fruit.
Mine didn't turn out half as good as yours though....:(

Riechan

11 Jul 14:33

Now I have to try this !
I think I will be making this next week or so !
any other ideas for filling? since I don't have an Asian supermarket around here ...

Wickedfara

11 Jul 17:51

yummy!!! I'll probably try them out too, sooner or later!! :)

Britt-chan

27 Jul 22:28

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! <3 i'm going to make them for lunch ^_^

LIFEminusBureaucracy

10 Aug 16:39

Yum, making mine right now.. Threatening my sister with not letting her have any.

Lovette'sz-xoxo

16 Sep 03:07

i have never tried these before
what do they taste like

< yes i live under a rock...dont laugh : [ >

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April 24, 2009 12:11

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