Onigiri Sushi (Rice Balls) – A Detailed recipe cooking. Time: 2 час. 10 min. Difficulty: easy Quantity: 8 pcs. The recipes use dimensional capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 225 gr. salmon fillets
- 1/4 Art. katsuobushi (dried flakes of tuna bonito)
- 4 tbsp. dry round grain rice
- 2 sheets of dried nori seaweed or pre-fried nori sheets
- 5 and 3/4 Art. water
- 2 coarsely chopped large pickled plums (remove bone)
- 1.5 tsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp. l toasted black sesame seeds
Recipes with similar ingredients: round-grain rice, sea seaweed, nori, plum, tuna, salmon, soy sauce, sesame
Recipe preparation:
- Sprinkle salmon fillet with salt and leave for 2 hours.
- At this time, rinse the rice thoroughly with cold water (for 30-60 min before cooking) and leave in a colander so that the glass water. Put the rice in a thick-walled pan with a tight lid, pour water and put on a moderate heat. When the water starts to boil, increase the heat to strong and give well to boil. Reduce heat to low and cook until liquid absorbed in rice, about 12-13 minutes. Turn off the fire and leave the rice under the lid for 10-15 minutes. Flat wooden spoon or spatula for rice, mix the rice with cutting movements. Pull under the cover towel and cover the pan tightly to keep warm.
- Fry nori sheets on a high flame gas burner and cut across strips 2.5 cm wide. or use already fried nori. Mix katsuobushi with soy sauce. Rinse with salmon salt, dry the fish and grill for 3-5 minutes. Fork divide the salmon into small pieces.
- Moisten your hands with salt water so that the rice does not stick to your hands. Fold a palm in a cup and put a handful of rice, about 1/2 tbsp. Make a deepening in the rice and put one of the fillings there: tea a spoonful of swollen bonito flakes, a few slices of salmon or a few slices of pickled plum. Wrap rice on top of the filling and form a triangle. Squeeze the rice firmly with your hands so that it stick together well. Put a triangle of rice on one of its sides and cover the top with a strip of nori with the shiny side out, as the roof. You can also make onigiri in the form of cylinders and wrap a nori leaf in the middle. Sprinkle onigiri with sesame seeds. it serve a great meal for lunch.