Onigiri - Plain Japanese Rice Balls
From neoncrucifixion 16 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 10
For those of you who just want a simple side dish that goes with any meal, these plain onigiri (rice balls) are sure to be an instant hit!
Ingredients
- 6 cups of cold water shopping list
- 2 cups of white rice shopping list
- 2 cups of hot water shopping list
- a rice cooker shopping list
- Optional: shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon pureed/mushy garlic shopping list
How to make it
- Place the rice in a large bowl and fill it with 2 cups of cold water. Wash the rice by stirring it around in the water until the water is opaque from the starch that coated the rice.
- Using a colander, empty the water from the bowl.
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 two more times or until water no longer becomes murky from the starch.
- Put the washed rice and then the 2 cups of hot water in the rice cooker (if you choose to add salt and/or garlic to the rice, now would be the time to place it in the rice cooker) and press the "cook" button or whatever you press to start the rice cooker.
- Once the rice is cooked, place the rice in a bowl and cool it for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
- After the rice has cooled, take about 2 heaping tablespoons of the rice into your (clean!) hands and mold the rice into whatever shape you want. The traditional shapes are either circular or triangular.
- Serve or store!
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