[Update:] Be sure to check out my easier, neater way to make onigiri! Onigiri are rice balls, usually with a tasty filling. They are very portable, and therefore are very popular for carry-along lunches. Part of their appeal lies in the fact that if you'
Onigiri are usually triangular balls of cooked white rice, with a filling in the middle. Because taste is more important than consistency, some use brown or flavored rice, and they’re also found in rounds, cylinders and occasionally in special shapes like stars or hearts. (Triangles are popul...
Yusuke Nakamura's love of rice balls started as a young child. “I didn't have much of an appetite so my mother would make onigiri, put them down and tell me it didn't matter if I ate them or not,” says Nakamura, the chair of the Onigiri Society, which organised the first onigir...
Chop up the plums and add them to the rice balls.[6] If you live near an Asian market, you can buy umeboshi. You may also be able to order it online. Umeboshi tends to taste only slightly sour. The blandness of the rice balances it out. 3 Mix bonito flakes with soy sauce if ...