{"id":1175,"date":"2019-05-28T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imnotasaint.net\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:22:35","slug":"onigiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imnotasaint.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/28\/onigiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Onigiri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Onigiri, or rice balls, a staple food in Japan. They can be bought in a variety of flavours in all convenience stores. I moved schools at the start of April and I have leave earlier. This means that I no longer to cook some rice for my breakfast. So I make a slightly bigger pan of rice the evening before and make home made onigiri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First you need rice. It’s a bit of a pain waiting for it to cool down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These onigiri moulds can be bought in Daiso for 100 yen. There a flap at the bottom that allows you to push out the formed rice ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mould is filled with rice that it pushed down a bit and then you use your thumb to make a space for some filling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This time the filling was beef mince with green onions and okonomiyaki sauce. I had previously made a batch and frozen it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The microwaved filling is added along with a dollop of mayonnaise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rice is added on top…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…then pressed down with the lid of the mould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also have these onigiri cases (also from Daiso).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Usually you eat onigiri with a seaweed wrapper. This can be added until it is eating time otherwise the seaweed will absorb water from the rice and become a bit soggy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The onigiri you buy in the convenience store have quite an elaborate unwrapping system that combines the seaweed and rice together. It took me a couple of weeks to work out how to open them properly. I wonder what the Japanese people around me thought as I unwrapped the whole thing only to put it back together again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Onigiri, or rice balls, a staple food in Japan. They can be bought in a variety of flavours in all convenience stores. I moved schools at the start of April and I have leave earlier. This means that I no longer to cook some rice for my breakfast. So I make a slightly bigger pan… <\/p>\n

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