The Three Riceketeers ^_^

Hello! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to post as consistently for the next week or so because I’ll be on vacation, but I figured I’d do one more before I head to Disney World~! Today’s recipe is Three Kinds of Onigiri! Onigiri are Japanese rice balls in the shape of triangles, and they normally have different fillings on the inside. So as you can guess, I’ll be giving you three different recipes for fillings. Have fun!

PORK, GARLIC, AND HONEY

Ingredients

·      7 oz pork belly

·      2 tsp crushed garlic

·      2 oz miso

·      2 tbsp honey

·      1 tbsp sake

·      Salt

Cook the pork belly by placing it in a pot of boiling water seasoned with a little salt, and once it’s fully cooked let it cool to room temperature. Combine the garlic, miso, honey, and sake in a bowl, add the pork, and pickle the meat by leaving it in the marinade overnight. Take the meat out and cut it into cubes.

CHICKEN, ONION, AND SALT

Ingredients

·      2 pieces of chicken breast

·      ¼ of a medium-sized onion

·      ¼ tsp salt

·      ½ tsp minced ginger, chicken bouillon, and sugar

·      ½ tbsp sesame oil, sake, and white sesame seed powder

Cook the chicken either in a microwave, stove, or boil with some salt, and shred it into pieces. Cut up the onion and cook it with the ginger, chicken bouillon, sugar, sesame oil, sake, and white sesame seed powder. Mix the chicken and onion together.

KOMBU AND CHEESE

Ingredients

·      2 oz mild cheese, such as Fontina, chopped into cubes

·      1 tbsp white sesame seed powder

·      3 tbsp chopped shio kombu

·      1 tsbp sesame oil

Mix all the ingredients together and taste-test to make sure the balance of cheese to kombu is appropriate.

BUILDING THE ONIGIRI

You’ll need lots of rice and nori seaweed to start creating the onigiri. Place a large piece of plastic wrap on the work surface in front of you and spread out a thin layer of rice in front of you. Place a little bit of the filling in the center of the rice, bring up the rice surrounding the filling using the plastic wrap, and create a ball of rice with the filling in the center and not falling out. Using your hands while the ball is still wrapped in the plastic wrap, form the ball into a triangle. Remove the plastic wrap, cut a small rectangle of nori big enough to cover a small part of the triangle on both sides like this:

 

 (from Google Images)

And then you’re all done! Enjoy~