Simple and easy step by step onigiri?

[panur_links]

I have found some online recipes, but I'm a bit leery of tryign them as I don't have the um... the shape-thingies you put the rice in, and while I keep reading you can make them by hand, I sincerely can't imagine how D

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[panur_links]

Oh, thank you! The chicken salad sounds like a great idea! question, what to do if I don't have the rice steamer?

[tisiphone]

I don't have links, but making onigiri by hand is just like making a snowball! You take some rice (a small handful will do for a medium one), then just squeeze it together and make it sort of triangular or sort of egg-shaped. It takes some practice to get them uniform, but it's really very easy.

[panur_links]

thanks for the advice!

[nightengalesknd]

This is how I make mine. If I'm using a filling, I put about half the rice I want into one of my salted hands and poke a hollow into it, put the filling into the hollow, and then scoop the rest of the rice on top. I push around the edges to seal it in, and then smoosh with both hands snowball style.

www.justbento.com has instructions, pictures and filling ideas.

[kireic]

Seconding this. I flatten mine a little and make triangles or squares sometimes too.

[stryck]

I learned to make onigiri from this website:

http://justbento.com/handbook/bento-basics/onigiri-omusubi-faq

Read, follow the links! It's not that hard.

I browned some hamburger and stirred in some soy sauce and ground ginger for a tasty filling on the cheap.

[nightengalesknd]

And the one I posted, so thirded or fourthed!

[oracleangel]

Second this link too. It's all about the rice -- get the wrong rice, get terrible-fall-apart onigiri.

[ionracas]

We are right in the middle of tangerine season:)

[panur_links]

Yosh, I shall post the recipe on saturday~♪

[ronin001]

there is the Youtube video which is pretty concise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOmKiJDkA4

Onigiri isn't really that hard to do, but it takes a bit of understanding proportion at first, where it was explained to me originally "Start with more rice than you think you need and less filling than you really want" and just work on getting the technique down. Yes...your first onigiri are basically gonna be starchballs that will put you in a rice coma after 3 bites and you won't even get to your filling, but with practice you'll be able to make them to any shape or size that you want.

Really what you'll be focusing on is what someone else recognized as a "snowball technique" like the video illustrates, as ultimately, a filling centered sphere is your initial shape, where after that you just sorta press it into a triangle.