Onigiri is a rice dish with a strong Japanese flavor, and making onigiri shows people’s superior skills in using rice. There are many types of onigiri, with various styles, giving people a rich space of enjoyment. The most classic one is the seaweed onigiri, which has a taste full of sea flavor and can quickly stimulate people’s taste buds, making them hungry. Let’s take a look at the method of making seaweed onigiri below.

1. After the rice is cooked, pour it into a large pot, use a slanted cutting method to scatter the rice, add sushi vinegar while tasting, adding a small spoon at a time, and mix well. Commercial sushi vinegar is not very sweet, so add sugar according to personal taste and mix well, then let the sushi rice cool down to allow it to absorb the flavor.

2. Handling of the ingredients for the curry flavor

After cutting the onions into pieces, quickly blanch them, drain them, wrap them in paper towels, and pat them to ensure all the moisture is dried. The pork slices are cut into strips, and the millet is used by cutting the pork slices into strips and boiling them. It is not recommended to use the pork shreds commonly used for stir-frying, as they are too thick and difficult to shape when wrapping. Add a little cooking wine during boiling to remove the smell.

3. Handling of the ingredients for the seaweed flavor

The dragon beard noodles are boiled and chopped. The bamboo shoots are drained of oil and dried with paper towels. For a healthier option, you can rinse with hot water, but if you use the second method, some of the deliciousness of the bamboo shoots will be taken away by the hot water, and then they need to be chopped. The dried mushrooms are added to the pot with water, soy sauce, and mirin, the amount depending on personal preference, and boiled for 5 to 10 minutes. After cooling, slice them.

4. After preparing the ingredients, divide the rice into two small pots, add curry flavor (excluding cheese slices and lettuce) and seaweed flavor prepared materials, mix well, cover with plastic wrap, place the rice and start to roll and flatten! Remember to use a thin layer of rice to place the cheese slices first for the curry flavor, then add a layer of rice filling on top, press tightly to expel air, and then shape it properly.