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Kombu Onigiri (Seaweed Rice Ball)

Kombu Onigiri (Seaweed Rice Ball)

🇯🇵 Japan20 minVegetarian
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Servings
2

Ingredients

Sauces & Seasonings

  • 0.5 tsp salt

Other

  • 400 g cooked Japanese short-grain rice
  • 60 g kombu tsukudani
  • 2 sheets nori seaweed

Instructions

  1. 1

    Lightly wet your hands and sprinkle a pinch of salt onto your palms.

  2. 2

    Take about 100g of cooked rice and gently form it into a loose ball in your palm. Make a small indentation in the center.

  3. 3

    Place a spoonful of kombu tsukudani into the indentation.

  4. 4

    Cover the filling with more rice, then gently compress and shape the rice into a triangle or round ball using your palms. Repeat for remaining rice to make more onigiri.

  5. 5

    Wrap each onigiri with a strip of nori seaweed, pressing gently to adhere.

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