I’ve been doing some experimenting recently making おにぎり (Onigiri) aka, “rice balls”. I’ve been taking it very literally as being a ball and have not added any Nori wrapping yet. I’ve been just sticking with variations of tuna and mayo that I read about online. It’s a pretty simple and easy dish to make, and I end up with enough for 2-3 meals from one batch, which is nice. Cook a cup (uncooked) or rice int he rice maker, dump it in a bowl with a can or two of tuna, spoon some mayo in, add whatever flavoring I want to try out, use an ice cream scoop to drop them onto a plate in “ball form”, and stick them in the fridge for an hour to cool.
Technically speaking, the ball part is kind of optional, but it feels “fancy” and makes them work really well with chopsticks.
Also, prepare for a bunch of images that all mostly look the same!
The first go at it was very basic, literally just tuna, mayo, white rice, and some teriyaki sauce. I didn’t have any soy sauce, so I figured the teriyaki would be close enough. They actually came out pretty tasty.
For Round 2, I invested in some proper soy sauce, and added some garlic to them.
I mixed it up again for round three, sticking with the soy sauce, but this time adding some curry powder to the mix. These were probably my favorite of all the flavors I have tested so far.
My last attempt was much less great.
For the 4th try, I had some Hoisin sauce floating around and decided to see how it would fare. The result wasn’t awful, but it was just kind of flavorless. Like very vaguely sweet maybe. This sauce also gave the rice balls a slightly more gooey consistency, so they didn’t stick together in ball form quite as well, which made them annoying to eat.
Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.