5 mins each 🍙 6 Easy Onigiri recipes for beginners! Japanese Rice ball

Hi! Some of the viewers told me that it was difficult to shape the onigiri. (I'm sorry to hear that but thank you for trying!) Here are some additional tips. Hope it helps 🙏🙏🙏 1. Use sticky rice. 2. If you put too much or too little water when you make rice, it would be difficult to shape it. For making rice, we usually put 200ml water for 1 rice cup (180ml of rice). 3. When you shape it, the rice should be hot or warm. The rice becomes less sticky when it’s cold. 4. If the amount of the fillings or ingredients are too much, it’s more difficult to shape it. Try to put less.

It's so nice how you can use literally anything for them, like olive and cheese because it's in your fridge right now. I saw weird purists on reddit talk about how "a real onigiri" needs tuna/mayo filling and I was like "bruh wtf if a Japanese person lived in the West they'd probably just go to the grocery store and fill their onigiri with whatever they like"

oh my gosh that aluminum foil trick is amazing!! thank you for sharing these recipes and tips!!

These doughnuts are great, jelly filled are my favorite, nothing beats a jelly filled donut

There was a 7-Eleven next to my hotel in Japan so I would pop in every morning and buy the the tuna mayo onigiri or natto onigiri for breakfast. I tried recreating it when I returned home but it didn't taste the same. I didn't realize it was seasoned with soy sauce! I'm excited to try again. Thank you!

1:28 A small tip based on what I know about rice! The good rice types for rice balls are generally called "short grain rice" or "short rice". They are packed with more starch per grain then the long grain rice so they stick together easier cause starch is a type of sugar which is.. well... STICKY! Like sugar tends to be! Most European and North American rice are long grain, where as most Asian rices are short. Good luck!

I’ve been eating so many onigiri in uni because it’s cheap and fast to make and you can use any filling. I love using left overs in mine, literally anything is tasty with rice and it’s such a great, portable snack! Salmon is amazing as filling, probably my fav. Also love that you made a western one because I love it when cultures and cuisines mix!!

I used to live in Japan (live in Spain like you!) and one of my fave things was not only ongiri but opening the special wrappings. The aluminium, tape trick looks perfect! Can't wait to try it

If you struggle to find Japanese rice: I tried with risotto rice and it works well too :)

Ingenious way to keep seaweed wrap crisp using foil.

Other filling ideas, kinda like how you can put almost anything on a sandwich and it turn out ok: -cream cheese & smoked salmon (& cucumbers too?) -Gamja Jorim (Korean Braised Potatoes/vegetables in a sweet soy sauce) -Fried Spam, cut into small pieces (like Spam musubi) -pickled/cured vegetables (kimchi, umeboshi, daikon radish, 'merican pickles) -tempura anything (meat, vegetables, potatoes) -plain, with furikake (Japanese rice seasonings) -chicken (rotisserie, nugget, karaage, etc.) -crispy tofu (sauced or plain) -imagine BLT ingredients, but inside onigiri... would this be sacrilegous? (Kinda like how taco-rice is a thing in Okinawa, so maybe not...) (clearly I'm hungry...)

I used round rice for onigiri and they came out great! Really didn't want to spend 7 euros on just 1 kilo of rice, it's really sad that prices on japanese products are so high here. Thank you for the video, it's really helpful!

I love onigiri but tend to stick to just salmon or tuna mayo. Thank you for all the great variations!

Spent 6 months in Sanda in the 90’s. I had forgotten who much I loved Onigiri. I have miso in the refrigerator and good Japanese rice. I know what’s for lunch tomorrow!! Domo arigatogoziamashita🙏

Your channel is so helpful for people living outside Japan to cook these dishes. Thanks for creating this channel

Who is here cause they saw them in anime?

Thank you so much for this I love seeing ethnic people make their own food tutorials. I KNOW that this is authentic and I cannot wait to try

Thank you so much!! I lived in Japan for 6 years as a kid and I've never been able to make these right! There are days I crave simple Japanese foods and I couldn't make them myself. Now I can!! Thank you!!

Made this for my uni lunch because I usually spend an entire day there as it's pretty far away - a true life saver! I used to starve myself because shops don't really sell premade foods where I live

I tried two of your onigiri recipes today - they are really great! I never made anything similar, so I was prepared to fail, but the outcome was surprisingly good. I tried the one with tuna and the one with cheese for my kids. thanks a lot for your videos, I really enjoy them!