I need a good recipe for rice balls...?

Question:

Can any one give me a good recipe for rice balls please. A simple but delicious one will do.

Answer:

This is my favourite recipe for Japanese Onigiri (rice ball). This recipe is very simple and easy.

Ingredients

• 5 cups hot cooked Japanese style short-grain rice
• 4 sheets dried nori seaweed

For the Filling
• dried bonito flakes (moistened in soy sauce)
• salted salmon grilled
• umeboshi (pickled plums)
• 2 Tbsp black sesame seeds toasted

Method

1. Wash and cook the rice. Onigiri is made while the rice is still hot.
2. Slightly toast the nori sheets and cut sheets crosswise into 1-inch widths.
3. Toast the black sesame seeds in a dry frying pan.
4. Prepare your different fillings
- the salted salmon should be broken up into small pieces
- pit the umeboshi (pickled plums)
5. Form the triangles – When handling the hot rice, keep your hands moistened with salty water to season the rice slightly and keep it from sticking to your hands.
6. Place a handful of rice (about ½ cup) across the bent fingers of your left hand. Make an indentation in the rice and tuck in about a tsp of one of the fillings (Salmon. Plum, or Bonito flakes).
7. Use your index finger, middle finger, and thumb to mold the triangular shape.
8. Set the rice triangles down on their bases and cover each with a strip of nori seaweed.
9. Sprinkle one or both ends with the sesame seeds.

Japanese Onigiri Recipe
http://japan-australia.blogspot.com/2010…