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If you have never cooked Asian dishes, onigiri with crab sticks is a fairly simple and budget option to try yourself as a master of Japanese cuisine. Start with this simple recipe, and then improve your skills and experiment with new fillings.
Ingredients
- Round rice - 1,5 glasses
- Crab sticks - 100 g
- Water - 1,5 glasses
- Nori - 1 sheet
- Rice vinegar - 20 ml
- Sugar - 1 tsp.
- Salt - 0,5 tsp.
- Mayonnaise (sharp Japanese) – 15 g
- Avocado - 1 pcs.
- Sesame (black) – for decoration
Step-by-step cooking recipe
Wash the rice in cold water, boil until tender over low heat.
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Mix vinegar, salt and sugar. Pour the resulting mixture over the rice, let it soak.
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Grate crab sticks on a fine grater, combine with finely chopped avocado and mayonnaise.
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Form small cakes from rice, put the filling, another layer of rice on top, then form dense triangles.
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Cut the nori leaf into small rectangles and wrap each onigiri with them from the bottom.
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Sprinkle the finished onigiri with black sesame seeds, serve with soy sauce.
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