Onigiri is a traditional Japanese dish made of unleavened rice formed into a triangle or oval. This dish is much easier to cook than everyone's favorite rolls. Our recipe without rice vinegar, with a replacement for apple, is very simple. Any hostess will be able to repeat it at home and surprise her guests and household.
Ingredients
- Fig - 400 g
- Tuna - 130 g
- Green onion - 4 stems
- Sugar - 3 art.l
- Soy sauce - 4 tbsp.l
- Apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp.l
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.l
- Wasabi sauce - 1 tbsp.l
- Pickled ginger - 4 tbsp.l
- Miso paste - 2 art.l
- Nori - 2 pieces
Step-by-step cooking recipe
To make vinegar, mix sugar and salt in a deep dish. Add apple cider vinegar and hot water. Stir until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved.
Boil the rice. Season it with cooked vinegar and sugar. Mix it up. Spread the rice evenly on a baking sheet, cover with a sheet of parchment, greased with oil.
Chop 3 onion stalks into small rings, mix with miso paste and tuna, add black pepper.
Pour water and some rice vinegar into a bowl to dip your hands. Wet your hands and roll a small rice ball. Make a hole in the ball, place the filling there, cover the hole with rice. Form an oval or triangle from the ball.
To conveniently take them with your hands, wrap the ends in a strip of nori. You can garnish them with sesame seeds and serve with soy sauce, ginger and wasabi.
