Craving Japanese: Onigiri

If you're an anime fan, then you must also love anime este Japanese food.  FYI, Mudrah's baby girl is a cosplayer and loves Japanese food, so Mudrah is rolling her sleeves and learning to make onigiri to satisfy the Japanese cravings of her baby. Hello baby girl!

Japanese onigiri is basically white rice (binolang kanin) wrapped in nori (seaweed).  It can be filled with anything salty to preserve it like salmon, tuna, bacon, cheese, or basically anything that goes with rice.  My personal favorite is Spam or Maling!

For this onigiri, the filling is made of bacon bits, slices of cucumber and Best Food Mayo Magic as a binder. Of course, Kewpie Mayo works great too!  To achieve best results, you have to use Japanese rice you can purchase at SM Supermarkets at a little over Php100.  The rice used here was purchased for Php118/kilo.  You also need an onigiri mold to make the job a lot easier.  The onigiri presented here had to be shaped manually, which takes time as the rice sticks to your fingers. It is also better to use molds because onigiri has to be shaped while the rice is still piping hot, otherwise, the rice will start to crumble and molding will be extra difficult.

Visit cooking cute for a step-by-step instruction on how to make onigiri.

Next recipe...okonomiyaki!!!