How to Cook Yaki Onigiri
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 2 hours
Cooking time: 20 mins
Ingredients needed to make Yaki Onigiri:
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 3 cups short-grain white rice, cooked
Cooking instructions for Yaki Onigiri:
- Place 2/3 cup of the cooked rice onto your moist palms and work them together with our palms to shape them into triangles.
- Smother the rice triangle with a lashing of soy sauce to coat well and place it on a plate.
- Shape rest of the rice triangles in a similar fashion until all of the rice is used up and let them rest for several hours at room temperature.
- Meanwhile, warm up your grill to low.
- Place the rice triangles on the hot grill grate, few a time to avoid over-crowding, and grill for about 10 minutes or until their base browns and turns harder.
- Turn them over carefully, using tongs, so that they don’t break down and grill the other side for 10 more minutes to brown evenly.
- Transfer them onto a plate and serve hot alongside a small bowl of soy sauce as a dip.
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