Hello everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, Grilled Rice Ball (Yakionigiri). It is one of my favorites food. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really deliciou

A favorite at Izakaya restaurants, Yaki Onigiri are Japanese grilled rice balls covered in savory soy sauce. With a crispy crust on the outside and soft sticky rice on the inside, these rice balls are simply irresistible and easy to make at home! Take onigiri to the next level!

Today we are showing you how to make grilled rice balls called yakionigiri in Japanese. Onigiri, also known as omusube, are portable snacks, often sold in Japanese convenience stores, which are traditionally stuffed with salty, tangy fillings, then wrapped in seaweed. When grilled, glazed or cooked, they become yaki onigiri.

The Ingredients need to make Grilled Rice Ball (Yakionigiri):

1. It’s 360 g of freshly cooked rice
2. You need of Proper amount of mixture of soy sauce and mirin (soy sauce mirin = 21) (onigiri sauce)
3. It’s of Sesame oil for greasing

With this easy recipe you will be able to prepare perfect yaki onigiri for bento lunches, appetisers, or snack Directly translating: yaki (焼き) = grilled onigiri (おにぎり) = rice ball, so you get grilled rice ball. They have a crispy outside that is almost burnt giving it a ton of flavour and on the inside, you have fluffy soft rice that is typically flavoured with a soy sauce based sauce. If you have made Onigiri (rice ball) before, add one more step and try Yaki Onigiri, crunchy grilled rice ball.

Step to make Grilled Rice Ball (Yakionigiri):

1. Wet your hands with water so that the rice wont stick. Make sure not to use salt because the onigiri will be seasoned by soy sauce later.
2. Place the cooked rice and hold it between your palm
3. Form the rice into a round or a triangle by pressing lightly with your both palm(I used a cling film so that the onigiri keeps clean.)
4. Grease the sesame oil on a frying pan then heat it.
5. Place the onigiri on the frying pan and grill both sides over medium heat.
6. Brush the onigiri sauce over each side of the onigiri and grill each side until crispy over low heat.
7. Serve on a nice plate and your grilled onigiri is ready!

The recipe can be as simple as placing the rice ball on the grill and brush with soy sauce when browned. Here, I even made it more simple by browning. Onigiri (おにぎり, Japanese rice ball) is like a sandwich in Western culture. Why dont you take rice balls wrapped in yaki nori (roasted seaweed sheet) with grilled salted salmon for lunch? Its such a simple food but it is so comforting and tasty that you cant stop eating.

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