Onigiri
- 1 cup sushi rice
- 2 Tbs. unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1 Tbs. sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 34 sheets nori
- 34 ears canned baby corn, drained and cut into 1/2-inch-thick pieces, or 1/4 cup corn kernels
- 1/2 avocado, diced
- 12 shelled edamame beans
- Rinse and drain rice several times until water runs clear.
- Place in saucepan with 1 1/2 cups water, and bring to a boil.
- Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 12 minutes, or until all liquid is absorbed.
- Remove from heat, and let stand 1 minute.
- Whisk together rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in bowl.
- Add hot rice to bowl, and mix with spatula until rice has absorbed vinegar mixture.
- Spread on baking sheet, and let cool 5 minutes.
- Cut nori into eyes, noses, arms, ears, hair, whiskers, hats, etc., with scissors.
- Place square of plastic wrap over 1/2 cup ramekin or small bowl.
- Scoop 1/4 cup rice into center of plastic wrap.
- Press indentation in center with thumb, and fill indentation with baby corn piece, avocado cube, and 2 edamame beans.
- Cover with small plug of rice, and pull up sides of plastic wrap.
- Twist and squeeze plastic wrap around rice to make tight, smooth ball of rice around filling.
- Unwrap plastic wrap, and transfer onigiri to plate.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients.
- Decorate onigiri with nori, using drops of water as glue, if necessary.
rice, rice vinegar, sugar, salt, nori, baby corn, avocado, edamame beans
Taken from www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/onigiri/ (may not work)