Onigiri (or Omusubi)- Rice Ball with seaweed paper

Onigiri (also called Omusubi) is very standard food in Japan, just like a sandwich in North America.

 

Ready in: 5 minutes with cooked rice

Ingredients for one ball:

1 cup of cooked sushi rice
1/8 of Nori seaweed paper
Some fillings

Step 1: Wet a small bowl and sprinkle some salt in it.

Step 2: Place a half cup of rice in the bowl and make a dimple in the middle.

Step 3: Put a filling in the dimple, and put the rest of the rice onto it to cover. Sprinkle some salt on it.

Step 4: Roll the bowl to put rice together like a ball.

Step 5: Wet your hands, and take the rice in your hands. Try to make a triangle ball.

Step 6: Put Nori around the ball.