I remember your first attempt! The shape looks great this time. If you want a little room for improvement, they do look a little squished, like you maybe pressed a little too hard, or the rice was very soft to begin with.
WrongOnEveryCount
This looks great. There are pressed types which you’re making.
When eating at a sit down, I prefer the looser ‘gathered’ type with a lot of stuff inside and on top.
If you’re open to a little advice hailing from my grandmother… when you’re shaping you want to press inward NOT press sideways to the onigiri surface to prevent the rice from smearing. Yours so have some smearing.
Do you put salt in your hands before shaping? We wet our hands with saltwater before shaping and typically stuff with umeboshi.
kayayem
The rice looks a little wet and squished, but the shape is good. Did you use rice vinegar?
Exotic_External_9704
Should stop at 2
Pripus
So just a couple notes, you either your rice was way too wet or your hands were too wet when handling the rice. You want a cohesive but fluffy rice ball, try to avoid pressing with any heavy pressure so as to avoid condensing your rice. You can stuff an onigiri with pretty much whatever you want, I personally like karaage in mine. Also you don’t really wanna use sushi rice for onigiri, it’s too sticky, you generally would either do plain white rice or lightly salted with maybe a tiny amount of sugar. Look up videos for onigiri bongo or their site for filling ideas/how some really fantastic onigiri look in tokyo.
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I remember your first attempt! The shape looks great this time. If you want a little room for improvement, they do look a little squished, like you maybe pressed a little too hard, or the rice was very soft to begin with.
This looks great. There are pressed types which you’re making.
When eating at a sit down, I prefer the looser ‘gathered’ type with a lot of stuff inside and on top.
If you’re open to a little advice hailing from my grandmother… when you’re shaping you want to press inward NOT press sideways to the onigiri surface to prevent the rice from smearing. Yours so have some smearing.
Do you put salt in your hands before shaping? We wet our hands with saltwater before shaping and typically stuff with umeboshi.
The rice looks a little wet and squished, but the shape is good. Did you use rice vinegar?
Should stop at 2
So just a couple notes, you either your rice was way too wet or your hands were too wet when handling the rice. You want a cohesive but fluffy rice ball, try to avoid pressing with any heavy pressure so as to avoid condensing your rice. You can stuff an onigiri with pretty much whatever you want, I personally like karaage in mine. Also you don’t really wanna use sushi rice for onigiri, it’s too sticky, you generally would either do plain white rice or lightly salted with maybe a tiny amount of sugar. Look up videos for onigiri bongo or their site for filling ideas/how some really fantastic onigiri look in tokyo.
What type of use do you use to make this? 🥰
Jelly filled donuts are my favorite.