Musubi Recipe

Musubi Recipe

(Japanese Rice Balls Recipe)

Ingredients:

hot cooked rice

goma sio (black sesame seeds and salt) or powdered nori (seaweed)

raw or smoked fish, optional

 

Method:

Cook rice and when cool enough to handle take about half cup rice and, with wet hands, roll into firm balls about 7.5 cm (3 inches) in diameter.  If using fish cut it into very thin strips and push a strip into the center of the rice ball, moulding the rice around it.  Roll the rice balls lightly in goma sio or powdered nori.

 

Note:  In Japan rice balls are usually taken on picnics and are sometimes filled with pieces of fish, raw or smoked.  They may also be very simply flavored with sesame seeds or seaweed.

 

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