Is it just me or has fusion cuisine been the craze in the food world lately? Well here is something delicious you can throw back at those $$$$$$ restaurants for what they call “fusion.” I call this Spicy Mexican Onigiri~ Rice ball (Onigiri) filled with chorizo and cheese.
Onigiri is a Japanese snack that you can get almost anywhere in Japan. It’s light, it’s healthy and easy to eat on the go, kind of like a sandwich but smaller. Traditionally onigiri was shaped by hand and filled with roe (fish eggs), pickled plum (umi) , tuna, salmon or just plain rich with seasoning. Here, I filled it with cheese and chorizo because that’s all I had in my fridge when I made it, but the result was YUMMMM!
Here is how you make it-
Step 1- Cook short grained Japanese rice as directed (short grained Japanese rice is more sticky then other types of rice, so make sure to use short grained Japanese rice)
Step 2- Using freshly cooked warm rice and put into a rice ball mold. (If you dont have a mold do it the traditional way and shape it with your hands)
Step 3- Push a spoon into the rice ball forming a round imprint and fill the rice ball with cooked chorizo and cheese
Optional: sprinkle with rice seasoning
Viola! Spicy Mexican rice balls.
Don't forget to add some happy faces with seaweed cutouts!!
(Rice balls with happy faces are made wtih brown rice and filled with tuna)
This is great! How was it?
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