Japanese Style Onigiri

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Japanese Style Onigiri

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :30 Min

Cook Time : 45 Min

Total Time : 1 Hr 15 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 5
  • 1 1/2 cup Gobindobhog rice


  • 2 tablespoon Dill leaves (chopped)


  • 1 tablespoon Roasted sesame seeds


  • 1/4 cup Fresh coconut gratings


  • 1 teaspoon Salt


  • 1 cup Water


  • 1 cup Veggies (I have used finely chopped and cooked beans, carrot, cabbage)


  • 1/4 cup Spring onion green (chopped fine)


  • 1/4 cup Onion chopped


  • 1 teaspoon Crushed garlic


  • 1 tablespoon Pickle masala


  • 1 tablespoon Oil


  • 1/2 tablespoon Lemon juice


  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt


  • 2 nos Byadagi red chili


  • 1/2 tablespoon Mustard seeds


  • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder


  • 1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida


  • 1 teaspoon Oil

Directions

  • Soak the rice for 30 minutes in water. Heat a thick bottom wok, add water and soaked rice, cook the rice until done on medium flame (mine took around 30 minutes).
  • Now sieve the water and cool the rice. Keep this aside.
  • Take a pan, add ½ tbsp oil, dill leaves and fresh coconut, sauté well on medium flame until fresh raw smell vanishes. Keep aside this mixture until use.
  • Mix this roasted coconut dill leaves, sesame seeds with little salt to the cooked rice. Keep this ready for further use.
  • For pickle masala:
  • Roast red chili, mustard seeds in little oil, cool them. Take a mixer and powder red chili, mustard seeds, turmeric powder, asafoetida into fine paste. Keep this aside.
  • For stuffing:
  • Take a pan, add oil, sauté chopped onion, crushed garlic, until they are golden in colour. Add the cooked veggies and mix well.
  • Add the pickle masala paste, lemon juice, salt and spring onion green. Mix well and keep this aside.
  • Now take some water in a bowl, wet your palm and take one layer of rice on your palm, add the pickled vegetable stuffing in the center. Now add another layer of rice, close and prepare shapes (it can be cylindrical, circular or triangular).
  • Japanese Style Onigiri is ready to be served with sauce