Rice balls with shrimp in Japanese

A stunningly delicious traditional Japanese dish! Onigiri (or rice balls), a traditional dish of Japanese cuisine. According to its purpose, onigiri is close to a sandwich. It is eaten cold and most often outside the house - at work, at school, or during a trip. But Russian people like to do everything exactly the opposite, which is why, after reading this uncomplicated culinary recipe in one of my favorite publications, I decided to cook this food for my friends who came to visit me. So, the scheme of cooking rice balls is so simple that, perhaps, even a child can cook this dish. Well, let's get started!
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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 24 % 13 g
Fats 2 % 1 g
Carbohydrates 74 % 40 g
216 kcal
GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 10 min
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To start, we wash the rice about 10 times. During this time, it will gain enough moisture. We put half a glass of washed rice in a small saucepan, pour one glass of water and put it on high heat (at the same time we do not cover the saucepan with a lid). When the rice is just starting to boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for about 10-15 minutes more. After that, remove from the stove and put a waffle towel between the lid and rice. In this form, we insist rice for another 10 minutes. 
When the rice cools down a little, add rice vinegar to it and mix. We moisten our hands in water and rub a pinch of salt in our palms so that the rice does not stick to them. Now we begin to sculpt our rice balls. First, we make a ball of rice by squeezing it well so that it does not fall apart.
Then gently with your fingers we make a recess in the resulting ball and fill it with shrimp. Now we close our ball with another spoonful of rice, squeeze it well again, giving it the desired shape. For example, I made oval onigiri. Then we wrap a short strip of nori. We can say that the snack is ready. As a filling, you can use all the variety of products that are traditionally put in sushi and rolls: salmon, mussels, eel and much more. I am sure your guests will like this dish. My friends have already appreciated its excellent taste and often come to visit to taste it!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Canned shrimp - 81   kcal/100g
  • Boiled shrimp - 95   kcal/100g
  • Shrimps peeled frozen - 60   kcal/100g
  • Fresh shrimp - 97   kcal/100g
  • Raw wild rice - 353   kcal/100g
  • Brown raw rice - 360   kcal/100g
  • Boiled brown rice - 119   kcal/100g
  • White fortified raw rice - 363   kcal/100g
  • White fortified boiled rice - 109   kcal/100g
  • White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369   kcal/100g
  • Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106   kcal/100g
  • Instant dry rice - 374   kcal/100g
  • Instant rice, ready to eat - 109   kcal/100g
  • Fig - 344   kcal/100g
  • Nori - 3   kcal/100g
  • Table salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Rice vinegar - 20   kcal/100g

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