{"id":13814,"date":"2015-08-19T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2015-08-18T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T21:39:28","slug":"mini-onigiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13814","title":{"rendered":"Mini Onigiri"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last time I posted anything food-related that didn’t feature\u00a0cookbooks was October of 2014 (this delicious cashew milk<\/a> that promptly made me break out in hives after overdosing on it for two days — I can eat the nuts by the bucketful without any issues, so that incident was a mystery).<\/p>\n

I give you mini onigiri<\/em>\u00a0— which translates to rice ball<\/em>, though the literal meaning is more along the lines of “squeezed” or “clasped”. They are also known as omusubi<\/em>. I felt that my diminutive snack\u00a0deserved a post of its own, just because it’s so darn adorable. Standing a smidgen higher than an inch, these tiny seaweed-adorned rice morsels were a runaway hit at K’s birthday party. It’s been two days since the festivities, yet I can’t stop making them. On a slightly more practical level, they would be a fabulous school lunchbox addition. Have the kiddos in your life resumed school yet? We have three more weeks to go till K starts fourth grade, and my mind is full of fall clothes and cute lunches.<\/p>\n

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You’d think that these would be incredibly labor intensive, but they’re super fun and fast to make. The secret weapon is this handy dandy mold:<\/p>\n

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I can’t remember where I got it since I’ve had it forever, but I did find online the other cube-shaped mold<\/a>\u00a0that I don’t use as much because I prefer the classic rounded triangular shape. This one<\/a>\"\" seems to come close, though I’m not sure if it’s as awesome as mine. As I was searching for onigiri<\/em> molds, I encountered a dazzling array of options — this penguin set<\/a>\"\"\u00a0sort of blows me away.<\/p>\n

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First, I cooked some rice; for the ones in the photos,\u00a0I blended in a mixture of sesame seeds and nori<\/em> flakes after the rice was done, but I normally just add a little salt. Then I snipped several strips of nori<\/em> or seaweed (roughly 3\/4″ x 2″). Next, I scooped a few tablespoons of rice into the mold and packed the rice in. Push the mold out of the clear casing, slap on a strip of nori<\/em> and voila! Yum, yum, yum. So far, I haven’t come across a soul who hasn’t delighted in these bite-sized\u00a0onigiri<\/em> — highly recommended!<\/p>\n

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The last time I posted anything food-related that didn’t feature\u00a0cookbooks was October of 2014 (this delicious cashew milk that promptly made me break out in hives after overdosing on it for two days — I can eat the nuts by the bucketful without any issues, so that incident was a mystery). I give you mini onigiri\u00a0— which translates to rice ball, though the literal meaning is more along the lines of “squeezed” or “clasped”. They are also known as omusubi. I felt that my diminutive snack\u00a0deserved a post of its own, just because it’s so darn adorable. Standing a smidgen higher than an inch, these tiny seaweed-adorned rice morsels were a runaway hit at K’s birthday party. It’s been two days since the festivities, yet I can’t stop making them. On a slightly more practical level, they would be a fabulous school lunchbox addition. Have the kiddos in your life resumed school yet? We have three more weeks to go till K starts fourth grade, and my mind is full of fall clothes and cute lunches. You’d think that these would be incredibly labor intensive, but they’re super fun and fast to make. The secret weapon is this handy dandy mold: I can’t remember where I got it since I’ve had it forever, but I did find online the other cube-shaped mold\u00a0that I don’t use as much because I prefer the classic rounded triangular shape. This one seems to come close, though I’m not sure if it’s as awesome as mine. As I was searching for onigiri molds, I encountered a dazzling array of options — this penguin set\u00a0sort of blows me away. First, I cooked some rice; for the ones in the photos,\u00a0I blended in a mixture of sesame seeds and nori flakes after the rice was done, but I normally just add a little salt. Then I snipped several strips of nori or seaweed (roughly 3\/4″ x 2″). Next, I scooped a few tablespoons of rice into the mold and packed the rice in. Push the mold out of the clear casing, slap on a strip of nori and voila! Yum, yum, yum. So far, I haven’t come across a soul who hasn’t delighted in these bite-sized\u00a0onigiri — highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cooking","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13828,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}