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onigiri

Name: onigiri
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 cups short-grain Japanese rice; to taste salt; 2 sheets nori seaweed; 2 pieces pickled plum (umeboshi); 1 tablespoon soy sauce (optional)

Onigiri is a traditional Japanese rice ball, often shaped into triangles or ovals and typically wrapped with nori seaweed. It serves as a convenient, portable meal or snack, deeply ingrained in Japanese daily life and culture, symbolizing simplicity and the importance of rice in Japan.

5 ingredients

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Japanese85%

Chinese15%

Ingredients

short-grain Japanese rice
2 cups
salt
to taste
nori seaweed
2 sheets
pickled plum (umeboshi)
2 pieces
soy sauce (optional)
1 tablespoon

Method

Steps not available

Origin Story

Onigiri dates back to at least the Heian period (794–1185) when cooked rice was formed into balls for easy transport by travelers and warriors, making it an enduring staple of Japanese cuisine.

Culinary DNA

Ingredient ancestry breakdown

Japanese85%

ingredients+techniques

Chinese15%

ingredient_origin

Techniques

rice cooking shaping wrapping

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