Onigiri (japanese Rice Balls)

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb short-grain rice
• 8 umeboshi (dried plum)
• 8 nori (dried seaweed)
• salt

Recipe

• 1 cook the rice.
• 2 keep it warm, but let it cool enough so that it won't burn your hands.
• 3 cut each nori sheet into 9 strips.
• 4 wet your hands and sprinkle them with salt to prevent the rice from sticking to them.
• 5 mold a handful of rice into a triangular shape with an indentation in the middle.
• 6 press a piece of umeboshi into the indentation you left.
• 7 wrap the rice and umeboshi in nori strips.
• 8 serve immediately or save for later.