This is a Japanese food that’s a little like a rice sandwich.
Ingredients
- 150g sushi rice
- Filling (I’m using a tin of sardines)
- 1 sheet of nori
Method
Filling
I just fried and mashed the sardines.
Rice
You need to use sushi rice, which is a lot stickier than other types. It needs to be rinsed before cooking to get rid of the starch. For the amount of rice here I cooked it in 175g of water, leaving it to sit for 20 minutes before turning on the rice cooker, and then leaving it for another 20 minutes once it was done to steam. After that I took out the rice and spread it onto a plate to cool.
Assembly
You need to wet your hands for this, and rub a very small amount of salt into them to stop the rice sticking to them. First make a layer of the rice in your non-dominant hand.
Then partly cover with some of the filling.
Then cover the lot with more rice.
First make a rough ball shape by closing over your dominant hand.
Then you make a triangle shape. First flatten your non-dominant hand and making and arch with the other, pressing lightly. Then rotate the rice ball and repeat several times.
Wrapping
I crisped up my nori sheet in a frying pan, I had to keep hold of it and flip it over every few seconds to stop it burning.
Then I cut the nori sheet into thirds.
I placed one of the rice balls onto the middle of one of the cut parts of nori sheet.
Then folded over to cover the sides.
The sheet sticks to the rice like a glue, so to finish off I tucked one side onto the rice for a couple of seconds then removed. I then stuck the other side down onto the rice, and the first side with with rice residue on top.
