Grilled Spicy Tuna Onigiri - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (5 ounce) can tuna
    1/2 onion
    1/2 jalapeno
    1 sheet nori (dried seaweed)
    For rice
    4 1/2 ounces rice (uncooked Korean or Japanese rice)
    1 tablespoon sesame oil
    1 pinch salt
    For the sauce
    1 tablespoon korean red pepper paste
    1/2 tablespoon sugar water
    1/2 tablespoon water
    1 tablespoon sake
Preparation
    Cook rice with a rice cooker. You'll need sticky rice.
    When the rice is ready, add 1T of sesame oil and a pinch of salt to rice.
    Mince onion and jalapeno.
    Heat 1-2T canola oil in a frying pan.
    Stir fry the minced onion and jalapeno. When the onion turns clear, add tuna and the sauce. Mix them together and continue to stir fry for 1-2 minutes.
    Place half of the rice on your palm, press down to make it flat, just thick enough to hold the tuna. (like a burger patty).
    Place the spicy tuna in the middle of the rice.
    Cover it up with the rest of the rice.
    Shape the rice into triangle or circle. Put a rectangular piece of dried seaweed on the bottom of the rice.
    Heat 2T canola oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Place the rice and grill each side until they turn golden brown.

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