Grilled Spicy Tuna Onigiri

"Onigiri is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shapes and often wrapped in dried seaweed."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
11
Yields:
1 onigiri
Serves:
1
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ingredients

  • 141.74 g can tuna
  • 1 onion
  • 1 jalapeno
  • 1 sheet nori (dried seaweed)
  • For rice

  • 127.57 g rice (uncooked Korean or Japanese rice)
  • 14.79 ml sesame oil
  • 0.25 ml salt
  • For the sauce

  • 14.79 ml korean red pepper paste
  • 7.39 ml sugar water
  • 7.39 ml water
  • 14.79 ml sake
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directions

  • 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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