How about onigiri

How about onigiri : Story

You know Japanese staple food is rice.Sushi, Gyudon,Katsudon, they are based on rice.So onigiri is based on rice, too. Onigiri is made by shaping rice into circle, then it is simple to make. And sometimes kids make onigiri by themselves. So, kids can have a practice cooking, with make a onigiri.

Onigiri is very popular food, from long years ago. We can find onigiri in Japanese folk story, for example, "Salukani gassen" or "omusubi cororin" The stories are national folk stories, so it is a evidence of that onigiri is national food. rice for onigiri

By the way, do you know that there are many kind in rice? In fact, a lot of kind in rice, there are.For example Sasanishiki, Akitakomachi, Koshihikari. And taste of rice is different, by kind of rice.Then, the price of rice is different by its kind. I think, Koshihikari is one of expensive.And generally, expensive rice such a Koshihikari is preferred.Because of its taste is so good.

Now let's remind about onigiri. And think the relationship about onigiri's taste and the kind of rice. In my experience, good onigiri is made by good rice. Especially, Koshihikari was the best.

Then if you want best onigiri, what will you do? My recommendation is to go to the prefecture that is active in agriculture. And Koshihikari is made in Niigata prefecture. Niigata prefecture is so far if you would see the Japanese map. However, Niigata is about 2 hours by super express.

And In Niigata you can taste a lot of seafood. Niigata is positioned by the Sea of Japan.And the seafoods are different to the Pacific side.So you can have delicious rice and good seafoods.

ingredients of onigiri

Now thinking about onigiri, it is pleasant to choose ingredients. Usually it would be umeboshi, salmon, fish egg, tarako or suziko, etc. I guess the most popular ingredient is umeboshi. But recently, various ingredient is contained. For example, yakiniku, tuna fish. It might be mismatched as onigiri's ingredients. However, the new ingredient's onigiri are so delicious. And you can buy the new ingredient's onigiri in convince store, generally.

Meanwhile, there is no ingredient onigiri. Shio musubi or yaki onigiri are. Shio musubi is tasted with only salt. And yaki onigiri is tasted with soy sauce, and grilled.

Anyway, in Japan there are various onigiri. So if you can visit to Japan, go to explore for onigiri!

How to cook yaki onigiri