Japanese

Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls)

Name: Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 cups, cooked short grain rice; 5 oz canned tuna, drained; 3 tbsp japanese mayonnaise; 4 nori sheets; 1/2 tsp salt

Haruka @haruka_sendai

Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 cups, cooked short grain rice
5 oz canned tuna, drained
3 tbsp japanese mayonnaise
4 nori sheets
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Flake the drained tuna into a bowl and stir in the japanese mayonnaise.
Wet your hands lightly and salt your palms.
Take a handful of the warm rice, press a small well into the center, and spoon in a little of the tuna mayo.
Fold the rice over the filling and shape into a triangle, pressing firmly enough to hold together.
Wrap the base of each rice ball with a strip of nori and serve, the most eaten onigiri filling in Japan by a wide margin.

Watch how to cook Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Japanese breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 270 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbs: 37 g
Fat: 9 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 440 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tsuna Mayo Onigiri (Tuna Mayonnaise Rice Balls) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.