Japanese

Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze)

Name: Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 cups, cooked short grain rice; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp mirin; 1 tsp sesame oil

Haruka @haruka_sendai

Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze) 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 Vegan Vegetarian Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 cups, cooked short grain rice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
1 tsp sesame oil

How to cook it

Wet your hands and shape the warm rice into thick triangles or rounds, pressing firmly enough to hold together.
Stir the soy sauce and mirin together in a small bowl.
Heat the sesame oil in a skillet or on a grill pan over medium heat.
Cook the rice balls for 2 to 3 minutes per side, brushing each side with the soy glaze as it crusts, until the outside is browned and slightly crisp.
Serve hot, made from yesterday's rice and the sort of breakfast that starts as leftovers and ends up requested on purpose.

Watch how to cook Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze)

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 Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze), 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. Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Fish	No
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: 180 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 38 g
Fat: 2 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 450 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

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

When to cook it

Yaki Onigiri (Grilled Rice Balls with Soy Glaze) 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.