Grilled rice balls（yakionigiri）. A favorite at Izakaya restaurants, Yaki Onigiri are Japanese grilled rice balls covered in savory soy sauce. With a crispy crust on the outside and soft sticky rice on the inside, these rice balls are simply irresistible and easy to make at home! Yaki onigiri, or grilled rice balls, are shaped balls of rice, with or without filling, that are grilled until the rice is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
These grilled rice balls are so easy to make, yet incredibly tasty!
Miso Yaki Onigiri, meaning "Miso Glazed Grilled Rice Balls", are a simple and delicious way to switch up your lunch or dinner side dish!
Check out my updated post on "Onigiri Rice Balls" for more ideas of how to make and shape Onigiri rice balls.
You can cook Grilled rice balls（yakionigiri） using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Grilled rice balls（yakionigiri）
- It's 300 g of rice.
- Prepare of Soy sauce.
- It's of a.
- Prepare 2 tsp of soy sauce malt.
- It's 2 tsp of mirin.
When grilled, glazed or cooked, they become yaki onigiri. Our cookbook of the week is The Gaijin Cookbook by Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying. Over the next two days, we'll feature another recipe from the book and an interview with one of the authors. Today we are showing you how to make grilled rice balls called yakionigiri in Japanese.
Grilled rice balls（yakionigiri） step by step
- Put rice and A in a bowl and mix..
- Hold into triangles.
- Heat the frying pan and bake until both sides are colored..
- Apply soy sauce with a brush and bake on low heat until both sides are colored..
Onigiri go way back in history; people in Japan ate rice balls over a thousand years ago, before chopsticks became common. It's not surprising that they started being grilled, too, which is what yaki onigiri are—grilled rice balls. Make plain Onigiri and set aside. Heat frying pan on medium low heat and melt butter. Mix together the mirin and miso, then spread on top of the rice balls.