Yaki Onigiri Pan Fry Method
This is how to make the best sweet and savory yaki onigiri (Japanese grilled rice ball) in a pan with only 6 ingredients.
Ingredients
- 300 g Cooked Japanese short grain rice Use hot rice. If it is a day old, then heat it up before molding. If the rice is cold, it will not hold its shape
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1/2 tbsp Mirin
- 1/2 tbsp Sake
- 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- Neutral oil to pan fry
- Water small bowl of water to wet hands when shaping onigiri so the rice does not stick to hands
Filling
- 3 oz Spam 1/4 of spam can
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Mirin
- 1 tbsp Sake
- 1 tbsp Sugar
Instructions
Filling
- Cut up spam into small pieces (the smaller the pieces, the easier it will be to fill onigiri)
- In a pan, on low heat, pan fry spam for a few minutes until spam is crispy
- Then add in soy sauce, mirin, sake, and sugar
- Continue cooking until the sauce thickens and caramelizes
- Once sauce thickens, put it aside to use later
Make the sauce for yaki onigiri
- Combine soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar in a small microwave safe bowl
- Heat in microwave for 15 seconds (this will melt the sugar)
To make onigiri
- Take about 75g of cooked hot rice and place it in hand
- Take a small spoonful of cooked spam and place it in the middle of the rice
- Take another 75g of cooked hot rice and cover the spam
- Shape the rice into an onigiri triangle with hands (you can use an onigiri mold as well)
- Make 2 onigiris
Pan fry method
- Oil pan and turn on stove to low to medium heat
- Place onigiri in the pan and cook for a few minutes until one side is crispy
- Then flip and cook the other side
- If you want all the sides to be crispy, then place the onigiri on the side and cook all 3 sides
- Once the onigiri is at the desired crispiness, lower heat to low
- Brush on the yaki onigiri sauce on one side and flip so the sauce side is down
- Brush on the sauce on the other side and flip over once the other side is lightly charred
- Char both sides to your liking (be careful to not burn the onigiri)
- Repeat process 2 times
- Serve hot and enjoy!
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