Put these in a lunch box, put these in a picnic or just put these on the kitchen table, they'll be gone before you know it. Served with bowls of miso soup and a green salad, they make a nourishing, healthy lunch.
250g / 9 oz cooked Japanese rice
2 heap tsp flaked tuna (from a can)
2 tsp mayonnaise
1/2 tsp salt
2 X 3cm/1.5 in strips of nori from a nori sheet
some cling film
first, make the tuna mayo. mix 2 heaped tsps of flaked tuna and 2 tsp of mayo in a small bowl, then set aside
cut a square of cling film slighly bigger than the size of a dessert plate
spoon out half of the rice onto the clingfilm. then sprinkle with 1/4 tsp of salt
next place 1/2 of the tuna mayo into the centre of the rice
take the rice in the cling film into the palm of one hand. using your other hand, fold the rice over to cover the tuna mayo. form the rice into a ball, then use your hands to mould the rice ball into a triangular shape, before unwrapping
repeat for another onigiri #2
just before you eat, wrap the nori strip around the onigiri