Easy Japanese Tuna Onigiri Recipe
We’ve made this Japanese Onigiri tuna mayo recipe easy and straightforward for you to follow, all you need is 6 ingredients, canned tuna, rice, cheese, mayonnaise, and nori seaweed..that’s it!
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
Course Appetizer, Lunch
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 4 people
Calories 80 kcal
- 2 cups of rice
- 2 tablespoon feta cheese crumbled
- 350 gr of tuna canned
- 50 gr of cheese
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise or Japanese Mayonnaise
- 1 nori seaweed
First cook the rice in a pot with water until the water evaporates and rice is fully cooked. You can use a rice cooker as well.
While the rice is cooking, we cut the nori seaweed in half.
Combine the tuna, mayo and feta cheese, and mix togther.
Shape small balls with the rice and stretch them over our hand.
Fill the center with the tuna filling and close the into a ball shape. Add more rice to seal the ball if needed.
Then finally shape it into a trangle and wrap the Onigiri with seaweed.
Enjoy!
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